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LABORATORY DIVISION


THE BINDING SITE

 

The Binding Site specialises in the research, development and production of immunodiagnostic kits and reagents for use in the investigation of human and veterinary diseases.

History

The origins of the company go back to the early 1960s when antisera was produced to meet the needs of the Immunology Department within Birmingham University Medical School. During the ensuing years, expertise gained from producing highly specific 'clean' antisera was applied across an ever increasing number of specificities until in the early 1980s a commercial immunodiagnostics company was born.

Product Range

The first commercial kit for the measurement of human IgG subclass levels were developed at the Binding Site Laboratories in 1984 and used by researchers around the world to gain a better understanding of the role of IgG subclasses in health and disease. In 1988 the kits were recommended for 'In-Vitro Diagnostic Use' in the USA and The Binding Site moved into the field of Clinical Diagnostics. Over the last 10 years we have expanded and refined our product range and now manufacture over 1000 'clinical' and 'research use' products. We are however, still firmly in touch with our University origins and maintain strong links with academic colleagues both here in Birmingham and throughout the world.

Global

Successful product developments have led to considerable change in recent years. Our products are now being used by Immunologists in over 70 countries and antisera production is no longer measured in millilitres but in thousands of Litres!

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ELAN DIAGNOSTICS

Elan Diagnostics -- An Overview

Elan Diagnostics provides mid-size and small clinical laboratories with instrumentation, reagents and support resources designed for optimum diagnostic productivity and cost-efficiency. Included in Elan's expanding product line is its "flagship" analyzer, the space efficient ATAC 8000 chemistry analyzer, specifically designed for mid to low volume settings with a broad testing menu encompassing lipid, hepatic, electrolyte and metabolic profiles.

Elan Diagnostics' goal is to become the leading supplier of clinical laboratory testing systems to our chosen market segment.

Elan Diagnostics has adopted an aggressive growth strategy which includes internal product development and external technology sourcing to increase our family of products which now include such well known brands as the ATAC line of chemistry and hematology systems, Ves-Matic blood sedimentation measurement instruments, HiChem clinical reagents and Align� calibration and linearity standards.

Elan Diagnostics sells its products exclusively through a network of national and regional distributors supported by a force of more than 30 sales and service representatives who assist distributors and end-users. The company is committed to total distributor support, participating in their marketing programs and special selling campaigns and delivering the highest levels of customer service. Elan's marketing programs are designed to provide maximum support to its distributors and the more than 1,500 sales people employed by them.

Elan Diagnostics is a unit of  Elan Corporation plc (NYSE:ELN), an international specialty pharmaceutical company focused on drug delivery systems, neurology, acute care and the management of pain.

Elan Diagnostics' headquarters is located in Smithfield, Rhode Island, with a distribution and manufacturing facility located in Brea, California.

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THERMO SPECTRONIC

Thermo Spectronic, formerly Spectronic Unicam is a leading manufacturer of UV-Visible spectrophotometers. With two manufacturing facilities in Cambridge, England and Rochester, New York, the company offers a full range of scanning and non-scanning UV-Visible instruments for every lab and every budget including the SPECTRONIC basic range models; the GENESYS and Helios ranges of fully featured, low cost UV-Visible spectrophotometers; and the research grade UV Series line of instruments. Thermo Spectronic also manufactures the AMINCO-Bowman Series II spectrofluorometer, FRENCH Pressure cell disruption equipment, and MINIMatchTM color spectrophotometers. These instruments are used in various markets throughout the world including industrial, life science, education, food and beverage, water and wastewater, pharmaceuticals, petroleum, and biomedical. Thermo Spectronic is a Thermo Electron business.



The Unicam ProGC+ Gas Chromatograph from Thermo ONIX is a robust, high-performance instrument with outstanding hardware, software and automation capabilities. A full range of features and accessories make it ideal for both research grade laboratory GC and for automatic, application-guaranteed analyzer systems.

The ProGC+ column oven provides superior performance in oven heating, cooling and stability. The range of leading-edge injectors with patented design features includes split/splitless, cold on-column, PTV and packed injectors. Full digital pressure or flow control is provided for all carrier and detector gases. The comprehensive range of optimized high-sensitivity detectors includes thermal conductivity, flame ionization, electron capture, and the ultra-trace pulsed discharge ionization detector. All of the ionization detectors are fully interchangeable, sharing a common base body.

Instrument control is exceptionally easy, using the industry-standard user interface, with additional dedicated keys to speed method set-up. The flexible, 90-position autosampler ensures optimum productivity and accuracy of results. ProGC+ comes with fast, powerful Chrom-Card PC software for user-friendly GC control and data handling.

ProGC+ supports an extensive catalogue of application-guaranteed analyzer systems for automatic on-line and at-line analysis. These cover virtually all of the key GC analyzer applications in the natural gas, chemical and petrochemical industries, power generation, high purity industrial and electronics gases and many more. All systems can be enhanced with Unicam ProLink software for at-a-glance results and status display, trend outputs and alarms, and user-definable formats for printing of reports.

With the combination of excellent specification and high quality engineering, UNICAM ProGC+ represents the best performance in laboratory gas chromatography and process analysis available today.

