Gilson Celebrates 40 Years of PIPETMAN®

A milestone is fast approaching for Gilson, Inc., as it celebrates 40 years of delivering innovation.  Four decades ago, the PIPETMAN pipette was created as the first adjustable volume pipette on the market with its patented volumeter registered in 1972.  Today, it is still one of the most popular pipettes in labs worldwide.  Since then, Gilson has focused on launching new, innovative products based around the reputable PIPETMAN.

In honor of its anniversary, Gilson will be hosting celebrations worldwide to thank customers for their continued support and will be raffling off special anniversary items throughout the next three months including limited edition PIPETMAN. 

Gilson, Inc., established in the 1950s as Gilson Medical Electronics (GME) Co. in Middleton, WI, was founded by the late Dr. Warren Gilson and originally produced instruments ranging from photographic chart recorders for cardiac catheterization to metal detectors for locating shrapnel. Having designed a device in the 1940s to measure respiratory volumes in a circular format with a digital readout, Gilson combined this with the features and the engineering of a German-made pipette to invent a pipette with a digital readout and counter wheels. It was compact and cheap to make. Importantly, it dispensed accurate volumes of liquid. British scientists were first introduced to PIPETMAN in 1971 and in 1972 the PIPETMAN Classic was launched.

New PIPETMAN® Service Offers (US Only)

Gilson is pleased to announce recent enhancements to our service offers.  Gilson offers a variety of service options to meet the needs of every customer.  Either in your lab or ours, we have the ability to service all major brands of pipettes and always use new, original manufacturer parts for every pipette repair.  A free seal and o-ring are included for most brands of single channel pipettes. Gilson continues to offer quality service that only the manufacturer can deliver—let our factory-trained technicians return your pipettes to optimal condition.  

PIPETMAN Easy Check: A great way to check your pipettes’ performance in between calibration services. This pipette service includes internal and external cleaning, visual and functional inspection, leak test, gravimetric check and a detailed report.

PIPETMAN Repair and Calibration Level 1: Pipette repair and calibration which includes a full internal and external cleaning and decontamination, visual and functional inspection, repair, adjustment and calibration. You will also receive a calibration label and a detailed calibration certificate for each pipette.

Data is collected with 2 weighings at the low and high volumes. Perfect for academic labs!

PIPETMAN Repair and Calibration Level 2: This service option is the same as Level 1 but includes more data on the calibration certificate. This service level includes a full internal and external cleaning and decontamination, visual and functional inspection, repair, adjustment and calibration. You will also receive a calibration label and a detailed calibration certificate for each pipette.

Data is collected with 4 weighings at the low and high volumes. Our most popular option, this level meets the requirements of most labs.

PIPETMAN Repair and Calibration Level 3: This service option provides the most amount of data as well as "As Found" information on your pipettes. This service level also includes a full internal and external cleaning and decontamination, visual and functional inspection, repair, adjustment and calibration. You will also receive a calibration label and a detailed calibration certificate for each pipette.

5 weighings are collected at the low, mid, and high volumes before any work is begun on the pipettes. Then 10 weighings at the low, mid and high volumes are collected after the pipettes are repaired and calibrated. This level is suitable for regulated labs and any facilities that require As Found data.

As always, Gilson also offers customized options to meet your lab’s unique needs. Please contact our service experts at techsupport@pipetman.com for more information.

Gilson, Inc. Introduces the GX-241 Liquid Handler

A compact,versatile liquid handler from the liquid handling experts

Gilson, Inc., an industry leader in purification systems for HPLC, SPE, and GPC clean-up introduces the GX-241 Liquid Handler, the newest liquid handler to join the dependable GX Liquid Handling product line.

The GX-241 Liquid Handler is a compact liquid handler ideally suited for applications and labs where bench space is at a premium.  The GX-241 Liquid Handler provides the perfect balance of size, performance, and capabilities.  The instrument is being introduced first as a liquid handler and auto-sampler, with additional configurations to follow for injection and collection and solid phase extraction. 

“Being able to efficiently and effectively perform required tasks within a limited amount of bench space has become a real concern for many laboratories.” said Atika El Sayed, Chief Executive Officer of Gilson. “The market expressed a need for a small footprint liquid handler with injection and collection capabilities and we listened. The GX-241 was developed to satisfy this request.”

The GX-241 Liquid Handler features a large injection volume range of 1 µL up to 5 mL using a minimal dead volume direct injection design.  The liquid handler also features two transfer ports for delivering samples to off-bed detection devices in Flow Injection Applications (FIA).  The two rack capacity liquid handler has the ability to hold hundreds of samples ranging from 2 mL vials to 100 mm test tubes.  The flexible platform, in addition to tubes and vials, holds up to 4 standard or deep well 96 well microplates.  

For more information about Gilson, Inc. products or services, visit www.gilson.com.

Gilson, Inc. Introduces TRILUTION® LH v3.0

Gilson, Inc., an industry leader in manufacturing automated sample preparation systems, has released TRILUTION® LH v3.0, a complete software solution for all Liquid Handling (LH), Solid Phase Extraction (SPE), and now Automation applications. TRILUTION LH v3.0 is Gilson’s most user-friendly, powerful and flexible LH software yet.

“Gilson TRILUTION LH v3.0 is a powerful and intuitive software package for all of Gilson’s automation instrumentation,” said Atika El Sayed, Chief Executive Officer of Gilson. “With this single software package, our customers have complete control of everything … from the simplest peristaltic pump to the most complex liquid handlers.”

Built on the proven success of TRILUTION® LH v2.0, this updated software package has incorporated new features such as scheduling capabilities for time-critical methods, enhanced 3^rd party device control (GEARS), global variables, Mobile Wells, Mobile Rack creation, and Task Property Page creation. With all of these new features, TRILUTION LH v3.0 opens the door to a vast array of new applications, which can now be addressed with Gilson’s liquid handling offer. To find out more about the new TRILUTION LH v3.0 software, visit www.gilson.com.

TRILUTION LH v3.0 was awarded the Laboratory Equipment 2012 Readers' Choice Award in the Software Category.