Since its formation in 1995, ACLARA has grown to over 40 employees, including internationally-renowned experts in the fields of microfluidics and capillary electrophoresis. ACLARA is applying advances in microfluidics and miniaturization to genetic analysis, drug screening and optimization, and clinical diagnostics. These areas require analytical processes to be implemented at industrial scale, with large numbers of samples being processed in parallel. Most of these analytical processes can be miniaturized and integrated by microfluidics, thereby providing order-of-magnitude or greater cost reductions and efficiency improvements on several levels.

Advanced Liquid Handling has developed a user friendly line of components for automated systems and fluid handling that has a unique and patented drive mechanism to ensure a backlash free connection between motor and syringe. The same technology allows us to give our customers an innovative linear drive and XYZ motion solutions

Since 1979, Airfiltronix Corporation has been manufacturing quality portable ductless recirculating fume hoods, filtering systems, and enclosures for industry, medicine and research. Our corporate goal has been to provide our customers with clean air solutions to their pollution problems, whether they be from vapors or particulates. Our products includes a complete line of portable recirculating fume hoods of standard and custom design, i.e. containment hoods, room air purifiers, fume extractors, tabletop clean rooms, balance enclosures, glutaraldehyde workstations, PCR enclosures. Airfiltronix also provides customized engineering solutions to address customers specific fume/particle problems. Our modular design enables us to build custom sized enclosures without custom sized prices.

Allegro Technologies, based in Dublin, Ireland, develops instruments which focus on the aspiration and dispensation of liquid volumes in the nano and micro litre range. Allegro's proprietary liquid handling technology tools enable the miniaturisation of biomolecular and bioanalytical science in applications such as drug discovery, proteomics, genomics and diagnostics.

Amroy designs laboratory robotics for pipetting.

Apogent Technologies Inc. is a diversified worldwide leader in the design, manufacture, and sale of laboratory, life science, and diagnostic products used in healthcare diagnostics and scientific research. Apogent’s companies are divided into three business Segments—Clinical Diagnostics, Labware and Life Sciences, and Laboratory Equipment.

Asys Hitech is a leading supplier of Microplate Readers, Washer, Dispenser and Shaker/Incubators.

Arrick Robotics manufactures easy-to-use, PC-based automation products including stepper motor control systems, linear and rotary positioning tables, robotic workcells, and automation accessories such as pulley reducers and grippers. These products are used in a variety of settings including laboratories, factories, machine shops, and education. Their product line also includes the Trilobot mobile robot platform which is used mainly for AI software research and education.

ASINEX is the place to look for new organic compounds. We provide samples for screening in pharmaceutical and agricultural research. New compounds come to ASINEX from all over the former USSR. Over 3,500 chemists from Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Kirghizia are our suppliers. They offer products of academic and applied research, Ph.D. studies and inventions. This ensures great diversity and complexity of compounds.

Axon Instruments, Inc.'s mission is to develop and manufacture novel high technology devices and software for medical research, drug discovery and diagnostics. Our main product lines are:
Functional Genomics: scanners and analysis software for DNA and protein microarrays 
High-Throughput Screening (HTS): cell-based pharmaceutical screening using high-resolution fluorescence imaging and electrophysiology (patch and voltage clamp) 
Functional Neurosurgery: microelectrode-guided surgery 
Cellular Neurosciences: cellular electrophysiology and imaging 
Our goal is to make high-speed, sensitive instruments and software accessible to all members of the global scientific, industrial research and medical communities at a reasonable price.

BD Biosciences Discovery Labware offers one of the most extensive arrays of microplates for high throughput screening in the industry. BD Falcon[tm] 384- and 96-well assay plates are available in a variety of styles and surface chemistries. BD BioCoat[tm] multiwell plates are coated a variety of extracellular matrices and attachment factors, including collagen I, poly-lysine, gelatin and streptavidin. We offer a number of novel HTS assay systems, including the BD BioCoat HTS Caco-2 assay system that produces a differentiated cell monolayer in just 3 days and the BD Falcon HTS FluoroBlok Insert System that automates assay detection with fluorescence.

