Automated Decapper Designed for Screw Cap Sample Storage Tubes

An automated decapper is a compact, automated instrument for the opening and closing of screw-capped tubes (0.5 mL - 1.4 mL).

With the ScrewCap DeCapper, Hamilton Co. (Reno, NV,USA) and Micronic Europe BV (Lelystad, The Netherlands) are partnering to provide a new benchtop automated solution for the sample storage market. Hamilton has chosen Micronic as their European partner for selling benchtop equipment for storage of biological materials such as DNA, cells, blood, tissue, and plant materials, as well as compound library storage in drug discovery research.

The programmable ScrewCap DeCapper opens a row of 12 tubes simultaneously, increasing productivity over one-at-a-time methods and providing more flexibility than systems that decap 96 tubes at once. Decapping or recapping of a complete rack of 96 screw-capped tubes takes less than one minute.

Many quality and safety functions have been designed into the Micronic ScrewCap DeCapper. The instrument operates from outside to inside rows, eliminating the possibility of drip contamination that can occur with the 96-tube decappers. Built-in torque monitoring ensures a consistent seal and reports the exact location in the event a tube is not completely sealed. After removal, the caps are placed on a separate, removable cap holder, which enables batch processing. The ScrewCap DeCapper can operate as a standalone system or it can be simply integrated with most commercial automated pipetting workstations.

Focused on the design and production of sample storage tubes, accessories, and instruments, Micronic offers laboratories the expert advice to help them safeguard one of its most valuable assets--its samples.

Hamilton Company is a global enterprise and a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of manual, semiautomated, and robotic products for precision fluid measuring.

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