Life Sciences
SKEANS provides numerous products and application solutions for the life sciences industry. We know this is an ever-changing and evolving industry that requires various Rotating Equipment, Pneumatic Automation, and Electric automation solutions. From cleanroom applications to medicine production, SKEANS offers numerous products such as vacuums, compressed air/liquid/gas distribution, MAC Valves, plastic tubing & fittings, safety products, precision actuators, and washdown rated sensors.
Additionally, we have other Electric Automation applications, such as cleanroom safe robots for sample testing and remotely operated robots for a variety of applications.
Solutions for Test-Kits
They provide an extensive spectrum of solutions that supports collecting and processing of test kits, such as COVID-19 test kit, plasmid prep kit, or DNA sample prep. Being at the forefront of testing, they support medical and lab workers, with high-precision liquid handling products. A flagship one is the world best-selling semi-disposable mini pipettes, which are the ideal solution for liquid handling solutions in test kits.
Once the test samples are collected and in the lab, they step in. Zinsser Analytics and TriContinent provide an ample range of lab solutions and lab consumables to process the in vitro diagnostics efficiently and quickly.
To optimize application and storage of proper reagents laboratories equip their workers with high-durable Qualydrops® Dropper Bottles from Zinsser Analytic. They consist of LDPE and are very popular because of their equal drop size and tightness due to a specially designed bottle neck.
Apart from those, they provide Polyvials® sample containers that reduce the danger of errors in the laboratory and leakage during transport. These plastic sample containers are absolutely light tight, made from natural or black pigmented HDPE and come with a pallet of various volumes from 4 ml to 250 ml and color-coded caps.
Once the prep kits samples are placed in the filtration manifolds, a heavy-duty and efficient vacuum source is required to generate the desired atmosphere. Welch provide both a standalone diaphragm vacuum pump as well as an OEM pump that’s a market-proven solution.
Welch provides a range of vacuum sources for rotary evaporators and Schlenk Lines that are used in such RNA fluorescence tech development. Their fast-track delivery and high quality vacuum pumps support the manufacturers of fluorescent dyes used in test kits for RNA imaging.
Solutions for Diagnostic Instruments, Lab Automation and Drug Research
Diagnostics and prevention goes in pair into the spotlight of fighting against the spread of the COVID-19 and other diseases. Performing necessary tests as well as finding a vaccine go hand to hand with necessary analytical and laboratory equipment.
That’s why pharmaceutical companies turn to Gardner Denver for liquid handling robots, syringe pumps, lab automation solutions, or other lab equipment. They are your partner in a complementary portfolio of lab testing equipment, able to meet your strictest requirements.
They are your trusted one-stop-shop for solutions that starts from the collection and processing of the tests, through the extensive drug research, DNA sequencing up to clinical trials and ending on the pharmaceutical manufacturing. We are here to provide a perfectly matched solution for your needs.
Compressors and Vacuum Pumps for the Pharmaceutical Industry
In this critical time, Gardner Denver is working with the pharmaceutical sector to ensure their compressed air and vacuum needs are met with the provision of state-of-art clean and reliable compressors and vacuum pumps. Their products cater for a wide range of pharmaceutical applications, adhering to all industry standards and are known globally for their superior quality and reliability.
Designed and developed with Pharmaceutical Manufacturers to ensure we provide compressed air and vacuum solutions that meet their requirements for process control, efficiency and productivity.
Pharmaceutical Compressors
CompAir’s PureAir compressors provide the highest standard of compressed air for pharmaceutical applications. CompAir offer the widest range of oil-free compressors and accessories to suit all specifications and air demands.
The Ultima compressors are 100% oil and silicone-free and meet ISO 8573-1 Class Zero (2010), making them the ideal choice for stringent oil-free applications within the pharmaceutical sector. They’re a crucial element for providing process air used in direct contact with products for cleaning, aeration and product moving, convey belts and flow systems in pharmaceutical packaging and manufacturing.
