'Planer' Freezers in Hi-Tech Labs in India :
Stem Cell Research is now a fast growing area of activity in India. Different groups are working towards developing speciality cell lines to cure ailments related to Heart, Liver, Eye, Blood, etc.
Cardio Thoracic & Vascular Surgery Department at AIIMS, New Delhi has taken great steps forward in stem cell research and now is planning to set up a state-of-the-art embryonic stem cell bank.
Reliance Life Sciences, Mumbai has reportedly developed a few cell lines successfully in the recent past is one of the two referral labs in India to have received recognition from NIH, U.S.A.
Both the above mentioned centres use 'PLANER' Controlled Rate Freezers for their work with great success.
Cord Blood Banking is yet another emerging field in our country. People are being educated on the need of Cord Blood Banking which, to put in simple terms, forms a sort of biological insurance for the new born babies. The first commercial Cord Blood Repository was recently launched in Chennai by Asia Cryo Cell Pvt. Ltd. who has opted for 'PLANER' Kryo 560-16 Controlled Rate Freezer for their Cryopreservation work.
First Vapour phase Cryo Storage Vessel:
MVE 1520 Eterne Vapour Phase Cryo Storage Vessel was delivered and installed at Asia CRYO-CELL Pvt. Ltd., Chennai. This is being used for storage of Cord Blood at a guaranteed under-the-lid temperature of -190ºC which is a very essential condition for long term cryopreservation of stem cell / cord blood. Completely satisfied with the guaranteed performance of the MVE 1520 Eterne Vessel, ACPL has again procured a bigger Vapour Phase Storage Vessel – Model MVE 1830 Eterne – to store their ever increasing number of Cord Blood samples.
Prestigious Order from ‘Stempeutics’:
Indus has bagged the prestigious order from Stempeutics Research Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore for supply of ‘Planer’ Model Kryo 560-16 Controlled Rate Freezer and two numbers of ‘Chart’ MVE 810 Eterne Vapour Phase Storage Vessel.
'INDUS' bags the second Cone Calorimeter order.
Cone Calorimeter is state-of-the-art instrument to measure Heat Release Rate, Smoke Release Rate, Mass Loss Rate, etc. from a sample that burns under different thermal radiant energy conditions.
After installing the first Cone Calorimeter manufactured by Fire Testing Technology Ltd., U. K. at Defence Bio Engineering & Electro Medical Laboratory (DEBEL), Bangalore in the year 2001, it was an occassion to be proud of for INDUS when the second Cone Calorimeter order was bagged from Centre for Fire, Exposive & Environment Safety (CFEES), Minstry of Defence, New Delhi. This unit to be installed at CFEES is equipped with a special accessory to analyze samples in vitiated atmosphere to test samples in different atmospheric compositions.
Cone Hat-rick !!
The third Cone Calorimeter was installed at Central Power Research Institute, Banlgalore – a premier testing and certifying laboratory under the Ministry of Power, GoI. This installation assumes significance due to the fact that CPRI is the nodal centre for testing and certifying power cables in India. With this installation FTT/Indus has performed a hat-rick in the sale of Cone Calorimeter in our country.
