The 400F/M1 is an extremely compact, single channel, instrument-quality peristaltic pump offering flow rates up to 200 ml/min
Bee Robotics, a designer and manufacturer of automated laboratory instruments, is using up to 500 400F/M1 OEM pumps from Watson-Marlow Pumps Group every year. They are applied to a variety of liquid handling applications that complement a wide range of diagnostic kits.
Bee Robotics today occupies four industrial units in North Wales, UK, which house its manufacturing and design facilities. The company has become well established in the automation of molecular and western blot strip based assays, and more recently has expanded into other fields of automation, offering OEM solutions to a wide range of clients.
High on the company’s priority list since day one have been quality and reliability. With 95 per cent of output exported, Bee Robotics needs to feel confident that its products will perform to high standards year-in, year-out. This of course also applies to the company’s selected pump technology.
The 400F/M1 is an extremely compact, single channel, instrument-quality peristaltic pump offering flow rates up to 200 ml/min. The pump shaft is supported by ball bearings which ensure extended gear motor life (the pump is available with four standard gear motors). The pump uses tube elements for simple tube loading, and Luer fittings for easy connection to transfer tubes – the tubes are completely enclosed in the pumping chamber.
The 400F/M1 pumps are used across four different liquid handling instruments for a variety of medical/biopharm research and production applications, typically handling reagents, wash waters and laboratory samples. On occasions the company will make use of a four-channel variant of the same model.
Among the instruments employing single-channel pumps are the BeeBlot, which offers an open system for strip based assays offering semi-automation for western blot and hybridisation (pumps used for aspiration and reagent addition). The volumes handled range from 50ul to 5ml depending on the application.
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