BERTHOLD TECHNOLOGIES Bioanalytic designs, manu-factures and distributes instruments for life science research, biotechnology and drug discovery and is well known for its lumi-nometers. Our customers are primarily in research, biotechnology and pharma-ceutical industry, but also in hospitals, environmental, food and beverage controll and hygiene monitoring. Even forensic labs are using our sensitive instru-ments.

Bigneat manufactures clean air and hazard containment equipment for Hospitals, Laboratories and Industry including; Fume Cabinets (Ductless), Fume & Dust Containment Systems, Powder Weighing Cabinets, Microbiological Safety Cabinets, PCR, Chemical Storage Systems, Robotic & Analytical System Enclosures.

Biometra develops, manufactures and sells products for the molecular biology and biochemistry market. Core technologies include the development and production of Peltier driven multiple Thermocyclers, Electrophoresis instruments and specialised Blotting devices.

Bio-Tek Instruments, Inc. designs, develops and markets Biomedical and Laboratory Instruments, associated software programs and integrated system solutions worldwide. Our products support a diverse number of users including: Clinical Reference Laboratories, Biotechnology Research and Biomedical Engineering Departments.

BMG LabTechnologies presents the FLUOstar, LUMIstar, and THERMOstar line of microplate readers.

Since 1975, Brandel has designed and manufactured laboratory equipment for the biomedical research industry. Dedication to user friendly, dependable and versatile solutions has earned Brandel a worldwide reputation for quality.

Brinkmann Instruments Inc., based in Westbury, New York, is one of the largest independent suppliers of laboratory equipment. Its products, sold direct or through authorized laboratory dealers, can be found in most analytical, biological, bio-chemical, and chemistry laboratories throughout North America. Brinkmann distributes and supports products with the following brand names: Brinkmann | Büchi | Eco Chemie | Eppendorf | HeidolphKinematic | Lauda | Metrohm | Retsch | Tuttnauer.

As pioneers in the field of microwave chemistry, we at CEM have a unique insight into microwave technology, its uses and its potential. Since 1978, we have developed microwave chemistry solutions for various industries.

Cetek Corporation has developed a powerful screening technology that greatly enhances the ability to discover valuable "hits" in complex samples such as natural product extracts, combinatorial chemistry and combinatorial biology mixtures.

Long acknowledged for our expertise in surface chemistry and materials science in polymers and glass, Corning Incorporated, Science Products Division continues to advance innovative solutions for today’s emerging life science trends. We are the industry leader in plastic vessels for cell culture and liquid handling. We are also developing leading-edge products for the field of molecular biology. You can continue to look to Corning Costar for the highest standards in product design and plastics molding, as well as expanding our technology to include encapsulation of membranes into plastic devices. We’ve enhanced our offering of products and their packaging to be robotics-and automation-friendly, and are furthering our efforts to produce environmentally sensitive materials.

Datavision Inc., a leader in distribution, manufacture, and development of barcode and data collection equipment and related software.

Digi-Trax is a Value Added Reseller of Auto-ID solutions, including on-demand bar code print systems, bar code scanners, portable data terminals, hi-durability laboratory labels, label print software and sevice.

E & K Scientific has been serving the pharmaceutical and biomedical research industries for over twenty years. Our long-standing commitment to provide total customer satisfaction and quality products has earned us a solid reputation throughout the medical industry.

Eppendorf carries Products and Applications for Liquid Handling, Cell and Molecular Biology, Clinical and Industrial Analysis.

The mission of Essen Instruments is to bring a new generation of tools to researchers in drug discovery and the life sciences including the Pipeline™ sterile fluid dispenser and the PatchPlate™ consumable used in the high-throughput electrophysiology system.

