iEssential

Our iEssential AKTA service plan gives you cost-effective for your AKTA system or systems. What's included? The iEssential AKTA service plan includes an annual preventative maintenance visit per system, with travel and labour included. We also include a preventative maintenance kit containing all the standard PM parts for each system, so you can keep track of your PM costs. Yo...
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iBasic

Our iBasic AKTA service plan gives you basic preventative maintenance for your AKTA system or systems. What's included? The iBasic AKTA service plan includes an annual preventative maintenance visit per system, with travel and labour included. Any parts required are chargeable as fitted. You can add as many systems as you want into the plan and we'll schedule your PM visit for a ...
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iComplete

Our iComplete AKTA service plan gives you complete peace of mind for your AKTA systems. Comprehensive cover for a single system or a whole lab full! What's included? The iComplete AKTA service plan includes an annual preventative maintenance visit per system, with all PM parts, travel and labour included. You can add as many systems as you want into thee plan and we'll schedule your PM visit...
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Good Housekeeping Practice for Protein Purification Systems

Scientist cleaning protein purification system
We often refer to the instruments running protein purification techniques as the workhorses of the lab. Researchers rely on them to be up and running as standard. The great thing is that these instruments are actually quite simple to keep running well, as long as you follow some good housekeeping tips for sample preparation, buffer management, column cleaning and overall system cleanliness.  Prot...
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IQ/OQ – Peace of Mind for New Equipment Installations

Service Engineer
Whether you are involved in manufacturing, transfer to manufacturing or R&D, if you work in a QC environment you’ve probably heard the term IQ/OQ. IQ (installation qualification) and OQ (operational qualification) are two independent and documented procedures used when a new piece of equipment or plant is being installed and commissioned for use. IQ/OQ  is used to check and test that a system ...
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Software Upgrade – Give your AKTA a Boost

Laboratory laptop
Give your older AKTA a boost with a software upgrade to Windows 7 or 10 OS We often talk to labs who are struggling to maintain the effectiveness of their systems because they are constrained by their software. It’s common to find older AKTA systems being controlled from lab PCs running on old Windows operating systems (XP or earlier) - with the associated networking and upgrade problems that brin...
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AKTA Preventative Maintenance – How important is it?

Preventative maintenance
You’ve selected your protein purification system, justified the capital expenditure and it’s installed and running in your lab. How can you ensure that you maximize your instrument investment and avoid the high costs associated with instrument failure?  (more…)
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Continued Support for AKTA Explorer

AKTA Explorer
What if you’re not ready or not able to move to the next generation of AKTA instruments? For many labs, AKTA Explorer is their workhorse instrument and upgrading isn't an option. There just isn’t the budget or necessity to replace an otherwise satisfactorily working system. The concern for many labs is GE's discontinued servicing of AKTA Explorer from December 2017. Robust and Reliable We know tha...
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Separations

Protein Separations
iLab are specialists in separations. Give us a call if you're looking for instruments or media!
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