Summary: Azenta Life Sciences’ new Semi-Automated Septum Cap Capper offers a fast and versatile solution for sealing sample storage tubes, enhancing sample integrity.
Takeaways:
- The Semi-Automated Septum Cap Capper quickly and easily seals SBS format 96 sample tube racks with TPE septum caps, completing the entire capping procedure in just 20-30 seconds per rack.
- Designed to work with all 96-format Azenta sample storage tubes and compatible with most other SBS-compliant tube racks, thanks to adjustable spacers for varying depths of capping action.
- This device ensures sample integrity and audit trails, making it ideal for biobanks, compound libraries, and high-throughput storage applications, especially when used with Azenta racks featuring TubeLock functionality for automatic locking and unlocking of tubes.
The Semi-Automated Septum Cap Capper from Azenta Life Sciences is a new storage tube sealing device to preserve sample integrity and audit trails in biobanks, compound libraries, and other high-throughput storage applications.
Providing an optimized solution for TPE septum cap sealing of SBS format 96 sample tube racks – the Semi-Automated Septum Cap Capper is fast and easy to use.
Simply place a rack in the Septum Cap Capper drawer, place a TPE septum cap mat on top, push the drawer shut, and the capping action will start automatically. After all caps are inserted, the drawer will open automatically, and the sealed rack of tubes can be removed. The whole procedure takes only 20-30 seconds for a complete rack of tubes, according to Azenta.
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The Septum Cap Capper is perfect for use with all 96-format Azenta sample storage tubes with TPE Septum Caps. Simple use of spacers enables the depth of capping action to be adjusted allowing the device to also seal most other leading brands of SBS-compliant tube racks with their corresponding TPE cap mats. A Septum Cap Capper can seal both full, and partially full, racks.
Using the Semi-Automated Septum Cap Capper in conjunction with Azenta racks featuring proprietary TubeLock functionality enables automatic locking and unlocking of tubes within the rack, the company says.
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