18 Innovative clean bench advances laminar flow technology


The Nexus Horizontal Clean Bench from Labconco Corporation is a ground-breaking addition to its product line-up and the first of its kind to incorporate complete onboard intelligence. This innovative laminar flow workstation sets a new benchmark in the industry, providing unparalleled protection against contamination for non-hazardous samples and processes.


Representing a significant leap forward in clean bench technology, the Nexus offers a host of features that are unmatched in the market. It is driven by the Nexus OS, a powerful and user-friendly operating system featuring a 5” touchscreen display. This interface provides clear system information, facilitates data logging and traceability, and allows for ethernet connectivity and user customisation, enhancing the overall user experience. Moreover, it establishes an ISO Class 4 clean air working environment, safeguarding the integrity of sensitive samples and processes.


Nexus clean benches utilise efficient ECM blowers regulated by Labconco’s exclusive Constant Airflow Profile (CAP™) technology. This ensures consistent airflow, even as the HEPA filter loads, providing unmatched precision and performance in laminar flow. Additionally, the ECM blower operates quietly and consumes minimal energy, making it an environmentally friendly choice with minimal impact on the lab or cleanroom environment.


Elizabeth Dille, PhD, Labconco’s Product Manager of Biosafety Products, emphasised the significance of the Nexus in advancing laminar flow technology for sterile compounding and laboratory sample manipulation. She highlighted the Nexus’s unique CAP technology, user-friendly interface, and disinfection-focused construction, setting a new standard for laminar airflow workstations and ensuring total protection for contamination-sensitive processes.


Constructed with durable materials such as stainless steel, the Nexus is designed for easy disinfection, both inside and out, ensuring optimal cleanliness and reducing the risk of cross-contamination in critical environments. Tailored to meet the stringent demands of pharmaceutical sites, sterile compounding pharmacies, and life science applications, the Nexus combines cutting-edge technology with exceptional reliability. With its reliable protection, intelligent interface, and efficient laminar airflow, the Nexus emerges as the ultimate solution for clean and sterile applications.


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Compact top loading autoclave for labs with limited space


The superior load capability of the Priorclave QCS range of top loading autoclaves and proven reliability coupled with space-saving features will appeal to laboratory managers in diverse industrial sectors such as food, drink, dairy, pharmaceutical, agricultural, education, healthcare as well as dedicated research establishments.


The compact design and operational flexibility of one of the newer models, the BASE EV100 autoclave, allows full programmable cycle customisation and has media warming, integrated cooling and freesteaming systems as well as drain protection.


These standard features make this top lading autoclave ideal for sterilising applications such as media preparation, handling waste loads, glassware instruments and open containers and labware. The vertical sterilising chamber, 500mm diameters and 500mm depth, is also large enough to accommodate the tallest flasks, fermentors, and bioreactors.


Access to the sterilising chamber is via a patented Quickseal single-action door opening/closing system which provides safe and secure one-handed operation. Lab staff safety is paramount therefore Priorclave has created a door system that incorporates thermal and pressure locks, prevent opening at elevated load temperature above 80ºC and pressures above 0.2bar.


Sterilising parameters are programmed easily through the Tactrol® 3 controller, allowing for adjustment of temperature and time for simple cycles to fully featured multi-programme operation. This powerful controller gives unrivalled flexibility, monitoring, and management of the process cycle for greater sterilising efficiency.


During autoclave manufacture, Priorclave incorporate an anti-bacterial epoxy coating to the panels and frame. Highly effective and a permanent treatment for control of harmful bacteria, it makes surfaces cleaner, more hygienic and provides durable lifelong protection against the threat of cross contamination. The epoxy finish is proven to reduce bacterial growth by up to 99.99% and is highly effective against MRSA, E.coli, Listeria, Legionella, Campylobacter, Salmonella, Pseudomonas and over 50 other species.


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The new LabTech MVP Line of Automatic Vacuum Concentrators represents the ultimate solution to achieve high throughput automatic evaporation of liquid samples through vacuum, heating, and rotation. It improves work efficiency and sample recovery, reduces human errors, and enhances the accuracy of analysis.


Vacuum concentrators are widely used for the preparation of environmental samples, natural products, food and agricultural product samples, and heat- sensitive products. Particularly efficient is our model Flex-MVP as allows to add or remove a single sample at any time, without affecting the concentration process of other samples. In this way, flexibility of concentration process is guaranteed. The evaporation efficiency is also improved by the fact that the whole sample vial is fully immersed and heated in the water bath, which is not exposed in the air. To guarantee total safety, each sample vessel is sealed and discharged independently through its own pipeline, avoiding liquid transfer issues caused by sample boiling, preventing cross-contamination and refluxing. The complete package includes a dual condenser tower design that enables dual recovery of solvent vapor and exhaust gas, ensuring comprehensive environmental friendliness. Together with LabTech chillers, the MVP Line with its 3 models (Flex-MVP, MVP12 and MVP48) represents the perfect solution for your laboratory concentrations.


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In the pursuit of sustainability, the oil, gas, and energy industries are embracing innovation to foster an energy-efficient future. Significant transformations are underway, marked by the adoption of sustainable practices and the exploration of new revenue streams, driving success within the oil and gas sector. Venturing into renewable energy, advanced chemicals, and biofuels is steering the industry towards diversification and pioneering solutions.


Titan Enterprises plays a pivotal role in this landscape, offering optimised and tailored liquid flow measurement solutions for oil, petrochemical, and green energy applications, catering to OEM customers. The company’s contributions span bespoke oval gear flow meters for marine fuel flow measurement, monitoring grease volume in wind turbine bearing mechanisms, high-pressure intrinsically safe units for offshore oil drilling additive injection, and solutions for biodiesel plants converting bio waste into sustainable biofuels.


Ensuring the reliable and efficient operation of wind turbines, Titan’s compact oval gear flowmeters, fully compliant with IP65/NEMA 4 standards, are designed to measure the flow of viscous liquids. Operating at pressures up to 700 bar and temperatures up to 150°C, these flowmeters achieve outstanding accuracy (0.75%) and repeatability (0.1%) in diverse conditions.


In the realm of biofuel production, Titan’s Oval Gear (OG) flow meters are integral to Green Fuels’ biodiesel plants. These plants, converting bio waste into sustainable biofuels, rely on Titan’s accurate, chemically resistant OG flow meters for precise chemical dosing in potentially hazardous environments.


For petrochemical applications, Titan Enterprises offers specialised oval gear flow sensors, catering to high-pressure requirements, chemical compatibility, and safe operation in potentially explosive atmospheres. These flow meters, including ATEX compliant IP65/NEMA 4 protection models, play a crucial role in chemical injection systems within the petrochemical sector, ensuring precise liquid dosage for efficient and economical process operations.


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