Ultima compressors are the most energy efficient oil-free compressors in the market today. These unique variable speed compressors are available as air and water cooled versions and are fully upgradable from 75 to 160 kW. The compact design requires 37% less floor space than traditional technologies in this class.
Pharmaceutical Vacuum Pumps
Elmo Rietschle provides industry leading vacuum pumps and blowers for a range of low pressure and vacuum applications including vacuum and pneumatic conveying. They also supply a range of vacuum solutions, both central vacuum systems and point of use pumps for pharmaceutical packaging machines.
Elmo Rietschle’s range of oil lubricated and dry running vacuum pumps ensure the manufacturing atmosphere is aseptic and contamination-free. Vacuum pumps for packaging enable evacuation of the air, keeping the packaged goods contamination free and hygiene at the highest level.
Elmo Rietschle’s side-channel blowers are also recognizable by their low-noise and low-maintenance design. They are equipped with mechanical pressure, and volume flow for smart and flexible control for greater efficiency and process optimization.
Air driven medical tools
Compressed air is used for apparatus and equipment in sensitive areas where electrically driven equipment would interferer with sensitive medical equipment.
Air separation
Compressed air is filtered via a membrane to generate clean gases medical.
Breathing air
Air filtration is used to provide breathing and respiratory quality air.
Dentists
Compressed air is used to operate precision easy to handle dental tools which need to be compact and very light.
Laboratory applications
Compressed air is used for instrumentation demands in ships.
Sterilization equipment
Clean filtered air is used for drying and handling of sterilized equipment.
Air beds
Air beds are used for bed-ridden patients at risk for bedsores (decubitus ulcer). The use of air can bring about a distinct improvement in patients. Skin can dry and heal better if an air-permeable mattress is used. At the same time, inflating individual air chambers while deflating others varies the pressure on the skin, thus helping prevent bedsores. Through selective raising and lowering of different areas, air beds can also help position the patient for treatment and personal care.
Central vacuum systems
Central vacuum systems are used in hospitals and ambulant surgical centres to draw off liquids occurring during the surgeries. A separator is installed in the operating room to separate fine particles from the larger ones. If the operating room is too small, the vacuum system can alternatively also be installed remotely.
Chair lift
The cushion can be lifted with the help of compressed air to make it easier for older patients to stand up. Chairlifts also help the nursing staff to provide optimal treatment.
Dentistry
Central vacuum systems are used in hospitals and ambulant surgical centres to draw off liquids occurring during the surgeries. A separator is installed in the operating room to separate fine particles from the larger ones. If the operating room is too small, the vacuum system can alternatively also be installed remotely.
Respiratory devices
Side channel blowers are used in portable or half stationary respiratory devices. In the medical part, e.g. for chronic pulmonary disease, the patience is supported at breathing. In the technical part side channel blowers are used in respirators. The advantages in both applications are the long life-time as well as the robust design.
Sterilizing
In a steam sterilizer the hot, saturated steam is condensed when coming into contact with the cooler object to be sterilized, which absorbs the heat released. This leads to the denaturation of the germs, the molecular structure of their protein being destroyed. Although dry heat can be used for sterilization as well, humid steam is more suitable for this application because the process then requires a lower temperature and shorter sterilization time.
The sterilization process is determined by both biochemical and physical parameters, the efficacy of which can be determined with the help of experiments, i.e. by comparing the number of germs before and after the sterilization process.
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Medical Industry Solutions
MAC Valves, Inc. is a global leader in pneumatic products and solutions. Their standard products and specially modified solutions offer distinct advantages for applications in the Medical Industry. With complete technical solutions manufacture increased reliability, equipment optimization and innovative designs.
MAC’s product designs offer technical advantages for the following medical applications: Oxygen Concentrators, Massage Therapy, Therapeutics, Healing Aid, and Hospital Beds. The most common types of valves used are Small 3-way, Small 4-way, Bullet® Valve, and Proportional Pressure Controls Valves (PPC).
