Swiss Railway Line Makes Safety A Top Priority By: Mettler Toledo | - GoldenPass trains provide hours of enjoyable travel through scenic Switzerland. This mountainous country is a summer and winter sports paradise with stunning white Alpine peaks and beautiful blue and green lakes. Switzerland has developed into a popular destination for tourists of every nationality. Its majestic views and attractions suit a variety of tastes whether you are packing your hiking boots, snowboard, or just a good book and a pair of sunglasses.
Rainin And Phynexus To Focus On Workflow Innovations For Life Scientists By: Mettler Toledo | - By combining miniaturization with high performance, PhyTip columns eliminate many of the sample preparation bottlenecks encountered by researchers in their daily workflows. For protein purification, the technology is a natural fit with Rainin's high performance pipettes and its 40 year record of advancing pipetting technology in ways that improve accuracy, precision, ergonomics and workflow.
Automatic, Rapid And Accurate Preparation Of Cytostatic Drugs By: Mettler Toledo | - Ultra high-precision weighing in automated processes
The preparation of anti-cancer drugs in hospitals involves the development of individually tailored chemotherapy treatments for patients. The doses take account of individual characteristics, including the patient tolerate to a certain drug, and are prepared in containers of various shapes. The main critical factor concerns the high toxicity of the drugs; a dosage error can be lethal for the patient and the manipulation of these substanc ... Tags:automation and information system, chemotherapeutic drug
Mettler Toledo Introduces Advanced Affordable Counter Scale By: Mettler Toledo | - The Impact M is competitively priced and designed to meet a unique need in the market.
"The Impact M is faster to learn, easier to use and better for merchandising. It makes a great impression on customers," says Brian Hipsher, METTLER TOLEDO Retail Business Leader.
The Impact M is built on a history of robust and accurate design, and is equipped with new features that will carry it well into the future. In response to increasing demand from grocery retailers for improved oper ... Tags:affordable counter scale, counter scale, backroom scale
Solving Pharma Dosing Challenges Through Smart Automation By: Mettler Toledo | - Manually, sale weights ranging from 1 mg to several-100 mg often require 2 to 3 minutes per fill to achieve a within-tolerance fill. Substances such as peptides and proteins require multi-step synthesis, making them quite expensiveand not the kind of thing any processor or distributor relishes giving away for free.
Overfilling to ensure minimum standards are met can reduce already thin profit margins. But magnify the giveaway concern: Repeat the operation 30, 100 or 1,000 times i ... Tags:pharma dosing challenges, smart automation, peptides
Mettler Toledo Rainin's New E4 Xls Transforms Electronic Pipetting By: Mettler Toledo | - With the introduction of its new E4 XLS line of pipettes, METTLER TOLEDO Rainin , has raised the bar on electronic pipetting performance and ease-of-use. Featuring a large color screen, precision joystick and carousel-like menu, the E4 XLS makes moving between options and settings extremely fast and highly intuitive.
Mettler Toledo Ind780batch Adds Control, Flexibility To The Mix By: Mettler Toledo | - The IND780batch also adheres to the ISA SP-88 Batch Standard. This standard, also adopted as IEC 61512-1, describes design philosophies for batch control equipment and procedures to help ensure industry consistency among processors for improved consumer safety.
IND780batch can be used for single or multi-scale batching applications whether materials are added by hand or the process if fully automated. Automatic multi-material batch control handles up to 28 materials using condi ... Tags:stand-alone batch controller, advanced recipe control, accur
New Rainin Fliptube Reduces Contamination Risk, Increases Speed By: Mettler Toledo | - The RAININ FlipTube's ideal blend of increased speed and contamination-free results benefit researchers in the rapidly evolving disciplines of genomics and proteomics in particular, noted Leonard Pulig, General Manager, RAININ Instruments, LLC, part of METTLER TOLEDO's lab division.