Exiqon offers custom bio-arrays based on its novel high affinity DNA analogue, called Locked Nucleic Acid (LNA) and its proprietary photochemical metod for covalent immobilization of bio-molecules onto solid surfaces. Additionally Exiqon offers its Immobilizer range of 96- and 384-well plates for the one-step covalent immobilization of DNA, peptides and proteins. Plates are available in clear, black and white polystyrene and in fixed as well as strip plate formats.

Fylde Scientific Ltd, FS, consists of a small team of analytical chemists who have spent a large part of their working lives developing and automating analytical methods for one of the UK's major manufacturers. They produced automatic analysers for use both by skilled operators in the laboratory and on-line for direct process control. They also provided simpler versions of the laboratory analysers, as at-line analysers, for use by process control staff in situations where it was just not feasible(or possible) to install on-line analysers.

In 1995 Genevac launched the Atlas HT high throughput centrifugal evaporation system after a number of years’ development in the world’s leading pharmaceutical laboratories.  The Atlas system is the first evaporation system of its kind.  The Atlas system can handle a large number of samples.  Its speed of operation is second-to-none.  And it achieves excellent results, evaporating the most difficult solvents commonly used in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical and biotechnology industries.

The new Greiner 1536 well microplate approximates 16 typical 96 well plates and offers up to 60 times savngs in reagents and materials when compared to conventional plates.

Harvard Apparatus, since 1904, the most trusted name in Bioscience Research equipment and precision fluid delivery, supplier of syringe pumps for benchtop and OEM applications.

HEMCO enclosures meet the needs of isolation laboratory robotic and automated processes. Exhaust air, clean work station, or temperature controlled environment are typical systems.

Nowadays HETTICH centrifuges are indispensable in the laboratory world. They have been the centrifuge of choice wherever performance and precision are demanded in centrifugation. In cooperation with the users centrifuges have been developed covering almost all fields of application.

The success of companies in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical and agrochemical industries is directly related to their ability to identify new chemical compounds and quickly bring these products to market.  Up to 30% of the expense of new product development is attributed to the pre-clinical, pre-approved or product discovery phases of chemical research. Hardware and software products that optimize these phases will enable companies to maintain a cutting-edge advantage over their competition. Developing new drugs can take up to 10 years and can cost $500 million in the process. Anything that can be done to shorten that process will accelerate time to sales for pharmaceutical clients and provide improved quality of life for us all. Hewlett-Packard  is teaming with key ISVs to facilitate that process.

Hitachi Instruments known worldwide for innovative technology, assists researchers to find solutions to their scientific instrument requirements.

Horizon Specialty Inc. manufactures and distributes innovative and economic products for high throughput sample preparation. We offer simple, economical solutions that contain the same quality as a Robotic Workstation does for a fraction of the price. Additionally, these products are set up quickly and easily.

IGEN International Inc. develops detection platforms utilizing ORIGEN® technology, electrochemiluminescence.  Flexible formats allow quantification of specific interactions between two molecules (including: quantitation of analytes, mRNA, K_p's of receptor-ligand pairs, enzyme-substrate activities, interaction of DNA binding-proteins with DNA).  Combining its homogeneous format with a flow cell approach improves sensitivity and precision, while streamlining assay automation.

INHECO Industrial Heating & Cooling GmbH specializes in thermal management solutions in the future-orientated markets biotechnology, medical technology, telecom/datacom und food technology. As a typical OEM supplier, INHECO develops, produces and distributes units for heating and cooling, which are defined in closed cooperation with the customers. By concentrating exclusively on providing Thermal Management solutions, INHECO offers to their customers market effective advantages in the areas of quality, costs and product development times.

Innovative Microplate is a full-service custom microplate manufacturing company with custom design, tooling, molding and machining capabilities under one roof. In existence since 1984, we are a major supplier of custom microplates to the biotechnology industry.

