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Corporate Capabilities ADVERTORIAL Integra Biosciences I A Leading Provider of High-Quality Laboratory Tools for Liquid Handling and Media Preparation ntegra is a leading provider of high-quality laboratory tools for liquid handling and media preparation. We are committed to creating innovative solutions that fulfill the needs of our customers in research, diagnos- tics, and quality control within the life science markets and medical industry. Headquartered in Zizers, Switzerland, and Hudson, NH, USA, Integra maintains a direct sales organization in the United States and a worldwide network of over 90 distribution partners. With many years of experience and exper- tise in laboratory equipment sales, marketing, engineering and manufacturing, Integra strives to maintain close cooperation with customers worldwide to provide cutting-edge solutions to help organizations solve their analytical challenges. Based upon their high quality and top perfor- mance, Integra products have achieved an out- standing reputation worldwide. These include well-known benchmark products, such as the VACUSAFE vacuum aspiration system, DOSE IT programmable peristaltic pump, MEDI- ACLAVE and MEDIAJET media-preparation equipment as well as the FIREBOY and FL- AMEBOY safety Bunsen burners. In 2009 the product range was extended through the addi- tion of the VIAFLO line of innovative liquid- handling instruments and disposable plastic- ware. Integra's range of liquid handling tools today includes a complete range of handheld pi- INTEGRA Biosciences Hudson, NH, USA Zizers, Switzerland Phone 603.578.5800 Website www.integra-biosciences. com Date Founded 1965 Number of Employees 100 petting systems offering accurate liquid handling from 0.5µL to 100mL. Proven in over 200,000 installations world- wide the PIPETBOY pipettor range sets a high benchmark for ease-of-use, reliability, build quality, performance, and operational safety. Each PIPETBOY pipettor can be used with plas- tic or glass pipettes with volumes of 1–100 mL. Precise and reliable pipetting is simply achieved by applying varying finger pressure to the oper- ating buttons and by adjusting the pump speed. The PIPETBOY is powered by a high-perfor- mance NiMH battery that alerts you when it needs recharging. To avoid internal contamina- tion a hydrophobic filter blocks accidentally as- pirated liquids before entering the pipettor. The PIPETBOY comes in several different colors that you can assign to a particular application, user, etc. thereby avoiding mix-ups. Perfectly complimenting these products, In- tegra is also able to offer the complete range of VIAFLO handheld electronic pipettors. The VOYAGER range of handheld 8- and 12-chan- nel electronic pipettors have been designed to in- crease the productivity of liquid sample transfers for a fraction of the cost of a common liquid- handling system. Based upon a proprietary, mo- torized, adjustable spacing design—VOYAGER pipettors eliminate cross contamination and ensure consistent, accurate, and extraordinarily fast delivery of liquids to target vessels with a different spacing than the row of starting ves- sels. Offering accurate high productivity parallel pipetting from 0.5µL to 1250µL, VOYAGER pipettors are the perfect liquid-handling tool for applications including sample reformatting, PCR reaction set-up, ELISA sample transfers and Taqman assay set-up. Within recent years, Integra has introduced many new innovative products including the VIAFLO 96, the VIAFILL, and the VACUSIP. The VIAFLO 96 is an exciting, new 96-chan- nel handheld electronic pipette that enables fast, precise, and easy simultaneous transfer of 96 samples. The VIAFLO 96 has been designed to be used just like a standard handheld pipette. Therefore, no special skills or training are re- quired to operate it. The VIAFLO 96 features the company's popular Touch Wheel™ pipette user interface enabling simple and fast programming of a wide range of pipetting modes including re- peat dispense, serial dilute, and sample dilute. The VIAFILL takes the standard bulk reagent dispenser and turns it into a multipurpose liquid- handling instrument. In addition to the tradi- tional dispense cassettes, you can use disposable pipette tips to precisely aspirate and dispense re- agents. In addition, extra modules allow dispens- ing of cells, plate washing, serial dilutions, and the stacking of up to 50 plates. The new VACUSIP is an out-of-box vacuum aspiration solution for the wide array of liquid waste disposal tasks carried out at the laboratory bench. Occupying a small benchtop footprint, the VACUSIP pro- vides an optimized solution for ap- plications includ- ing the aspiration of small volumes of liquid, such as supernatants af- ter centrifugation steps, removal of washing solutions and multichannel removal of sample from multiwell mi- croplates. To learn more about Integra's ex- citing range of in- novative products and to find your local specialist sup- plier please visit www.integra-bio sciences.com. Q 74 | October 1, 2012 | genengnews.com | Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News