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Lab M and Labema Oy Celebrate a 20 Year Partnership
Lab M is celebrating 20 years with Finnish partners, Labema Oy, (Kerava Finland), having successfully brought microbiological diagnostic products and dehydrated culture media to laboratories across Finland and Estonia.
Colin LeGood, Lab M’s Sales & Marketing Manager, said, “Our partnership with Labema has been fundamental to Lab M sales in northern and eastern Europe. Labema is a family company and well known for its personal but highly professional approach, which sits well with Lab M’s own business ideals. The past two decades have seen Labema expand its business from Finland, across Estonia and into Russia and beyond.
We look forward to helping the company build on that success in future.”
Juhana Riskala, Labema Oy’s Managing Director, said, “Labema’s reputation is built upon the quality and reliability of the products we bring to our customers. Lab M is one of our major suppliers and is well known for its excellent ranges of microbiological culture media and the standards it maintains. Its chromogenic media range, for instance, is a fine testament to the expertise that Lab M brings to the industry.”
Veronica Ponnuthurai, Export Sales Manager, Lab M; Juhana Riskala, Managing Director, Labema Oy; Leah Keay (back), Customer Services Manager, Lab M; Maija Riskala, retiring Managing Director, Labema Oy; Colin LeGood (back), Sales & Marketing Manager, Lab M; Colin Goodwille, Chairman, Lab M.
Founded in 1989, Labema Oy established a relationship with Lab M early in its history. Since then, the partnership has gone from strength to strength.
TO FIND OUT MORE CIRCLE NO. 556 Device for on the Spot Blood Analysis
A hand-held device which could offer point-of-care blood cell analysis in doctors’ surgeries is being developed by academics at the University of Southampton.
A team led by Professor Hywel Morgan at the University’s Nano Research Group within the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) in conjunction with Professor Donna Davies and Dr Judith Holloway at the School of Medicine, has developed a microfluidic single-cell impedance cytometer that performs a white cell differential count. The system, developed in collaboration with Philips Research, can identify the three main types of white blood cells -T lymphocytes, monocytes and neutrophils
- and is said to be faster and
cheaper than current methods. According to Dr David Holmes at ECS, one of the
authors of the paper, the microfluidic set up uses miniaturised electrodes inside a small channel. The electrical properties of each blood cell are measured as the blood flows through the device. From these measurements it is possible to distinguish and count the different types of cell, providing information used in the diagnosis of numerous diseases.
Professor Morgan added: “At the moment if an individual goes to the doctor complaining of feeling unwell, a blood test will be taken which will need to be sent away to the lab while the patient awaits the results. Our new prototype device may allow point of care cell analysis which aids the GP in diagnosing acute diseases while the patient is with the GP, so a treatment strategy may be devised immediately. Our method requires only that the red blood cells are removed
from the sample, which takes just eight seconds.” The next step for the team is to integrate the red blood cell removal step into the device. Their ultimate aim is to produce a handheld device which would be available for about £1,000 which could use disposable chips costing just a few pence each.
Devices such as these will be fabricated in the Southampton Nanofabrication Centre, which opened on 9 September and will make smaller, more powerful nano- and bio-nanotechnologies possible and save industry time and money.
The device is described in a paper in Advance Articles in Lab on a Chip this month and can be accessed at:
www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/LC/article.asp?doi =b910053a
TO FIND OUT MORE CIRCLE NO. 557 Hayward Tyler Celebrate 50 Years
for industries such as chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, food and dairy and beverage and breweries. The company has also recently won prestigious contracts for the nuclear industry.
Hayward Tyler Fluid Handling, a division of the Hayward Tyler Group, is celebrating 50 years of business in the design and manufacture of canned motor pumps. Established in 1959 in East Kilbride, Scotland, by Jock Craig to manufacture ceramic lined pumps, the Company has grown steadily, supplying specialist agitators and pumps
The success of the business has been attributed to a number of factors in addition to their niche- engineered products. These include the manufacturing plant capabilities, quality and environmental management systems and certification. Primarily however the success of the business was said to be down to its people, its greatest asset. A combination of long servers and fresh faces, including new craft apprentices, give a combined service of over 250 years. To complement the team further investment has recently been made in machine tools, expansion of the offices and improved IT systems. Paul
Noble, Managing Director of Fluid Handling, stated: “Our golden jubilee is not just a celebration of the past but more importantly of the future. We have a fantastic heritage and this, along with our ability to design and build mission critical long life equipment, places us in a strong position to continue as a specialised engineering business for the next 50 years.”
Hayward Tyler Group itself is one of the oldest engineering companies in the UK. In 2008 the company celebrated 100 years of submersible pump technology and shipped the world’s largest subsea motor.
The Group also has also
recently received two awards for its business activities in China, one for Product Innovation and Service and the other for UK Exporter of the Year.
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Impact Wins Scottish
Government SMART Award
Impact Laboratories has won a Scottish Government SMART award that will investigate the use of varied waste materials in the development of a fibre/plastic composite material for commercial use.
Impact, the Grangemouth BP Chemicals spin off, has a wealth of polymer and plastics-based knowledge that has put the company in pole position to pioneer this research and development in plastics waste management.
Rob Meek, Impact CEO said that, “The new sciences of environmental and sustainable materials are a very important part of what we do here at Impact: We all use plastic – day to day – and the time for its effective and responsible waste management is now. This new SMART award gives us a pioneering role in helping to make mixed plastics recycling really happen. If successful, it will open up doors and markets for the materials and for recycling technology worldwide.”
Impact’s new SMART-funded research will help create new and value-added products from the unsorted consumer waste stream. Leading applications are likely to be in the timber-replacement markets where such composites can be seen as an alternative to traditional timber – particularly in non- structural applications such as decking and in other all-weather conditions such as marinas developments.
Dr Ian Vallance at Impact will lead the project. He said: “We are naturally excited about getting set to unlock the potential in waste plastics and natural fibre. New mass treatment technologies are being introduced to deal with unsorted domestic waste and these, combined with automated sorting technologies, will produce huge volumes of sorted waste streams on a previously unprecedented scale. Impact will aim to develop uses for products that have previously been too difficult to recycle – thus saving them from landfill.”
Developing markets for these second use materials is critical. Vallance pointed out: “The key factor for their success is the effective pricing of this new product against traditional timber. Despite having an all-weathering advantage for outdoor applications the composite must be cost- competitive with currently available alternatives in order for this work to succeed.”
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