J-KEM Scientific, Inc. manufactures Temperature Controllers, Pressure Controllers, Robotics, Data Acquisiton, and Combinatorial Synthesis.

Jones Chromatography Inc. has thrived since 1985 on one premise: do one thing, and do it better than anyone else. In an industry of corporate giants that have prospered on mass-production, Jones Chromatography has quietly become an innovator by specializing in all aspects of liquid separation. Jones Chromatography Inc. (JCI) is not a manufacturer, but simply combines the technologies of the world's top manufacturers with exceptional technical sales and support, educational seminars and comprehensive customer service. JCI has focused on finding the best products in the industry, making existing products better, and getting those products to the customer quickly and accurately.

JTECH Communications, Inc. is the nation's leading manufacturer of on-premise pager systems. Produced in a variety of models for specific service industries, these silent paging systems generally consist of a master transmitter that provides immediate, silent communication and messaging to individual pager units.

JULABO is synonymous for technology. We're very proud of our products, and we're excited to introduce to you our newest series of Bath Circulators, Recirculating Coolers, Heating/Cooling Circulators and a diverse line of control equipment aimed at providing the scientific community with the results they EXPECT.

K&R Technologies Group provides microbiology automation including media dispensers and spiral platers.

Keyence Corporation - Manufacturer of factory automation sensors, vision systems and measuring instruments for non-contact inspection and measurement.

LABCYTE offers a mature and reliable product line consisting of automated pipetting workstations, automatic "walkaway" microplate washers, magnetic bead washers and DNA extraction working decks. LABCYTE also has a new line of HTS plate replicators, microplate incubators and microplate coolers that we will be introducing in 2001.

For nearly 30 years Labcon has been designing and manufacturing quality disposable plastics for laboratories all over the world. We now make more than 500 products and distribute them on every continent except Antarctica. Our mission is to provide the highest quality products to the world's scientific marketplace. In this we are committed to consistent growth and innovation in a team oriented supportive work environment.

Labnet International: Manufacturer and distributor of laboratory centrifuges, shakers, liquid handling instruments, molecular biology products, and laboratory plastics.

Labtronics Inc. is committed to fulfilling all of your instrument interfacing needs. We specialize in scientific software that will assist you in automating your laboratory.

The Luminex 100(tm) is a powerful lab analysis system for laboratory investigation with speed, low cost and ease of operation. The Luminex 100 with xMAP(tm) technology enables you to simultaneously perform up to 100 tests in a single tube, or well of a microtiter plate, using very small sample volumes. The system is suitable for many assay formats including nucleic acid assays, receptor-ligand assays, immunoassays and enzymatic assays. Luminex has been marketing the current generation of the xMAP system worldwide since 1999. It is already in use by leading research laboratories as well as major pharmaceutical, diagnostic and biotechnology companies.

Marsh Bio Products offers a unique array of products for PCR, drug discovery, and freezer storage. The diverse family of PCR plates, tubes, and strips provides an ideal solution to perform large or small quantities of PCR reactions. All PCR plastics are designed for use with Marsh Bio Products' automated and manual heat sealing systems. Marsh ReddyMix PCR regents streamline tedious reaction setup, and can be purchased prealiquoted into any of their PCR plastics. They also distribute thermal cyclers. In addition to PCR products, Marsh Bio Products also offers a full line of deep well, microtitration, peptide binding, and high throughput screening plates for drug discovery. As with PCR plates, Marsh drug discovery plates are designed for use with their manual and automated heat sealing systems. To compliment their line of drug discovery plates Marsh offers a complete line of laboratory storage and freezer racking systems suitable for manual use or integration into automated systems. Rounding out the line are Marsh Bio Products' premium grade pipette tips, microcentrifuge tubes, microcentrifuges, freezer vials, and tissue culture products.

