Buying laboratory equipment in Tehran
If you don’t have previous experience in the field of buying laboratory equipment and you don’t have a so-called hand on fire, entering this field and trying for it can be a very challenging issue. What is the priority of the equipment, where should you start and how should you get the equipment are all important questions, the answers to which will determine your success or failure in getting the ideal equipment. In this article, we try to give some tips for easier and more efficient shopping for those researchers who have access to the appliance market in Tehran. Stay with us.
The principles
If you are planning to set up a laboratory or if you are planning to provide tools and equipment for a laboratory in an environment such as a university, first of all, you should pay attention to what you want to do in the space you are considering. Since laboratory spaces prefer to be concentrated in a certain area, depending on the type of experiments, you will also need different extraordinary equipment. For example, units of color testing factories use a variety of gloss meters, while packaging factories have to perform leak and vacuum tests on their products, and therefore they need related tools in this unit.
The next step involves preparing the necessary equipment. Although specialized equipment is different in each environment depending on the application, there is a set of general tools and glassware that should be prepared in any case. In the following, we will introduce these devices to you.
The necessities
Necessary tools include operating tools (such as autoclave and bain-marie) and glassware (such as Erlen and Besher). It doesn’t matter what field you work in because eventually, you will find a use for them. The main point is that buying them is easy because they are common in this field, and you don’t need to involve yourself in the details of brands and manufacturing companies.
The most important general equipment of the laboratory is:
• Autoclave for sterilization under pressure with steam
• Boiling bain marie for indirect heating with hot water
• serology bain marie to create a uniform water environment to warm the serum
• oven for sterilizing dishes
• Chemical fumes hood
• Incubator for sample cultivation
• Erlen Ballon shaker to keep mixed materials soluble in liquids
• Hot plate and magnetic hot plate for heating liquids
• microscope
• Colony counter to count the number of colonies in the culture medium
• laboratory scale
• Distiller to produce distilled water
• Centrifuge to separate solid particles from a liquid or divide the liquid mixture into its different components
• Glassware including test tube, spatula, thermometer, dropper, decanter, pipette, burette, Erlen in some models, balloon in some models, desiccator, beaker, sampler, etc.
But what is the next step when the necessary equipment is procured? In the following, we will go to the points that should be taken into consideration when preparing tools for the laboratory you are considering, and they will be helpful for any environment regardless of your purpose.
points to consider
1. Consider your needs first. With the help of other researchers in the field or those who have worked in the area before, make a list of the most important tests to perform. In the first place, specify only the most essential tools, and then go to the products with lower priority. If you intend to complete the tools instead of starting, keep in mind that the old and old tools must be replaced and some new kits are superior compared to the previous ones, so you have to choose carefully in this field.
2. Then estimate your available resources. Now that you know how much equipment you want, estimating the cost of getting them is of prime importance. Their availability is also important, but in Tehran, you can mostly have easy access to the central markets of these tools.
3. Compare products on the market. The purchase price is not the only determining factor, but the range of capabilities and facilities of each device also changes their value. A high-end machine that doesn’t come with this after-sales facility or manual is going to be a far worse buy than a well-known old machine. The capability range also discusses how much measurement accuracy you need depending on your needs, and its importance cannot be overlooked. In this case, you can act based on the brand: well-known and superior manufacturers often meet certain standards in all their products, and accordingly, you can give yourself some peace of mind about buying high-quality tools.
4. Do a final brand review. The duration of activity history, the level of credibility, and the reputation of brands will have a significant effect on your choice. Some manufacturing companies provide information to provide services and have a strong public relations team, adhere to technical standards, and have a good reputation in the market among activists. Collections such as laboratory industries are part of this type, and as a result, procuring products from them is far less risky than buying from unknown and unknown manufacturers whose standard of products is a matter of debate.
Conclusion
In this article, we introduced you to the most important points of buying laboratory equipment in Tehran. First, we discussed the basics of shopping, then we checked the necessary tools, and finally we discussed the tips of preparing the equipment together. Do not forget that what is given in this section is useful for those colleagues and researchers in this field who have not had the experience of doing this work or have worked in this field in a limited way and therefore need a clear and clear path to start their way. In Bakhshi laboratory industries, our goal is to gain satisfaction and help fellow citizens to achieve their goals in this environment, and in this regard, this article has been prepared according to public needs in this matter. We hope that you will be able to make a better decision based on these points and finally use the equipment that you get more optimally.