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- Benchtop Centrifuges
- Floor-Standing Centrifuges
- Refrigerated Centrifuges
- Microcentrifuges
- Multipurpose Centrifuges
- High-Speed Centrifuges
- Ultracentrifuges
- Concentrator
- High-Speed and Ultracentrifugation Consumables
- Centrifuge Tubes
- Centrifuge Plates
- Device Management Software
- Sample and Information Management
Tips to save plastic in the lab
The usage of plasticware in the laboratory is cruical. There are studies stating that the global community of laboratories generates 4 times more waste than an equal area of office space.
Expressed in absolute numbers, they produce approximately 5 million tons of plastic waste annually. The former use of glass-based vessels has now almost completely given way to plastic.
The manufacturing costs, robustness, and purity of plastic-based products argue against the use of glass. In addition, many experiments are nowadays performed on a microliter or nanoliter scale.
For this purpose, vessels and tips with very fine dimensions are required, which cannot technically be manufactured from glass or only at extremely high cost. This means, the use of disposable plastic products in biomedical research laboratories is essential.
Are there ways to reduce the number of used consumables without making a compromise with sample safety, user safety, reproducibility,…?