Features

  • Optimized Column Oven with Fast Heating/Cooling Rates       
  • Comprehensive Electronic Gas Controls       
  • Leading-Edge Injector Designs       
  • Interchangeable Ionization Detectors       
  • Industry-Standard User-Interface       
  • High Performance Autosampler       
  • Versatile Valve Automation       
  • Powerful, Flexible GC Software       
  • Outstanding Serviceability       
  • Widest Range of Application-Guaranteed Analyzer Systems

Applications

  • Laboratory Quality Control, Research and Development       
  • Industrial & Electronic Gases (UHP H2, He, O2, N2, Ar, CO2, HCl, HBr, Cl2, BCl3, NF3, WF6 etc.)       
  • Natural Gas by ASTM, GPA, ISO standard methods (e.g., N2, O2, CO2, C1 to C6+ or C1 to C12; Sulfur Odorants)       
  • Petroleum Refining (Refinery Gas, LPG, Capillary PIANO, Oxygenates, SimDis)       
  • Petrochemicals (Trace CO/CO2, Cl2, Formaldehyde, Ethylene, Propylene etc.)       
  • Power Generation (Transformer Oil, Nuclear Reactor Gas)       
  • More Applications in Steel, Chemicals, Environmental, etc.
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INTEGRA BIOSCIENCES

For over 30 years INTEGRA Biosciences has been
developing, manufacturing and supplying a wide range of laboratory systems and materials to bio logical laboratories in industry, research and the universities.
In close cooperation with strategic partners, innovative products are developed and subsequently marketed world-wide along with established brands, and constantly adapted to the changing require ments in the laboratory.
Development and production of our own brands are
according to ISO 9001.

Strategic partners

We are an established international company and cooperate closely with numerous scientific and research institutes. This ensures that we maintain our high level of technical competence and keep up to date with trends in bioscience.

OEM-Products

To complement our own development and production of state-of-the-art instruments, we cater for the special needs of customers with a range of OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing) products; at the same time, our own products are marketed world-wide as "private label" products by other companies.

Quality assurance management

Through effective and certificated quality assurance management, we guarantee the highest degree of quality and safety of our instruments. Since 1994, INTEGRA Biosciences has been certificated according to ISO 9001 and we of course ensure that our cooperation partners work according to the same quality standard.

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GAMBRO BCT

GAMBRO, Blood Components Technology Inc., USA
(Represents Apheresis System for Transfusion Medicine, Therapeutic Apheresis and Stem Cell Therapy.)

COBE BCT (Blood Component Technology) is a worldwide provider of high quality apheresis and speciality cell processing products.

    We serve three market segments with the COBE Spectra Apheresis System and the COBE  2991 Blood Cell Processor, which are:

COBE Spectra

Transfusion Medicine    Leukoreduced Platelets
                                         Plasma
                                         PMN

Therapeutic Apheresis  TPE
                                        RBC Exchange
                                        Lymphoplasma Exchange
                                        Cell Depletions
                                        LDL Apheresis

Stem Cell Therapy          PBSC
                                         Bone Marrow Processing

       Our vision is to provide cost effective implementation of new technology of superior value to our customers so that they can enhance the lives of patients they treat.
Innovations with the COBE Spectra have been individualized donor & patient anticoagulant management, platelet yield prediction, seal sage system and more recently, the Cobe Spectra LRS (LeukoReduction System) providing a platelet product with consistently low WBC levels.
        We have an on-going program to continually improve our products which meet current global regulatory requirements and hope that you will allow us to work with you to build the future of apheresis and blood banking together.

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HETO-HOLTEN


Company Profile

Danish Design & Quality


Heto-Holten A/S is a part of Jouan (France) and is a world leader in laboratory and biotechnology production equipment. Thanks to our unrivalled design and quality we are in a period of rapid expansion covering all aspects from research and development right through to production and marketing

In 1992, as a result of this continual expansion, all departments of the company moved into new premises in Aller�d north of Copenhagen where research, development and production facilities are ideal. In 1994 Heto-Holten A/S was awarded ISO 9001 certification.

One important parameter in our company strategy is to consider environmental issues at the early product development stage. This ensures a cost-effective product meeting the environmental demands of today and the future.

Product Range

Versatile and Visionary Product Range

Heto-Holten's laboratory equipment product range consists of flexible standard products, smaller units specially tailored to customers' needs, and larger industrial units.

The products are marketed by a world-wide network of well-trained Heto-Holten distributors who provide consultative sales support and full after-sales-service.

 

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USF ELGA

ELGA is part of Vivendi Water - the leading global provider of water services and products. For over 45 years we have specialized in providing the most advanced and cost-effective water purification systems for laboratories worldwide. Our approach to laboratory water purification is to manufacture a comprehensive range of equipment, and to offer advice on which unit - or combination of units - is best suited to a particular laboratory's needs. In many cases there is a requirement for a water purification system that provides several different grades of purified water, each one matched to the needs of specific applications. Our culture is totally customer-focused and we are dedicated to working closely with you to provide the very best solutions tailored to your own specific pure water needs.

The ELGA brand is renowned across the globe for excellent quality and reliability. We have built our success on a commitment to quality and customer care, combined with a major emphasis on applied research and development. This has helped us push forward new advances in technologies such as ion exchange, electrical deionization, reverse osmosis and ultrafiltration. The ELGA research and development facilities include the latest analytical instrumentation for measuring ionic and organic impurities and micro-organisms in water.

All this know-how and expertise goes to make ELGA laboratory water purification systems the unbeatable choice for today's laboratories. From glassware washing to molecular biology, they are carefully designed to provide uncompromising water quality in a cost-effective, convenient, and easy to use package.

With a network of over 600 service centers worldwide, we provide unrivalled service and support for our range of pure water systems. Whatever support you require, ELGA's team of water treatment experts will respond quickly to ensure your total satisfaction with our products and services, guaranteed.

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