Sterilizers & Autoclaves News

29 Minute cycle for Wrapped instruments, and 4 minutes Flash cycle for unwrapped. The come up time is 12 minutes. 208V three phase. Chamber size is 15″ dia x 29.5″ deep. The EHS is the first and only high speed, high vacuum, high capacity, hospital grade sterilizer with FDA cleared flash cycle now available for your office. A built in vacuum
pump and steam generator allows for increased load size and dramatically reduces total cycle time. The closed door drying system provides a faster and more thorough drying cycle. Seven automatic cycles are available. Five sterilization cycles and two test cycles. The EHS sterilizer is a double-wall autoclave designed to cover a large of applications for hospitals, medical centers, operating rooms, as well as private clinics and dental offices. This tabletop autoclave is designed for sterilization of medical and surgical materials such as packed and wrapped solids and instruments

Fully automatic drying using heat and vacuum without the need to open chamber lid. Built-in access port for independent thermosensor and temperature recorder option.
Pre-vacuum cycle completely eliminates cold spots formed by air pockets at initiation of cycle for rapid and optimum sterilization efficiency. Safety features: Over-temperature power cutoff, over-pressure power cutoff, low water power cutoff, and pressure relief valve.
Self-contained system without the need for an outside steam source or plumbing for venting. Bacteria filter protects sterilized load from the potential of recontamination.
On-board service diagnostics for rapid troubleshooting.

Tomy’s vertical loading autoclaves accommodate a wide range of items. Small items like petrie dishes and test tubes are easily accommodated in the stacking baskets while large items like a fermenter or a 25 liter carboy may are also available for sterilizing liquids.

Microprocessor and software. The Systec V-Series autoclaves have “comprehensive intelligence”: Pressure control is via an electronic pressure transducer. In addition, there is a flexible temperature sensor in the sterilization chamber or in a reference vessel (in the case of liquids) and a further sensor at the coldest part of the chamber, the condensate outlet. The microprocessor, specially developed for our laboratory autoclaves, controls all relevant functions such as steam pressure, temperature and sterilization time as well as options such as rapid cooling, pre- and post-vacuum and drying.

This articles may sound like a sales letter … but, let me tell you somehting … if you need a 20x20x38 chamber? or larger … this is the autoclave to get.
The least expensive of them all. Simple to use, and they work like a freight train.

What’s the big deal about Tomy autoclaves?
They are portable, and that’s why it is so popular.
Available to ship within 10 days of placement of order.

The Tuttnauer manual autoclaves and sterilizers are still the most reliable autoclaves made. It is not as comfortable to use as the complete automatic one, however, this one works, and most important when and if it breaks down, its so easy to trouble shoot and fix. Parts are not that expenseive as the computerized ones, and are easly available to replace.

Zotefoams’ is U.K. based and its main manufacturing process is particularly energy-intensive, involving cross-linking polyolefins in large autoclaves under high pressure and at elevated temperatures.

On 10 August 2004, U.K. polyolefin foam maker Zotefoams has warned that higher energy costs will present “a major challenge” for the company this year. The company raised sales and profits in the first six months of the year.

Announcing its interim results, the Croydon-based firm expresses its fear of increasing its energy bills significantly. This raise is expected since the present supply arrangements will expire in October. They are currently reviewing all other options, including selling price rises, with respect to these and other inflationary cost increases.

The company managed to improve its financial performance over the last six months. When compared to with the same period last year, it recorded a 7% growth in sales and profits to £13m (E19.5m) and £870,000 (E1.3m) respectively.

Operationally, the company’s North American plant reached a new production record in June and the U.K. plant had new high-pressure capacity autoclave commissioned in April.

Chairman Bill Fairservice stated that, on the overall view the company is believed to be in good shape to face the challenges it anticipates for the second half of the year. And investment in new product development is showing promising signs for the medium term.

World Waste Technologies, Inc., based in San Diego, California, is in its early stage, a company engaged in the waste recycling and pulp manufacturing industry.