"RAININ is happy to offer FlipTubes as part of our growing range of products that enable life science researchers to reach their goals more efficiently, whether they are working in academia, or in govern ... Tags:microdentrifuge tubes, Rainin, contamination-free, tubes
Mettler Toledo Rainin By: Mettler Toledo | - With the introduction of its new E4 XLS line of pipettes, METTLER TOLEDO Rainin , has raised the bar on electronic pipetting performance and ease-of-use. Featuring a large color screen, precision joystick and carousel-like menu, the E4 XLS makes moving between options and settings extremely fast and highly intuitive.
Before the E4 XLS, complexity has been the bane of electronic pipettes and the primary reason many researchers avoid them. Electronic pipettes with advanced features a ... Tags:ergonomically-shaped, graphical interface, electronic pipett
Freshly Baked Cakes With Maître Paul! Consistent Quality, Day In Day Out By: Mettler Toledo | - Matre Paul has been preparing freshly baked cakes and pastries at the companys own bakery for 25 years. Every day 15 to 20 tons of produced pastries leave the factory; around half are destined for export. The bakery produces cakes, flans, cream slices and other confectionery, all baked using traditional methods and only natural ingredients. After cooling down from the oven the cakes and products are immediately frozen to retain their freshness and to guarantee premium quality at any times.< ... Tags:ompact in-line checkweigher, metal detection combination sys
Csn910 Dimensioner Meets Multi-operational Needs By: Mettler Toledo | - To meet the multi-operational needs of todays Transport and Logistics (T&L) industry, METTLER TOLEDOs has designed the CSN910 dimensioner with multiple features that increase productivity, accuracy and security. Approved according to national and international standards, it guarantees reliable results for use over tilt trays, crossbelts or any other type of sorting system.
Repeatable Weighing For Better Automotive Quality Control By: Mettler Toledo | - METTER TOLEDO is pleased to announce that results from real-world client installations are in, and the IND780 weigh terminal performs with the reliability METTLER TOLEDO is known for in tough automotive quality-control testing environments.
The IND780 terminal is a perfect match for the automotive industry, where weight is used to check compliance of the car, or of individual components during assembly. With simple connectivity for multiple sensor technologies, IND780 can connect to ... Tags:Automotive Quality Control, automotive industry
New Over/under Scales Speed Production, Improve Hygiene By: Mettler Toledo | - METTLER TOLEDO introduces ICS4_9 and ICS6_9. These rugged, easy-to-clean and portable scale models make up a new family of over/under scales that can be configured to a wide variety of manual portioning and checkweighing tasks to help speed up productionand thus enhance profitabilityin harsh environments where hygiene counts.
Food manufacturers are being called upong to address growing international food safety concerns. But they must also contend with pressure on their bot ... Tags:Improve Hygiene
"PAT instrumentation, with applications from the laboratory to production scale, helps ensure bioprocesses are performing as designed to maximize batch yield and productivity," said Mr. Redman.
Effective screening and optimization for bioprocess development requires accurate monitoring and tight control of operating conditions. The METTLER TOLEDO literature review determined that PATs such as in situ monitoring are being used effectively to optimize bioprocesses in a ... Tags:Biotech Process Analytical Technology, PAT
Che Webinar: Designing Effective Food Safety Management Programs For Gfsi Scheme By: Mettler Toledo | - Leading supplier of precision instruments and services METTLER TOLEDO is partnering with SGS, the world's leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company to present a joint webinar entitled "Designing effective food safety management programs for GFSI schemes". The October 27, 2011 webinar requires pre-registration and is free of charge.
Quality Monitoring Of Flavorings - Essential For Great Tasting Food By: Mettler Toledo | - Various samples - several parameters
During quality monitoring of raw materials, intermediate and finished products for food flavorings, it is essential that the specific weight, refractive index and pH value are accurately determined. In addition, the color of the samples often has to be determined. These measurements are used for identity verification. They ensure that the correct raw materials have been used and that the correct product has been manufactured.
Cost-effective Maintenance With Intelligent Sensors By: Mettler Toledo | - Intelligent Sensor Management (ISM) is a proprietary technology developed by METTLER TOLEDO's Process Analytics division. Through a number of functions and design features it improves the performance of analytical sensors while also reducing sensor lifecycle costs.