As the world leader in innovative liquid handling systems Matrix offers a full range of liquid handling Speedamation, Automation and Consumables and is committed to providing a steady stream of new products and product improvements to make your pipetting procedures easier, faster and more accurate.

METTLER TOLEDO Automated Chemistry provides the enabling technology and methodology to help researchers to discover new life-saving molecules and to develop safe and efficient processes to bring these compounds to market. From a wide variety of robotic preparation and sampling systems, organic chemistry workstations, parallel synthesis and optimization tools, automated laboratory reactors and calorimeters and analytical sensing technology, METTLER TOLEDO Automated Chemistry can offer you a solution to meet your particular challenge. And this technology is backed up through a global organization with individuals with many years of experience in the development and application of technology for the pharmaceutical industry and METTLER TOLEDO's world class application and service support.

MicroFab Technologies, Inc. develops and commercializes new technology aimed at enabling high-payoff applications for microdispensing and precision printing in a wide range of industries and applications. Commercial and industrial applications of the technology include microdispensing of liquid solder; adhesives; optical and electrical polymers; and biomedical materials, including diagnostic reagents. The speed, precision, and digital nature of MicroJets make them well suited for automated control in the manufacturing plant or research laboratory.

Micronic BV manufactures liquid handling and sample storage products.  TraXis® is a new tubesystem that is intelligent. The new tubeholder 96, made from PPN. Together with the reader family, and a new and improved capping system, Micronic sets again a new standard in the world of Sample Storage & Sample Logistics.

Micronics, Inc., based in Redmond, WA was formed in January 1996 to develop and commercialize innovative diagnostic and analytical products utilizing the unique characteristics of fluids flowing in microfluidic channels. These microfluidic technologies, licensed from the University of Washington, were originally developed using microfabrication techniques established within the semiconductor manufacturing industry. Small microfluidic channels, on the order of hundreds of microns in diameter, are now easily constructed on silicon chips. Fluids flowing in these small channels have unique characteristics which can be applied to chemical or cell analysis (see Technologies section). These characteristics include ways to separate cells and chemicals without centrifugation or filtration, and ways to simultaneously measure sample and control chemicals for purposes of instrument auto-calibration. The miniaturization of these processes assures that minimal volumes of reagents will be consumed in these assays, minimal volumes of sample will be required, and minimal volumes of waste will be generated. All of these advantages are valued highly in both clinical and process-control chemical analysis.

Millipore is a multinational corporation that develops, manufactures and sells a broad range of purification products to the microelectronics manufacturing, biopharmaceutical manufacturing and analytical laboratory markets.

Misonix, Inc. develops, manufactures, and/or markets medical, scientific, and industrial ultrasonic and air pollution systems.

MMI Scientific began in 1981, developing Mini Gels and Power Supplies for the inventor of Horizontal Slab Gel Electrophoresis.  Our mainstay has been design and production of prototype and special purpose laboratory equipment. This work included Water Cooled Knudsen Effusion Cells for measuring the vapor pressure of agrochemicals and Low Volume Flow Cells for determining in-vitro percutaneous penetration.  Recent work includes Laboratory Robotic Peripherals such as prototype 384 Well Dot Blot Manifolds.

Molecular BioProducts, Inc. manufactures premium-quality laboratory products for molecular biology researchers worldwide.  As the makers of ART® self-sealing barrier pipet tips and RNase AWAY® decontaminate, MBP is the unrivaled leader in contamination control.   MBP continues to bring a higher standard of precision to automated liquid handling with our recent introduction of MBP BioRobotix® tips.  In developing other new products, we maintain our committment to quality and innovation, as we consistently surpass industry standards and implement the most rigorous system of quality assurance in the business.

Molecular Devices Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets proprietary, high-performance bioanalytical measurement systems, including software and consumables, designed to accelerate the drug discovery and development processes. The Company's systems have applications in many aspects of the therapeutic development process, from discovery and clinical research through manufacturing and quality control.

