WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Instrument Business Outlook (IBO) has awarded the Thermo Scientific VersaCool Refrigerated Circulating Bath with the Silver Award for excellence in industrial design for laboratory equipment. The VersaCool Refrigerated Circulating Bath design innovations include space-saving headless control technology, energy efficiency and advanced safety features.
The annual IBO Design Awards recognize excellence in the industrial design of analytical instruments, portable analytical instruments and laboratory equipment. The winners of the 2014 awards demonstrate how industrial design can improve a product’s functionality and the end-user’s experience.
“VersaCool baths deliver important advancements to maximize productivity and safety in the lab for life science and academic researchers, pharmaceutical developers and industrial applications,” said Howard Kopech, vice president and general manager, temperature control products, Thermo Fisher Scientific. “We are extremely honored to receive this award from IBO. This recognition affirms the vision of innovation we had when we began to design our new VersaCool bath.”
“We are pleased to honor Thermo Fisher with this award for their Thermo Scientific VersaCool bath,” said Tanya Samazan, managing editor at IBO. “We felt the innovative and functional design that maximizes space and safety clearly distinguished it from other instruments in this category.
The innovative features of the VersaCool bath include:
- First-of-its-kind “headless” technology design removes the heating coils and pumping and control head from the bath area, allowing safer access and freeing up valuable space to allow more samples in the same footprint
- An intuitive front panel touch screen display ensures easy operation
- Global voltage automatically detects the appropriate frequency and voltage to enable operation anywhere in the world
- Advanced communications and control features, including Bluetooth® and remote wireless monitoring, ensure that samples are being properly maintained
About Instrument Business Outlook
Instrument
Business Outlook (IBO), a bi-monthly newsletter
published by Strategic Directions International, Inc. for the analytical
and life science instrument industry, grants the annual IBO Design
Awards for excellence in the industrial design of analytical
instruments, portable analytical instruments and laboratory equipment.
For more information, please visit www.thermoscientific.com/versacool.
About Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc
is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of $17 billion and
50,000 employees in 50 countries. Our mission is to enable our customers
to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We help our customers
accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges,
improve patient diagnostics and increase laboratory productivity.
Through our four premier brands – Thermo Scientific, Life Technologies,
Fisher Scientific and Unity Lab Services – we offer an unmatched
combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and
comprehensive support. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.