Central to the ISM concept is the integration of a programmed microprocessor into the head of analytical sensors. This technology allows sensors to send not only a more accurate and reliable measurement to transmitters, b ... Tags:Sensors, calibration of sensors, intelligent sensors
Gwp Solutions For Better Weighing Results And Processes By: Mettler Toledo | - Process breakthrough
TheraSkin is a Brazilian company with more than 13 years of experience in the development and production of skin treatment products. Based on scientific principles, GWP (a method for risk management and quality control introduced by METTLER TOLEDO), mapped the application of 78 balances used by TheraSkin in its laboratory in order to analyze specific instrument risks and their subsequent correlation with process tolerances.
Dropping Point Of Fats And Oils According To The Aocs Official Method By: Mettler Toledo | - Edible fats and oils are widely consumed in food products and used in food processing. The selection of suitable raw materials is paramount for the production of a high quality end-product. Unsuitable raw materials or mixtures may significantly impact on the quality of the end-product as well as on consumer satisfaction. Therefore, an exact knowledge of the thermal behavior of fats and oils under various temperatures is required.
New Calibry 5.0 Pipette Calibration Software From Mettler-toledo Enhances Accuracy By: Mettler Toledo | - METTLER TOLEDO understands that pipette accuracy plays a significant role in generating quality lab results. So were pleased to announce user-friendly next-generation Calibry 5.0 pipette calibration software. Calibry 5.0 offers the easy ability to monitor the accuracy of pipettes with regular testing and calibration. You can ensure pipettes are performing within tolerance - a sure way to reduce risk and costs associated with poor quality results.
Free Download: Ir Spectroscopy Defines Catalyzed Reactions By: Mettler Toledo | - Authored by METTLER TOLEDOs Adrian Burke and Dominique Hebrault, Metal Catalyzed Transformations reviews four recent academic examples where METTLER TOLEDOs ReactIRTM in situ spectroscopy quickly supplied key reaction parameterssome of which had been lacking using other methodologyto researchers in highly usable graphic formats. ReactIR also allowed results collection in fewer experiments saving researchers time as well as materials cost.
Secret Recipes Behind Ricola's Herbal Drops By: Mettler Toledo | - A traditional Swiss brand
Since Ricola AG was founded 80 years ago in Switzerland, the famous herbal drops have helped a great many people with sore or dry throats. Additionally, the traditional family business offers a wide range of products from herbal teas to sugar-free herbal pearls in numerous flavors and packages. The entire Ricola herbal assortment is produced in Switzerland with around 90 % of the products being exported to over 50 countries worldwide.
New Rainin Litetouch Microcentriguge Tube Reduces Contamination Risk, Increases Speed By: Mettler Toledo | -
RAININ, a METTLER TOLEDO company, is pleased to announce the arrival of LiteTouch microcentrifuge tubes. Starting July 2010, LiteTouch tubes will help life scientists in a broad variety of research settings work faster while simultaneously reducing the risk of sample cross-contamination.
The RAININ LiteTouch microcentrifuge tube's ideal blend of increased speed and contamination-free results benefit researchers in the rapidly evolving disciplines of genomics and proteomics in ... Tags:ergonomic lab tools, one-handed open-and-close
Glass-free Ph Measurement Fulfills Strictest Requirements By: Mettler Toledo | - German Dairy Producer
Our customer is a German specialist producer of cheeses such as camembert and brie. Within their highly modern installations, strict hygienic procedures and quality checks accompany the complete production process. The customer's factory is certified in accordance with the internationally recognized standards DIN EN ISO 9001, American Institute of Baking, British Retail Consortium and International Food Standard. The factory is dependent upon an intact environment bei ... Tags:pH Measurement, Glass-free pH Measurement, cheese producer
Free Web Guide Launched To Enhance Piece-counting Precision By: Mettler Toledo | - METTLER TOLEDO, a leading global supplier of precision instruments and services, has launched a new web-based resource to help manufacturers optimize piece counting efforts. Comprehensive, easy-to-navigate, and available in twelve languages, www.mt.com/count explores proven scale-based methods to enhance piece-counting precision. Implementation case studies, calculators that demonstrate savings achieved through accurate piece counts and an order form for a free CD-ROM-based piece-counting guide ... Tags:Free Web Guide, Enhance Piece-Counting Precision, piece-coun
Effective Titration Solutions Catalyst For Success By: Mettler Toledo | - Supporting the environment
Johnson Matthey Catalysts GmbH, based in Redwitz, Germany, supplies catalysts for pollutant emission controls. Its catalysts help to reduce dangerous Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) emissions, one of the major pollutants emitted from industries such as power plants, incineration plants, stationary diesel engines and heavy-duty diesel vehicles.
