Frickenhausen, 12 June 2012 - Greiner Bio-One, a leading technology partner for the diagnostic and pharmaceutical industry, will be showcasing two new plates with one and four compartments at ACHEMA 2012. The OneWell Plate is suitable for use in cell culture and bacteriology, whereas the FourWell Plate is ideal for cultivating cells on slides. Both products are conform to the ANSI standards for microplates.
The OneWell Plate is a cell culture dish with a compartment that is particularly suitable for cultivating and analysing bacteria. Its automation-friendly plate format enables automated replication of bacteria colonies. The rectangular shape of the OneWell Plate and the fact that it can be stacked also allows highly efficient use of incubator space. For adherent cell culture, Greiner Bio-One has developed a model whose surface is hydrophilised using physical treatment. With its four individual chambers, the FourWell Plate offers space for four slides, thereby enabling parallel experiments. Cell and tissue samples cultivated on these slides can be supplied with fresh medium quickly and easily and examined directly under a microscope. Semi-circular cavities in the base of each well facilitate slides to be removed using tweezers. Spacers prevent the slides from slipping to the edge of the well and covering these cavities. Both plates, which are made of transparent polystyrene, are sterile and free of detectable pyrogens, human DNA and DNases/RNases. Their external dimensions comply with ANSI microplate standards and the plates can be used with a variety of automated systems. A bevelled edge on lid and dish ensures the lid can only be applied in one direction. The plates can also be used as multi-purpose containers for washing membranes (Southern, Northern and Western blots), for example.
OneWell Plate and FourWell Plate are products of the CELLSTAR® product line from Greiner Bio-One.
Greiner Bio-One at ACHEMA, 18 - 22 June 2012, Frankfurt/Main, Hall 4.1 B67
Greiner Bio-One GmbH - BioScience Division Greiner Bio-One is specialised in the development, production and distribution of plastic laboratory products. The company is a technology partner for universities, research institutes and the diagnostic, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries as well. With the BioScience division, Greiner Bio-One ranks among the leading providers of specialised products for the cultivation and analysis of cell and tissue cultures, as well as microplates for high-throughput screening, allowing industry and research most rapid and efficient drug screening. Additionally Greiner Bio-One develops innovative biochip technologies for genotyping. Under the management of Georg Heftberger, Rainer Perneker and Heinz Schmid, the German headquarters of the BioScience division in Frickenhausen (Baden-Württemberg) controls the whole research and development activities in the product ranges Cell Culture, High-Throughput Screening, Biochips and OEM. Greiner Bio-One GmbH is a division of Greiner Bio-One International AG, based in Kremsmuenster (Austria). Today Greiner Bio-One International AG generates a turnover of 327 million euros. It has over 1,700 employees and operates globally with 20 subsidiaries and numerous distributors in more than 100 countries.
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Greiner Bio-One GmbH
Simone Schafstein & Sylvia Bauer
Maybachstrasse 2
72636 Frickenhausen
Phone: +49 (0) 7022 / 948-0
Fax: +49 (0) 7022 / 948-514
E-mail: [email protected]
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Anja Pätzold
Hohenheimer Strasse 58a
70184 Stuttgart
Phone: +49 (0) 711 / 60707-19
Fax:+49 (0) 711 / 60707-39
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