In experimental conditions, it has processed small amounts of municipal solid waste to successfully reduce the waste’s quantity and yield a grade of cellulose fiber suitable as a partial furnish replacement in unbleached packaging products. More information on World Waste is available at www.worldwastetech.com.

On Feb 24, 2005, World Waste Technologies, Inc. announced that it has received $2 million in additional funding from an institutional investor. The world Waste Technologies Inc. has come to an agreement with the investor, to outsource the fund to the public in terms of shares, so as to acquire and additional income for its plant under construction.

On confirming about the financing, World Waste issued 800,000 Units, each Unit comprised of one share of common stock and warrants to acquire up to an additional 0.25 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.01, at a purchase price of $2.50 a Unit. The company has agreed with the investor to register the resale of these shares in accordance with the Securities Act of 1933.

Thomas L. Collins, World Waste’s, chief executive officer announced that, the has making significant progress in the construction of its first facility. Several pieces of equipment have arrived, including the three largest and most expensive pieces; the two autoclaves and the twin wire press are on site for which they are fully paid.

But the company still needs to raise a significant amount of additional capital. This new funding would certainly help in our ongoing efforts to raise the funds to complete this facility.

World Waste is in the process of installing Pressurized Steam Classification Vessels, and pulp cleaning and screening equipment as part of its planned 500-ton per day municipal solid waste processing plant in Anaheim, CA. The Pressurized Steam Classification Vessels will enable World Waste to efficiently extract cellulose fiber from municipal solid waste that can be resold to paper and cardboard manufacturers in the form of a wetlap product.

Safe Harbor Statement

World Waste Technologies Inc in a press release includes certain “Forward-Looking Statements” within the meaning of section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements regarding potential results and future plans and objectives of World Waste, are forward-looking statements that involve various risks and uncertainties.

There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate. Actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations include, but are not limited to, those factors that are disclosed under the heading “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in our documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Other risk factors may include, our ability to obtain financing on acceptable terms, or at all, cost overruns in connection with the construction of our plant, working capital constraints, fluctuation in quarterly results, and increased competition for the fields targeted by the company, our ability to commence operations as scheduled, the economical operation of the process we intend to operate and our ability to protect the proprietary technology we use.

Further, the company operates in an industry sector where securities values are highly volatile and may be influenced by economic and other factors beyond the company’s control, such as announcements by competitors and service providers.

Delegates at a workshop on solid waste management organized by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCCI), the Indo-British Scholars Association and Concern for Calcutta, were told the state government would install the autoclave and related equipment in smaller towns and semi-rural areas for disposal of bio-wastes, but NGOs and other social welfare associations would have to run them as partners of the government.

The Principal Secretary of the Health and Family Welfare Department of the state, Asim Barman said that the West Bengal state government would like non-government organizations and welfare societies to operate autoclaves set up by the government for disposing off bio-wastes in smaller town and semi-urban areas in the state.

It is not only about creating a new market for autoclaves and other connected equipment and waste-related services, but it is also a proposal that would lead to safe disposal of hazardous solid waste. This bio-hazardous waste is currently being dumped in open spaces and into water bodies throughout he state and the country.

Barman said from April 1, all state hospitals would mandatorily segregate bio-medical wastes into three categories — infectious, anatomical wastes and other wastes.

A bio-waste processing and recycling unit set up by a private investor would be collecting materials from hospitals. The state government owned hospitals were the largest polluters in terms of bio-medical waste generation

Khokan Mukherjee, speaking on behalf of Concern for Calcutta, said the country had witnessed a significant increase in municipal solid waste (MSW) in the last few years. The per capita MSW per day ranged from 100 grams in small towns to 500g in large urban concentrations.

The average volume of per capita waste generation per day was 468 grams. The amount of waste generated per capita was estimated to increase rapidly.

The partners such as NGO’s, social welfare organizations etc. would also have to collect wastes from government and private hospitals. The quantum of waste generated from state hospitals in smaller towns and semi-urban areas would be limited.

To justify the investment in autoclaves, the partner organizations would be encouraged to collect bio-medical wastes from private clinics and nursing homes at a charge.