Product Features

CEO Max discusses the different factors to consider when deciding on which micropipettor brands to purchase, and when it makes sense to purchase nonsterile tips.

Read about a great product which is similar in price but much improved in features to a ubiquitous lab item. Also, Max relates yet another War Story, and we explain three different ways you can become an LPS customer - it's your option!

Some say customer service is going the way of the dodo. At LPS, we say it's alive and well! Read on to learn more, and find out about some innovative products at the same time...

Our pipet tip classification system helps eliminate guesswork when selecting the correct tip for your brand of pipettor.

Any distributor sales rep who has never called on a wastewater treatment lab or a paper mill should not be eligible for a promotion. It’s not just the unforgettable smells that you can never forget. The labs you see in many of the smaller facilities are not the neat-and-tidy sort. The EPA and the state environmental regulators require that testing be performed and there is a level of accreditation for the person reporting the results.

● Hach, a Danaher company, has achieved a dangerously high percentage of market share in the water testing market.

● Lovibond and Taylor Technologies have been in this space for far longer, and both offer equivalent products or better technologies at much better pricing.

● Consumers need to push back against these policies to prevent a monopoly from forming.

From tap water to LC/MS Grade Ultra-Pure water, CAS #7732-18-5 is the one chemical found in every lab.

From Type 1 to Type 4, your lab will most likely use them all.

- Proprietary vs. “Universal” tips.

- What are the most common reasons tips “don’t fit?”

- Devising a classification system for pipet tips.

- Why tips for pipettors larger than 3ml (“macro” tips) are so hard to classify.

- Using this classification system to search for the tips you need.

Working in a lab means you are going to be working with substances that just aren’t good for your health.  This might be infectious agents or chemicals.  In both cases, the risk may be very low or it may be extremely lethal or anything in between.

The most common vectors for entry into your body are through the skin, inhalation or ingestion.  We will be focusing here on the skin vector and specifically on hand protection.

In all the years I have been dealing with labs, I can only think of one occasion where people were doing actual testing to see if the gloves they were using would actually protect the wearer!

Is this the position you have been put in by your pipettor manufacturer? Have they convinced you that if you do not use their brand of tips no matter what the cost that you will be (insert gasp here…) introducing error into your experiments that may jeopardize your results? Why take the risk. Just accept this and bury your head in the sand. It makes your wallet much more accessible to them!