Priorclave supplies autoclaves to new Imperial College facility
The Imperial Centre for Translational and Experimental Medicine will open later this year
Priorclave has won the contract to supply a number of medium-capacity laboratory autoclaves to Imperial College London’s new scientific research building.
The Imperial Centre for Translational and Experimental Medicine will be officially opened later this year.
Imperial has a reputation for excellence in teaching and research and is consistently rated as one of the world's best universities. The new six-storey building on its Hammersmith Hospital Campus will be a flagship facility for the College’s Academic Health Science Centre, integrating patient-centred research with translational science activity.
Researchers in the new facilities will carry out clinical trials of novel treatments while helping to advance understanding of a range of health problems, including heart and circulatory disease.
A total of five priorclaves have been installed on each laboratory floor within dedicated wash-up and sterilisation facilities.
Imperial chose Prioclave’s EH450 autoclave, which has a large 450 litre capacity chamber that efficiently copes with high throughput as well as accommodating large and bulky items.
Priorclave’s managing director Tony Collins says: “This is the latest in a number of contracts that we have recently won from leading teaching and research colleges and universities. Our success in this market sector is attributed to the fact that we offer the broadest range of autoclaves, even our small capacity models are available with options that tend only to be available with larger capacity steam sterilisers.”
The EH450 has a large sterilisation chamber within a compact frame, creating a high-capacity steam steriliser that requires only a small floor area. It also comes castor-mounted for easy positioning anywhere in a laboratory and is available with a variety of optional extras to increase its versatility.