Smart Workstation Simplifies Synthesis: Metter Toledo's Optimax By: Mettler Toledo | - Rising time-to-market pressure in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries is forcing chemical and process development chemists to turn to more productive tools for organic synthesis and process development. METTLER TOLEDO's OptiMaxTM can help meet these pressures. The newly designed workstation has been created by chemists for chemists. It simplifies the way organic synthesis is performed and provides significant productivity gains during process development while carefully tracking synthesis ... Tags:synthesis workstation, organic synthesis, stirrers
Maximize Process Efficiency And Minimize Downtime By: Mettler Toledo | - Metal Detector Provides Cure for Productivity Headaches
Mettler-Toledo Safeline has announced the release of a new generation of its well established Tablex metal detection system - the most sensitive metal detector in the World. Tablex-PRO uses a new version of advanced Safeline PowerPhasePRO software and is set to raise the standards adopted by the pharmaceutical industry.
Effective Weighing For Improved Product Quality By: Mettler Toledo | - METTLER TOLEDO shares METAROMs taste for precision. Its metrology experts ensure everything from METAROMs compact balances to its voluminous sensor-enabled storage tanks function at peak performance.
Weighing in on METAROMs Manufacturing Process
Back in 1953, METAROM founder Maurice Metayer would have worked primarily with levels when measuring liquid ingredients at his blending plant. But times and methods change. Today, the company has ten manufacturing sites ... Tags:Effective Weighing, Improved Product Quality
Vital Help For Snakebite Victims By: Mettler Toledo | - With over 600 known species of venomous snakes worldwide, snakebite-related deaths continue to be an issue today. The risk of dying from a snakebite is greatest in rural areas of Africa and Asia, where the availability of antivenom and other appropriate treatments is lowest and the cost and complexity of antivenom manufacture are major obstacles to improving outcomes for snakebite victims. These high costs have meant that some regions, particularly in West Africa, have no access to potentially l ... Tags:snake venom, Aliquots of snake venom
Versatile Ph Meter Used In The Cleanest Room In The World By: Mettler Toledo | - Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is one of the leading organizations for applied research in Europe. It undertakes application-oriented research of direct utility to private and public enterprise and of wide benefit to society but does not participate in basic research. The customers are industrial or service companies and the German federal and local government. The 57 Fraunhofer Institutes employ more than 15,000 staff at 40 different locations in ... Tags:Versatile, pH Meter, clean rooms, extreme environmental
Meet Global Food Safety Standards And Increase Productivity By: Mettler Toledo | - Leading supplier of precision instruments and services METTLER TOLEDO is partnering with the British Retail Consortium (BRC) to present a joint webinar entitled "Adopting BRC Global Standards & Increasing Productivity."
With consumer concerns on one side and expanding regulatory requirements on the other, food processors can find themselves caught in a web of media attention that saps employee morale and marshals executive resources. Documenting manufacturing processes under uniform ... Tags:Global Food Safety Standards, government regulators, BRC
The Lower The Oxygen The Better The Beer By: Mettler Toledo | - Minimizing oxygen
Oxygen in the brewing process is monitored because of its importance on the quality, taste and shelf life of the beer. After fermentation, beer is close to being oxygen free and maintaining this very low oxygen level is important for quality assurance. Therefore O2 uptake during the following separation, filtration, storage and filling processes has to be minimized. To reduce the risk of contamination, permanent and precise oxygen monitoring is required.
