Thermo Fisher Scientific SmartPlate

Thermo Fisher Scientific’s SmartPlate is a robust, easy-to-handle, sustainable plate design for prepared culture media products, designed to support the latest automated and manual methods for the analysis of microbiological samples for clinical, food safety testing and pharmaceutical laboratories.

Fully compatible with all available automated specimen processors, the SmartPlate design brings together Thermo Scientific Oxoid and Thermo Scientific Remel prepared culture media with a universal plate format for efficient and high-throughput isolation, identification, differentiation and screening of samples. The technology offers a sustainable assay plate design that is said to reduce the resin materials used to manufacture each plate, as well as minimise laboratory waste due to its durability.

The design harnesses stacking rings to enhance the stackability and ease of transport for a large number of sample plates in a single movement. This is said to improve manual handling around the laboratory, between facilities and within automated-handling installations. By stacking the SmartPlate formats, laboratories can also maximise the valuable capacity of laboratory workspaces, including refrigerators and incubators.