The MTF50 is an aseptic table top filling and capping systems designed for opening, filling and closing of pre-capped microtubes. It is an ultra compact industrial machine offering all the benefits of a fully automated production inside the space of a standard Laminar Flow Unit, Biohazard Cabinet or Isolator.

Most diagnostic companies achieve very significant benefits from the consistency of process in filling and capping increasing production yields, optimised sales revenue and reduced error costs.

In the MTF50, the microtubes comes pre-capped and sterilised. Depending on the filling layout, the unit handles fill volumes from 5µl to 2ml at speeds up to 600 units per hour. Euronews recently published a video about one of our clients where the MTF50 Filling and Capping of Pre-capped Microtubes is shown being used on site (from 2.15-2.26).

Using pre-capped sterile microtubes offer three distinct advantages that cannot be meet with systems that handle microtubes and caps separately.

• Maintaining Sterility – The microtubes are only open from the uncapping through the fill and the capping process, which takes 2-3 seconds. Aside from this the internal part of the microtubes and caps are not exposed to any risk of contamination from the time the microtubes are packed at the manufacturer’s site till those 2-3 seconds before they are closed again.

Even if the sealed bags of microtubes are compromised, the internal of the microtube stays sterile and protected.

• Calibration – Calibration is very challenging with ultra small volumes. Evaporation is a factor, and using the pre-capped microtubes means that it is always the same tube and cap that you tare and weigh. This means that the microtube is not open, no evaporation, no risk of contamination and easy SOP’s regarding calibration.

• Cost – Since the MTF50 does not contain a cap sorting mechanism the base cost is very attractive, and it is the most inexpensive way to implement an industrial production unit in a standard laboratory space.

Diagnostic companies tend to produce a large amount of reagents in differing volumes and technical composition. This puts significant demands on the filling system as not one single system is ideal for all.