Porvair Sciences has confirmed that 2016 will see record sales of its Ultravap and Minivap ranges of blowdown evaporators to laboratories worldwide.

The company first began selling nitrogen blowdown evaporators for microplate sample drying in 1999. Offering unmatched ease of integration into robotic liquid handling workflows, the latest Porvair microprocessor controlled evaporators, the Ultravap Mistral and Ultravap Levante, has consolidated their position as a leading international supplier of microplate evaporators.

Marketing Director Steve Knight commented “The ability to integrate a robot-ready evaporator into the sample preparation workflow has significant advantages in biological sample analysis by LC/MS. By removing the evaporation bottleneck, the laboratory workflow can be fully automated on popular robotic liquid handling platforms such as those from Tecan, Beckman, Hamilton, Agilent and Perkin Elmer. We are seeing more and more customers who want to take advantage of the Ultravap “p