HydroFlex™ Microplate Washer

The HydroFlex microplate washer is a truly flexible platform that provides excellent automated microplate strip washing and vacuum filtration performance for 96-well microplate formats.

This modular and upgradeable platform is ideal for a wide range of cell-, enzyme- and DNA-based applications in academia, biotech, pharma and clinical diagnostics, reflecting over 30 years of Tecan expertise in advanced liquid handling.

The HydroFlex is designed to provide excellent long-term performance while minimizing maintenance and service costs. The system’s advanced pump system offers a mean time to first failure (MTFF) of more than 40,000 plates, typically corresponding to several years of hassle-free operation.

Integrated application flexibility

The multifunctional HydroFlex microplate washer offers far greater flexibility than a standard plate microplate washer, and features user-interchangeable plate carriers for easy switching between washing and filtration applications to allow:

• ELISA washing - The system provides consistent, high quality washing with very low
  residual volumes of less than 2 μl per well, and features multiple aspiration points for
  flat-bottom well geometries.
• Gentle washing - Allows fine-tuning of the washer to suit your cell type or protein array, providing optimal wash results, with a very gentle drop-wise dispense function ensure minimal cell detachment, even with weakly-adherent cell types.
• Microplate array washing for protein and antibody arrays
• Vacuum filtration - DNA purification by vacuum filtration effectively removes unwanted residues or reaction by-products, and the purified DNA can be easily re-suspended from the filtration membrane plates.
• Magnetic bead washing - Its patent-pending design using two magnets per well efficiently settles the beads at the side of the well to protect them during aspiration, optimizing bead recovery and assay sensitivity.

Features

• Modular design for uncompromised flexibility with an  advanced 3-in-1 solution for all key separation techniques including vacuum filtration, separation of magnetic beads & plate washing
• Full control of critical wash parameters such as speed settings for aspiration and dispense, as well as wash head positioning, allowing fine tuning of the wash protocol to the specific cell-type used.
• Ready for automation of laboratory workflows, the HydroFlexmicroplate washer can be easily integrated onto Tecan's Freedom EVO® or Freedom EVOlyzer® workstations, as well as other automated ELISA platforms, helping users to meet higher throughput requirements.
• Reliable -  designed to provide excellent long-term performance while minimizing maintenance and service costs. The system's advanced pump system offers a mean time to first failure (MTFF) of more than 40,000 plates, typically corresponding to several years of hassle-free operation.