The development of medical technologies is one of the largest growing industries in the world, demanding innovative and proven reliability. Solenoid valves are essential in many facets of health care including hospital room applications, home care devices and physical therapy. Mobility, packaging and low noise functionality are also crucial factors.
Some of their benefits include:
1. Standard and custom solutions available for your most demanding pneumatic medical applications
2. Energy efficient and low noise compact solutions for hospital and personal home care
3. High flow, repeatability and oxygen compatible with extremely low leak rates
Bioprocessing
For pharmaceutical manufacturers, it can be just as hard to keep up with demand as it is to keep up with the highly competitive market. Now you can do both with easy-to-use single-use bioprocessing connectors from CPC. They help maintain flow path sterility and integrity while enabling you to improve production yields, decrease time-to-market and reduce costs. Designed for bioprocessing continuous manufacturing, our genderless sterile connectors simplify process integration, maximize flexibility and streamline your supply chain efficiencies.
Medical Manufacturing Equipment
PHD offers FDA-approved standard and unique components with high-precision, compact designs for manufacturing syringes, tubing, IV bags, lab testing, pharmacy, orthopedics, and more for hospitals, laboratories, and pharmaceutical markets. Such as:
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COLLABORATIVE ROBOTS IN MEDICAL & COSMETICS
As medical and cosmetic product lifecycles shrink, collaborative automation provides manufacturing agility. Robot arms from Universal Robots can be used to maximize output and ensure consistent quality—and then can be quickly redeployed for new product lines. Cobots are used throughout the industry to tend machines and conveyors; precisely assemble devices and products; and kit and package items into blister packs, cartons, or pallets.
Cobots help you reduce the risk of human contamination in sensitive processes and clean environments. UR collaborative robot arms can be used for sterile, precise handling and assembly of medical devices or implants. Robots can also relieve workers from material handling jobs in dusty, loud, and high-vibration operations, allowing them to move to higher-value tasks. And with UR+ certified vision systems, cobots can perform detailed quality inspections.
With easy deployment, robot set-up for medical and cosmetic applications is typically measured in hours or days, not weeks. Lightweight cobot arms can be easily moved from one process to another on mobile carts, and a single robot can often tend multiple machines.
Sensor solutions for laboratory automation
There are three things that are expected of sensor solutions in laboratory automation: reliability, safety and user-friendliness.
It is not without reason that the safety requirements for in-vitro diagnostics are especially high: this lab work involves human samples. Extremely strict specifications apply here and there is no tolerance for error. This also places high demands on the used camera-based 1D- and 2D-code readers of the DCR 50 and DCR 200i series, for example. With their sophisticated design and special optics they combine the factors of speed, reliability, safety and a user-friendliness that helps to pre-emptively minimize the risk of errors.
Sensor solutions for pre-analytic instruments
To ensure the sample integrity as well as for hygiene and safety reasons, automatic sample distributors are used increasingly in the preparation of the analyses. These ensure reliable and fast preparation and assignment of the chaotically delivered samples independent of the number of samples and, above all, avoid cross contamination. Thanks to high function reserves, our sensor solutions guarantee maximum system availability during analysis preparation.
Sensor solutions for IVD analyzers
Modern analysis procedures for examining body fluids or tissue are now highly automated, thereby allowing processes to be performed very efficiently and safely. Zero tolerance is essential here both during the handling as well as during the assignment of samples to the patient. The sensors that are used must, therefore, reliably master high throughputs and be extremely compact so as to minimize space requirements in the systems.
Sensor solutions for automation modules
For complex analyses, samples need to be transported between various machines. This networking of the analyzers is increasingly being performed with compact, mini conveying belts and handling robots. The individual parts must be moved quickly, safely and reliably here and, prior to the subsequent analysis steps, also be detected and assigned without error. Furthermore, gapless traceability of the sampling path must be ensured. Sensors make sample transport more reliable and minimize the risk of standstills in the analyzers which could, among other things, jeopardize the sample integrity.