Suntory Ensures Quality Of Recovered Co2 With In-line Monitoring By: Mettler Toledo | - Leading brand in China
Established in 1998, Suntory Brewing (Kunshan) Co., Ltd. is another successful development of Japanese Suntory Co., Ltd. in China. It is located in Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province and has an annual beer production capacity of 200,000 tons.
Reduced cost of CO2 use
CO2 is an extremely important raw material in beer production and in the past the brewery had to spend a vast amount of money to purchase high-purity CO2 from external sources. However, a s ... Tags:CO2, In-line Monitoring, Recovering CO2, re-using CO2
Ultrapure Water For Maximum Efficiency Of Solar Cells By: Mettler Toledo | - Ultrapure water in solar cell production
Large quantities of ultra-high quality ultrapure water are required in solar cell production. It is used to clean raw wafers after they are cut from the silicon ingots, after surface texturing, before phosphor diffusion and coating, and during construction of the cells themselves.
The quality of the ultrapure water in the distribution system and after production is monitored in-line using high-precision conductivity measurements and TOC ... Tags:Maximum Efficiency of Solar Cells, Ultrapure Water
Kemira Ensures Product Quality Thanks To Robust Do System By: Mettler Toledo | - Water treatment technology
With expertise in fiber, chemical water treatment and water separation technologies, Finnish chemical industry group Kemira has created an extensive product portfolio.
At its UK facility in Bradford, Kemira manufactures organic flocculants for use in the water treatment industry.
Polymerization
The application in question is a copolymerization involving acrylamide and a quaternary ammonium compound. Monomers and polymer initiators ... Tags:Product Quality, DO System, low oxygen levels
More Accurate Filling With Weight-based Liquids Measuring By: Mettler Toledo | - Protecting Profits
Darmstadt-based Dhler Group, a leading producer of drink, dairy and ice cream ingredients with production facilities in Europe, Asia and America, has implemented the use of weight-based overfill meters to protect profits.
After careful review, Dohler determined that eliminating variances caused by consistency, conductivity, temperature, frothing and bubble generation could reduce their materials costs and ensure more accurate blend and concentrate formulat ... Tags:Accurate Filling, Weight-Based Liquids Measuring
18th Annual Ipdc Set For September: Call For Papers Made By: Mettler Toledo | - This year's conference chair is Fabio Visentin, European Team Leader, Technology & Applications Consultants at METTLER TOLEDO. Focus areas for the 18th Annual IPDC will be Chemical Research & Development, Process Characterization and Crystallization, Process Safety and Scale-up and Manufacturing. Special emphasis will be on Process Analytical Technology/Quality by Design (PAT/QbD), continuous processing & flow chemistry, and kinetics. Papers on chemical or process R&D, Process Analytical Technol ... Tags:process development, Process Analytical Technology, PAT
Mettler Toledo Has Described How To Optimise The Roller Compaction Process Using Its Fbrm By: Mettler Toledo | - A roller compaction process is designed to yield consistent downstream tablet compression, resulting in uniform dissolution and content uniformity. A successful process produces a granule with consistent particle size distribution, density and porosity control. However, inconsistencies occur during granulation scale-up due to a change in raw materials or process dynamics. Collaboration with Patheon demonstrates FBRM at-line to map design space and optimise a series of roller compaction runs whil ... Tags:particle characterisation, downstream process performance
Online Risk Check Analyzes Weighing Risk In Minutes By: Mettler Toledo | - Which environmental conditions influence a balance? How often is a balance supposed to be tested? Knowing the correct answers to these questions saves time and money. These are two of eight questions of the Risk Check: a web-based instrument to analyze the weighing risk of a balance. It optimizes the performance and quality of weighing instruments and its processes. Feeding the Risk Check with real-world data from weighing processes allows for expert advice to be accessed. This valuable service ... Tags:Mock-Audit, Risk Check, Weighing Risk, international weighin
Rossignol Decolletage Sa Ensures High Quality With A Customized Weighing Solution From Mettler Toled By: Mettler Toledo | - Rossignol Decolletage SA is located in Scionzier in the Savoy region of France, a region renowned as a base for the automotive supply industry and home to several hundred small enterprises engaged in the manufacture of high precision metal, plastic and electromechanical parts. The company specializes in bar turning, bending, forging, cutting out, and resistance welding, and also assembles parts - a process that involves a combination of manufacturing techniques.
