Middleton, WI (May 15th, 2012) — Gilson, Inc., an industry leader in purification systems for HPLC, SPE, and GPC clean-up introduces the GX-241 Liquid Handler, the newest liquid handler to join the dependable GX Liquid Handling product line.
The GX-241 Liquid Handler is a compact liquid handler ideally suited for applications and labs where bench space is at a premium. The GX-241 Liquid Handler provides the perfect balance of size, performance, and capabilities. The instrument is being introduced first as a liquid handler and auto-sampler, with additional configurations to follow for injection and collection and solid phase extraction.
“Being able to efficiently and effectively perform required tasks within a limited amount of bench space has become a real concern for many laboratories.” said Atika El Sayed, Chief Executive Officer of Gilson. “The market expressed a need for a small footprint liquid handler with injection and collection capabilities and we listened. The GX-241 was developed to satisfy this request.”
The GX-241 Liquid Handler features a large injection volume range of 1 µL up to 5 mL using a minimal dead volume direct injection design. The liquid handler also features two transfer ports for delivering samples to off-bed detection devices in Flow Injection Applications (FIA). The two rack capacity liquid handler has the ability to hold hundreds of samples ranging from 2 mL vials to 100 mm test tubes. The flexible platform, in addition to tubes and vials, holds up to 4 standard or deep well 96 well microplates.
About Gilson
Gilson, Inc. provides high quality, dependable solutions for today's demanding liquid chromatography, solid phase extraction, gel permeation chromatography clean-up requirements, and manual liquid handling, including the world-renowned PIPETMAN® brand. Gilson has worldwide sales and service supporting the pharmaceutical, biotech, environmental, clinical, food & beverage and forensic markets. Gilson's innovative products revolutionize the lab; providing the durability, flexibility, modularity and ease-of-use the industry has come to expect from Gilson.