York University is
shortly taking delivery of a number of
priorclaves
for use in the Biology Department's Teaching Laboratories and associated
central Wash-Up and sterilising facilities, the third contract to be awarded to
Priorclave by the University in the past 12 months. Although the laboratory equipment supplies
market is extremely competitive, the Operations Manager at York
University specified the Priorclave
brand of autoclaves because of their inherent and proven energy efficiency,
enabling the Department to reduce significantly its day-to-day operational
costs. This was a key factor in changing
to
priorclaves since all utility
supplies along with media disposal costs are levied direct to the University.
The Department of Biology is internationally renowned for the strength
and quality of its research, teaching and state-of-the-art facilities, and is
consistently ranked as one of the top biology departments in the country. The spacious modern teaching laboratories
provide an outstanding research environment for studying cancer, immunology and tissue engineering, to novel agricultural products,
environmental studies and bio-archaeology.
For the ultra-modern
teaching laboratories Priorclave is supplying a 350 litre autoclave featuring a
‘square' chamber, providing sufficient capacity to sterilise everything from
small and medium sized containers to large canisters and other plastic items. Despite its large chamber the 350 autoclave
has a small footprint ensuring that York
University can maximise the
teaching area. Effortless access to the
front loading chamber is gained by the two hand-wheel door closure system.
It is the
combination of standard functions such as delayed start and media warming for
ready to pour media at the start of the day plus automatic timed freesteaming
for improving air removal and sterilising performance that contributes to the
speed at which the priorclaves can move from an off status into a full on-start
for steam sterilisation. It proved a
major factor in winning the contract for the biology department.
As part of this contact Priorclave is to supply a high capacity steam
steriliser, a 700 L autoclave for the central Wash-Up and Sterlising Facility
to ensure complete sterilisation of all medium and other waste by-products
generated by more than 30 research
groups located in the department of Biology . This large, front-loading rectangular
chambered autoclave also has an easy-open/close door locking system activated
by three hand-wheels.
The addition of Priorclave autoclaves at York University ensures that the
Biology Department, which is recognised as one of the leading biological
science departments in the UK, maintains the highest of standards in
sterilisation in the laboratory to prevent cross contaminations, as well as in
the central wash-up facility for the safe disposal of deactivated waste
material from research experiments in-line with legal requirements.
For more information visit
www.priorclave.co.uk
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