Devices for Automated Tube Identification, Decapping, and Recapping

Hamilton Storage Technologies introduces the LabElite line of benchtop devices, providing laboratories with flexible solutions for sample processing, tracking, and security. The LabElite I.D. Reader is designed for manual workflows that need high-speed 2-D barcode reading of tube racks. It decodes tubes in all common 12-, 24-, 48-, 96- and 384-tube racks including honeycomb-shaped racks. The LabElite DeCapper can decap and recap tubes in 48-cryovial or 96-microtube racks in portrait or landscape formats, one row at a time, to minimize the time tubes are open and eliminate the risk of cross-contamination. Rows can be paused for “point-of-use” manual pipetting. The all-in-one LabElite I.D. Capper combines decapping and recapping and high-speed barcode reading in one small device. The I.D. Capper includes all of the standard features and benefits of the I.D. Reader and DeCapper.

Hamilton Storage Technologies, 508-544-7000, www.hamilton-storage.com