HIGHLIGHTS
Labotec Receives Two Business Excellence Awards For Best Laboratory Equipment Supplier 2021 Labotec has been awarded two 2021 Excellence Awards for Best Laboratory Equipment Supplier South Africa on behalf of Global Health & Pharma, in the sixth annual Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Awards, and Best Laboratory Equipment Supply Company Sub-Saharan Africa by MEA (Middle East Africa) Markets magazine in the African Excellence Business Awards. Labotec is extremely honoured and humbled to receive both accolades. Global Health is a 260 000 strong multidisciplinary members’ community and information-sharing platform to enhance the communications and collaborative efforts across all fields within Human, Animal and Environmental Health. MEA Markets provides the latest business and investment news across the Middle East and Africa regions. Now in its fifth year, the African Excellence programme continues to highlight the companies and leaders who are spearheading and driving industry
across the continent. In their press release, MEA Markets states, “It is easy to see how Africa looks set to prove itself a vital business hub in the future. Defined today by innovation and adaptation, the continent has already established a strong foundation for excellence, impressing in a plethora of fields and industries. "Perhaps nothing speaks to the region’s ethos more than the last twelve months - at a time when countries all over the world struggled for normalcy, many businesses in Africa capitalised and took the opportunity to grow and thrive.” The GBH selection process “Awardees must demonstrate expertise within their field, dedication to customer service, and a commitment to promoting excellence.”
The ‘boxed’ solution
LABOTEC (PTY) LTD The judging panel is an unbiased international collective of individuals, with backgrounds from a myriad of fields, such as business, economy, politics, media, journalism, history and education. Our team of mechanical engineers and designers at AFMS produced a compact, airconditioned ‘boxed’ solution, offering vaccines to immunocompromised patients. This designed concept is based on the recently updated WHO, FDA and CDC guidance concerning vaccines. The ‘boxed’ solution consists of a tailored 3.5-ton self-braking, twinaxle, off-road durable framework with retractable aluminium steps and levelling jacks. The internal layout of the facility includes 10m² medical-grade floor area housing the furniture and chest fridges. These operate from the main grid power or generator power, with an automatic switch-over to the off-grid 2kVA solar battery system, which is capable of running the entire facility. This system further ensures that all priority power is dedicated to the chest freezers to guarantee safe storage of the vaccines. The solar system has remote login capability with a 4G internet connection, which allows real-time monitoring of the equipment load and facility electrical storage capacity.
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The control system allows for constant and real-time temperature monitoring, which provides the user continuous temperature feedback regarding the stored vaccines. Furthermore, this system provides an early warning in case the temperatures reach excess ranges, utilising a GSM or remote SMS alert system. This compact plug-and-play solution has been specially designed to reach South African citizens living in secluded and underserved areas that do not have the means to get to a vaccination facility or a general medical centre. This setup makes it easy and feasible for a medical team to reach these out-of-the-way areas and provide medical treatment to those in need. AIR FILTER MAINTENANCE SERVICES INTERNATIONAL Tel: (011) 462 0120 projectsadmin@afms.bz www.afms.bz
Fluoride ISE launched Metrohm is pleased to launch the Fluoride ISE (Fluoride Ion Selective Electrode), a dedicated sensor for selective measurements of fluoride. The new sensor combines the measuring electrode, the reference electrode, and a temperature sensor in a space-saving design, making it ideal for measurements in small sample volumes. The new sensor is available both in an analog and a digital version. For stable signals and reproducible results even in contaminated samples, the Fluoride ISE features a ground-joint diaphragm with a large surface providing consistent electrolyte outflow, reducing the risk of a blocked diaphragm.
As the potential in the sample solution is influenced by the temperature, the Fluoride ISE features an integrated temperature sensor to determine the temperature of both the calibration and the sample solution.
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