Chemical Production Enhanced By Mettler-toledo Density Meters By: Mettler Toledo | - SECCO produces ethylene, polyethylene, polypropylene, styrene, polystyrene, butadiene, benzene and toluene, as well as various by-products, using the most advanced process technology in the world.
In the company's quest to produce superior quality products, SECCO considers density determination as an important quality control parameter. Chemical processes require accurate results and demand operator safety that is promoted with the use of METTLER-TOLEDO density meters.
Systematic Hazard Reduction Enhances Process Safety, Profitability By: Mettler Toledo | - METTLER TOLEDO is pleased to introduce the RC1e Process Safety Workstation. This semi-automated workstation, in combination with METTLER TOLEDO iC SafetyTM software, can be used to investigate thermal and hazard risk of a wide range of chemical processes. Enhanced reaction control reduces the risk of large-scale failures that endanger lives, equipment and profits in an increasingly competitive worldwide market.
A Step To Build Strong Physical Therapist Referral Base By: Donna Nocero | - Most physical therapists in private practice have what they think is a successful practice, that is built depends on a few doctors. However, if anything happens to any of one of these guys, their successful practice would cease to exist. Running a practice for years depending on a few doctors that refer 50% of your business, is not safe.
Some Common Back Pain Causes By: Donna Nocero | - Lower Back Pain is a common complaint among many people. The lower back carries most of your weight, so you can see why. The first most common cause of back pain is a muscle strain or a sprain to a ligament. These strains and sprains can occur from a few reasons.
It can't be someone that wears them. No way is that possible, unless they like torture at any cost.
I personally have no clue how woman can wear these Torture Chambers. I am not naive and do, however, realize that society has labeled them a necessary accessory. So women, in general, wear them because they have to for vanity purposes, since so ... Tags:Lumbar Support Products, SI Belts, Mettler, Serola Belts
Pain - Find The Cause, Don't Just Treat The Pain By: Donna Nocero | - Did you know that over 75 million people in the USA alone have some sore of chronic pain and reoccurring pain. Pain is one of the major causes of employees missing work and disability. This is according to research from the Journal of General Internal Medicine published in their issue for June 2008. Believe it or not, no one has been able to figure out the best way to relieve pain.
Is Stretching Good For You By: Donna Nocero | - If we can increase our flexibility this means that we can have a wider range of comfortable movements. The more we can move comfortably then the less likely we are to injure ourselves when lifting heavy objects or exercising.
Stretching
It also gives us the ability to lift more, jump higher and bend more because well stretched muscles actually have greater power when they contract. That is why stretching is important before exercise. ... Tags:Lumbar Support Products, SI Belts, Mettler, Serola Belts, Lo
Lower Back Pain Is A Pain By: Donna Nocero | - Lower Back Pain, affects both those unaccustomed to physical activity and regular exercisers.
The first step to understanding the various causes of low back pain is learning about the normal design anatomy of the tissues of this area. Important structures of the low back that can be related to symptoms there include the bony lumbar spine vertebrae, discs between the vertebrae, ligaments around the spine and discs, spinal cord and nerves, muscles of the low back, in ... Tags:Lumbar Support Products, SI Belts, Mettler, Serola Belts
Mettler Toledo: Incredible Accuracy By: Fabian Toulouse. | - There is no more valued name in the business of scales and measurement than Mettler Toledo, a company that has been expanding its good name for over sixty years. For decades they have been manufacturing an astounding variety of instruments which deliver the highest degree of precision and efficiency available. With uses in laboratories, postal services, and food manufacturing and grocery stores, this company is significantly responsible for the accuracy of the work in many fields.