Molecular Dynamics, the world's leading manufacturer of innovative instrument systems for the life sciences.

Nalge Nunc International manufactures plastic disposable labware under the Nunc brand used in cell culture, cryo preservation, immunology and molecular biology. Many of our products are used in HTS applications.

Nanogen's proprietary platform technology takes advantage of the fact that most biological molecules are either positively or negatively charged and is ideally suited to unravelling complex genetic information. Through the use of microelectronics, Nanogen's technology enables the active movement and concentration of charged molecules to and from designated test sites on its semiconductor microchip. The test sites may be arranged in a variety of configuration, or arrays, on the microchip. In addition, Nanogen's technology allows for the simultaneous analysis of multiple test results, or "multiplexing," from a single sample.

New Brunswick Scientific is committed to the design, development, manufacture and marketing of the highest quality equipment, instrumentation and software for the life sciences. Our products, for use in research through production, include biological and combinatorial-chemistry shakers, fermentors, mammalian cell bioreactors, biological air samplers, and automated media preparation equipment. Additionally, DGI BioTechnologies, our majority-owned drug lead discovery operation has developed a proprietary process that offers pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies an improved method of identifying novel, small molecule, orally available drug leads.

New Era Pump Systems: Programmable syringe pump, designed for automation.  Program in complex dispenses for stand alone operation, also built in RS-232 interface for computer control and TTL logic control.

New Precision Technology, Inc. is a leader in affordable standard and semi-custom automated systems for dispensing, soldering, gasketing, conformal coating, and pick and place assembly.

NetQem is a global supplier of bulk intermediates and reagents to the pharma- and nutraceutical, agro, biotech, flavor- fragrance and specialty chemicals industries. Because our network consists of manufacturers with well established core technologies, we are able to offer quality fine chemicals to value-driven customers at substantial savings.

In research laboratories, product development departments and on production lines around the world, scientists and engineers depend on Newport Corporation. The company is the leading worldwide manufacturer and distributor of precision components and systems used for development and application of laser and optical technologies, supporting not only advanced research, but also sophisticated new technology and industrial applications.

For over 25 years NuAire has been universally recognized as the leader in providing laboratory professionals with reliable products for the most demanding environments. NuAire manufactures Biological Safety Cabinets, Co2 Water-Jacketed Incubators, Laminar Airflow Equipment, Ultralow Temperature Freezers, and variety of complementary products and systems to serve the needs of the wold's laboratory community.

Oyster Bay Pump Works was established in 1979 and is an internationally recognized leader in the manufacture of cost-effective liquid dispensing systems. We serve all industries that require automation of precision liquid dispensing and related operations. Leading companies in the medical diagnostics industry are among our valued customers. We have earned an enviable reputation for good design and quality products.

PanVera Corporation provides recombinant proteins, fluorescence polarization-based assays for high-throughput screening, and contract services in protein manufacturing and assay development. Assays are available for tyrosine kinase, protein kinase C (also detects PKA and GSK 3b), and estrogen receptors alpha and beta. Available proteins include estrogen, androgen, and glucocorticoid receptors, protein kinases, and drug metabolizing enzymes.

Parker Hannifin's Daedal Division provides motion control solutions ideal for Life Science applications. Daedal positioners are the foundation for microarraying, liquid handling, and storage and retrieval robots. With linear servo motors, precision ball-screws, and belt driven components, Daedal provides systems with the technology to meet your throughput and precision requirements.

PerkinElmer Life Sciences supplies products, services and technologies for functional genomics, high throughput screening and drug discovery as well as for clinical screening. Customers throughout the world are involved in a broad range of research efforts connected with the treatment and cure of disease. Such efforts range from discovering specific genes and understanding their function, to identifying the biological targets for new drugs, as well as screening for new drug candidates. Clinical screening programs carried out by our customers also serve to alleviate or prevent disease by identifying those members of the population most at risk later in their lives. PerkinElmer is a critical partner to both scientists and clinicians who are working to improve human health.

