Erlab Launches New Safety Driven Captair Smart Product

Their latest innovation makes life in the lab simpler and safer…

As the inventor of ductless filtering systems, Erlab pushes the envelope once more as they re-invent the way scientists interact with their products in the lab by introducing a new SMART range of both ductless fume hoods and chemical storage cabinets.

DINO: Protect Your Lab COMPETITION

….and the winner of the Elga Dino Competition with entries from all over the world was won by a SOUTH AFRICAN LAB!!! Congratulations to Carien Muller from Onderstepoort Veterinary Academy – Animal Clinical Studies. She wins for the lab a year’s supply of consumables for their Elga Medica R7-15, plus chocolates flown in from the […]

WIN Quest To Find The Oldest ROTAVAPOR In The Land

Who has the oldest Büchi ROTAVAPOR in the country?  We were on a quest to find the oldest working Rotary Evaporator from the Swiss manufacturers Büchi, who are renowned for quality systems and lasting attributes worldwide.  They are also the inventors of the modern day evaporators. We believe we have finally found it.  Congratulations to […]

Buchi Launches Their Most Innovative Rotary Evaporator In Africa

Buchi Launches Their Most Innovative Rotary Evaporator In Africa

Guest speaker, Bernie Hertz from Buchi in Switzerland recently unveiled the latest and most innovative rotary evaporator, the R-300, at launch seminars held countrywide in Midrand, Cape Town and Durban.  These seminars focused on the solutions and benefits to ease daily evaporation needs.  Delegates attending were the first ones to experience the Buchi Rotavapor® R-300 […]

Inexpensively Determine Titration End-point with Ion Selective Electrodes

Inexpensively Determine Titration End-point with Ion Selective Electrodes

Measurement by ion-selective electrodes (ISE) is particularly useful for the determination of the titration end-point, as they are unaffected by sample colour or turbidity. ISEs are inexpensive and typically the cost per test is very small. The Orion brand from Thermo Scientific is a world leader in ISE technology and its range of electrodes form […]

Learning about Shark Lifestyle – Studies from Preserved Samples

Telstar - Sample preparation. Freeze drying cells

The KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board situated just north of Durban has been using a Telstar freeze dryer supplied by Labotec to preserve biological samples used for local and collaborative research.  Their work focuses on  stable isotopes  which are delivering interesting information on the presently little known food web interactions over ontogeny, the presence of retroviral DNA, […]

Temperature Control During R&D for Chemicals Used in Mined Minerals

Senmin of South Africa is a leading local manufacturer of chemicals used for the beneficiation and flocculation of a wide range of ore bodies such as platinum, diamonds, heavy minerals, coal, gold, uranium and base metals.  Their state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Sasolburg has a new R&D laboratory that opened in June 2015, and to control […]