
GripTips for Benchtop Pipetting Systems Perfecting The Connection Between Pipetting Head And Tips
Perfecting The Connection Between Pipetting Head And Tips
Perfecting the connection between pipetting head and tips
Do your pipette tips ever loosen, leak or fall off? This is a common issue in laboratories, caused by the use of universal pipette tips. Losing a tip during assay preparation can ruin the entire assay; a reliable seal is essential for accurate pipetting.
INTEGRA has redesigned the connection between the pipette tip and the tip fitting to resolve this issue. GripTip pipette tips perfectly match the multi-lobe tip fitting, snapping firmly on during loading. This guarantees a perfect seal on every tip, preventing them from loosening, leaking or completely falling off. All tips are precisely aligned horizontally, enabling accurate touch-offs, even when pipetting with 384 tips.
GripTips suitable for our benchtop pipetting platforms undergo additional quality control procedures – such as a secondary straightness test – to guarantee perfect targeting of wells for automatic pipetting or simultaneous pipetting with up to 384 tips. The tip racks are also reinforced to withstand the forces required to load 384 tips.
How it works
Precise and consistent tip seal ensures that all tips on VIAFLO 96, VIAFLO 384, and ASSIST PLUS are precisely at an identical height for reliable touch offs and consistent pipetting results. An additional tip straightness inspection process ensures all pipette tips access wells even when dispensing to a 384 well plate.
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GripTip Pipette tips which never leak or fall off
Losing a tip during an assay preparation can ruin the entire assay and a reliable sealing is of key importance for accurate pipetting.
INTEGRA has redesigned the connection between pipette tip and tip fitting to resolve this issue. The unique GripTip pipette tips are comfortably loaded and ejected without any physical effort due to a power assisted mechanism activated by a push button. The loading procedure for all benchtop pipetting platforms also guarantees that GripTips are not touched by the user and remain sterile.
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Extended length design
INTEGRA’s GripTips LONG feature an extended length design enabling easy access into labware types such as tubes and deep well blocks.
The extended length design also reduces PCR cross contamination as the elongated tip prevents the pipette shaft from contacting the wall of the PCR tubes.
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Low retention GripTip pipette tips
Viscous samples, detergents and other low surface tension liquids tend to interact with standard pipette tips forming a thin liquid film on the pipette tip inner wall. This effect leads to pipetting inaccuracy and inconsistency as well as loss of precious reagents. INTEGRA uses a unique polypropylene blend to mold Low Retention GripTips with heightened hydrophobic properties. Using Low Retention GripTips prevents low surface tension samples from spreading out and “wetting” the inner wall of the tips, allowing them to bead-up for a maximum liquid recovery.
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Assured quality
Our GripTips are manufactured from 100% virgin polypropylene under strictly controlled conditions. All GripTips are certified free of RNase, DNase, pyrogens, PCR inhibitors and endotoxins.
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GripTip Packaging Options
1) Tip Racks with single inserts in a 96-tip configuration – Reinforced Tip Racks for 300 and 1,250 µl straightness tested GripTips for use with 96-channel pipetting heads and automated multichannel pipettes on the ASSIST/ASSIST PLUS.
2) XYZ Tip Racks – Extra sturdy and in an SBS format to withstand the loading forces from automated multichannel pipettes (ASSIST/ASSIST PLUS), and 96 and 384channel pipetting heads (12.5 to 125 µl tips). GripTips are ionized to dissipate existing static, and then loaded into carbon-filled, antistatic XYZ boxes.
3) GREEN CHOICE refill system – an environmentally friendly refill system allows you to reuse your existing Tip Racks, reducing plastic waste by 60 % (300 and 1,250 µl tips only).
See it work
Parts and numbers
- GripTips in a 96-tip rack configuration
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GripTips in a 96-tip rack configuration
Reinforced racks and refills (300 µl and 1250 µl)
GripTips in Racks
The tip racks are reinforced to guarantee proper loading of the GripTips.
Tip Size Color Code Description Sterile Filter Sterile Non-Sterile 300 µl Green 5 racks of 96 tips 6435 6434 6433 1250 µl Blue 5 racks of 96 tips 6445 6444 6443 GripTips in racks to use with 96-channel pipetting heads GREEN CHOICE Refills
The GREEN CHOICE is a environmentally friendly packaging of GripTips. Each GREEN CHOICE contains five GripTip inserts of non-sterile GripTips to refill the current tip racks.
Tip Size Color Code Description Non-Sterile 300 µl Green 5 inserts of 96 tips 6432 1250 µl Blue 5 inserts of 96 tips 6442 GREEN CHOICE refills for 96-channel pipetting heads - GripTips in a 384-tip rack configuration for benchtop
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GripTips in a 384-tip rack configuration for benchtop
XYZ racks (12,5 µl to 125 µl)
XYZ racks
12.5, 50 and 125 µl GripTips in a 384-tip rack configuration for automated multichannel pipettes (ASSIST/ASSIST PLUS), and 96- and 384-channel pipetting heads. Racks have an SBS footprint and are reinforced for optimal tip loading. In addition, carbon-filled, XYZ racks prevent static build-up and allow for easy GripTip attachment each and every time.
Tip Size Color Code Description Sterile Filter Sterile Non-Sterile 12.5 µl Purple 5 XYZ racks of 384 tips 6455 6454 6453 12.5 µl LONG Purple 5 XYZ racks of 384 tips 6405 6404 6403 12.5 µl SHORT Purple 5 XYZ racks of 384 tips 6475 - - 50/125 µl Yellow 5 XYZ racks of 384 tips 6465 6464 6463 - Low retention tips
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Low retention tips
For VIAFLO 96/384 Pipetting Heads and automated pipetting on the ASSIST/ASSIST PLUS
Tip Size Color Code Description Sterile Filter Sterile Non-Sterile 12.5 µl LONG Purple 5 racks of 384 tips 6505 6504 6503 12.5 µl Purple 5 racks of 384 tips 6555 6554 6553 50/125 µl Yellow 5 racks of 384 tips 6565 6564 6563 300 µl Green 5 racks of 96 tips 6535 6534 6533 1250 µl Blue 5 racks of 96 tips 6545 6544 6543 - WIDE BORE tips
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WIDE BORE tips
96-tip configuration for 300 and 1,250 µl pipettes and pipetting heads only.
Tip Size Color Code Description Sterile Filter Sterile Non-Sterile 300 µl Green 5 racks of 96 tips 6635 6634 6633 1250 µl Blue 5 racks of 96 tips 6645 6644 6643
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