Phenix Research Products is a leading supplier of consumables and equipment to life science research laboratories world wide. We provide committed personal service and guaranteed lowest third pricing on thousands of state of the art laboratory products.

Pierce Chemical provides chemically modified and coated microwell plates for HTS, both in 96 and 384 well format. In addition, we provide numerous detection reagents for use in HTS, including colorimetric, fluorometric and chemiluminescent substrates.

At pION we consider determination or prediction of solubility, dissolution, permeability and human absorption our core business. We intend to cover the needs of the pharmaceutical industry for screening and analysis of pharmaceutical compounds in these areas through the combination of instrumentation, software and laboratory services.

Popper & Sons, Inc. ISO 9001 US mfr of Needles &Sampling Probes, for Laboratory Automation (Liquid Handling, Auto Samplers, Chemistry Analyzers). OD/ID coating to minimize carry-over. Special Non-Coring Septum Penetration geometry. Next-Day delivery on Hypodermic tubing. One week for blunt tubes.

The Porex Bio Products Group, a world leader in the development and supply of disposable products, offers a broad range of innovational and integrated products to the research, analytical and clinical laboratory markets.

Precision Lab Products was founded in 1995 with the primary purpose of producing high quality Teflon® Printed Microscope Slides. We have now expanded our product line to include 24, 96, 384 and 1536 well Teflon® Printed Glass Microarray slides as well as Plain and Frosted Microscope Slides and Cover Glass.

Promega Corporation is a global leader in providing innovative solutions for the life sciences industry. Many of the company's products have been specifically developed for ease of automation and use in high throughput screening. Product offerings are available for use in genomics, proteomics, cellular analysis, molecular diagnostics, drug discovery, and human identification. Founded in 1978, the company is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.

Pyrosequencing AB develops, manufactures and sells complete solutions for Applied Genetic Analysis based on its proprietary Pyrosequencing technology, a simple-to-use DNA sequencing technique.

Q3DM provides solutions to long-standing constraints in automating high resolution imaging with its high-throughput microscopy (HTM) system. Patented technological advances bring dramatic improvements in imaging quality, quantification of fluorescence, scanning accuracy, data streaming and compression translating to higher confidence and fewer experiments. Rapid autofocus is applicable to both slide and multi-well formats.

Radiometer Analytical S.A. manufactures four product families:
- MeterLab, reliable pH, ion and conductivity measurements
- TitraLab, dedicated to titration and automation
- TraceLab, the intelligent approach to trace analysis
- VoltaLab, versatile instrumentation for electrochemistry

Robbins Scientific is a leading manufacturer and marketer of laboratory equipment and specialty labware for HLA/tissue typing, molecular biology, high-throughput genomics, drug candidate screening and chemical synthesis worldwide.

Scientific Calibration provides laboratories, universities, researchers and medical facilities with precision maintenance services for their sophisticated laboratory equipment. Our certified professionals can repair and calibrate pipettes from Rainin, Eppendorf, Oxford, Brinkman, Costar, Matrix, Biohit, MLA and many others. Sci Cal also specializes in Labsystems Multidrop systems, and our technicians specialize in the repair and calibration of electronic and multi-channel pipettes. Scientific Calibration also provides validation/calibration for incubators, freezers, and other laboratory equipment.

Scope Paging Systems can alert someone when a robot goes off line.  We have several types of interfaces which allow for open/close switches to activate our transmitter to a pager. The system can be set up to send "canned" messages or simply a numeric code.

Sigma-Aldrich develops, manufactures and distributes the broadest range of high quality biochemicals, organic chemicals, chromatography products and diagnostic reagents available in the world. The Company's products are used in high-tech research and development in universities and industry, in the diagnosis of disease, and as specialty chemicals for pharmaceutical and other manufacturing purposes in more than 160 countries.