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Azenta launches the BioArc Ultra, an automated solution for eco-friendly ultracold sample management

Azenta Life Sciences

A cutting-edge, high-density, energy efficient, automated sample storage system

6 Feb 2024
Lawrence Howes
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Eileen Hannigan and Sarah Nadin, Assay Development team at Merck
BioArc Ultra automated ultracold sample management solution

Azenta, Inc. will showcase BioArc™ Ultra (the ‘Ultra’) at SLAS2024 International Conference and Exhibition. The Ultra is an automated solution for high-density, eco-friendly ultracold sample management, and has been designed to provide a new level of performance for large-scale sample management. It promises to deliver significant operational efficiency benefits, including footprint, labor, and electricity cost savings compared to other commercially available systems, while enabling customers to further their global carbon emissions reduction goals.

The Ultra features an eco-friendly cooling system utilizing natural air rather than manufactured, ozone-depleting refrigerants, enabling a zero ozone depletion potential (ODP) and zero global warming potential (GWP), two factors that are key to sustainability needs and initiatives within life sciences industries and applications.

The innovative, eco-friendly, refrigeration technology also promises to reduce electric power consumption by 70% with a similar reduction in storage system footprint (compared to other commercially available manual options for similar storage capacity).

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