Sensor solutions for post-analytic instruments
Particularly when storing samples, dependable closure is extremely important for eliminating the possibility of subsequent contamination. In some cases, the storage is performed in deep-freeze conditions at temperatures at – 80°C, at which the sensor technology must continue to detect reliably. In addition, sensors ensure the traceability of the samples all the way to their storage location. Even after the actual analysis, sensors continue to make the processes faster and more reliable.
Medical Applications
Imaging equipment
Ewellix’s in-depth technical know-how makes linear and rotary imaging systems more robust, reliable and ergonomic, covering virtually all imaging technologies including CT, SPECT, PET, MRT, radiography, mammography, mobile imaging C-arms and standard X-ray applications as well as oncology treatment devices. We observe all relevant regulations and standards and design our medical technology products in accordance with UL/IEC 60601.
Medical regulations and norms are well respected and their medical industry products are built according UL IEC 60601 standards.
Laboratory automation equipment
The expertise of Ewellix is tested in clinical laboratories worldwide. Among other things, they provide simpler workflows, optimised processes and more reliable analyses. Ewellix’s proven and precise linear high-speed systems form the basis for laboratory-wide automation, from robotic workstations to analytical devices for clinical chemistry as well as immune and blood testing.
Surgical equipment
Surgical systems today must not only work more efficiently, but also offer ever increasing levels of performance. Ewellix offers safe and reliable electric drive solutions and linear guides that are specifically designed for operating tables and treatment chairs. Our electrical components (actuators, lifting columns and control units) are UL-certified and can not only be easily installed, but also guarantee significantly superior hygiene compared to conventional hydraulic systems. The robust construction of our products ensures maximum protection against overloading and operating errors.
Life support equipment
Ewellix supports patients, nursing staff and designers alike. From incubators to ventilators to injectors: Their solutions make life support systems safer, more reliable and ergonomically sound.
Our focus on product safety and quality stretches from concept to product launch. We support design teams in integrating our products into prototype clinical trials. In addition, we ensure comprehensive system testing before series production begins.
Dental equipment
Greater ergonomics for the dentist. More comfort for the patient. Ewellix solutions make it possible to achieve both while maintaining the highest standards of hygiene.
Our expertise in dental equipment ranges from chairs and tables to dental X-ray units and prosthesis milling cutters. Ewellix enhances the overall performance of your products regardless of the specific requirements. Our wide range of linear guides, ball screws and electro-mechanical actuators makes both standard and individual solutions reliable and durable.
Ophthalmic equipment
Ewellix solutions provide ophthalmologists with the highest levels of comfort, ergonomics, reliability and treatment quality.
Ewellix has extensive experience in the development of a wide range of ophthalmic devices, including chairs and tables, examination systems, lens grinders, etc. We support you in planning your design solution, regardless of the type of linear motion you require.
Hospital care equipment
Hospital authorities need treatment units that are safe, robust and reliable enough to deliver the desired long-term performance. Both nurses and patients value user-friendly and ergonomic devices that provide the highest level of care and comfort.
Ewellix supports designers in the development of treatment units that satisfy every need. Their extensive range of drive systems and accessories is already used in numerous applications, from adjustable beds and stretchers to examination tables and patient lifts.
Fitness and rehabilitation equipment
Ewellix supports the medical industry in the development of rehabilitation devices that can be adapted better to suit body sizes, therapy goals and market requirements. Their products provide designers with a variety of solutions to optimise functionality and reliability for physiotherapists and patients alike. Our extensive range of drive systems and linear guides are suitable for a wide variety of rehabilitation applications.
Lab Testing Equipment
Medical Air and Vaccum Solutions
ISO air quality 8573-1 Standards (GD air quality brouchure)
– MAC Valves Oxygen Concentrator, Micro-dosing, Dialysis Equipment, and Aircast Cold Therapy
– Colder Products Bioprocessing
– PHD Medical Manufacturing Equipment
– Bimba Medical Applications
