Savant Instruments, Inc. 100 Colin Drive Holbrook, NY 11741-4306 US Toll-free: 1-800-634-8886 Tel: (+1) 516-244-2929 Fax: (+1) 516-244-0606
Savant Instruments, Inc., has developed and produced quality laboratory instruments for over 35 years. The originator and world leader in centrifugal vacuum concentration, Savant continually redefines its product lines with innovative improvements that simplify research. Serving the biomedical, analytical, pharmaceutical, and environmental markets, Savant offers space-saving, low-maintenance products for sample preparation, molecular biology, gel drying, centrifugation, and solvent recovery.
History Savant
Savant evolved in 1960, changing its name from Servo Nuclear, and its focus from nuclear accessories to high-voltage electrophoresis equipment. Through 1975, Savant designed and sold the first fraction collector, with a single moving head, and the first thermoelectrically cooled electrophoresis apparatus, for hepatitis screening.
Savant's first SpeedVac was introduced in 1975 and sold to Dr. Gerald Edelman, Rockefeller University, later a Nobel Prize recipient. Although the term "centrifugal desiccator" appeared in the literature as early as 1955, SpeedVac was the first commercial instrument, though little more than a rotor in a glass desiccator housed inside a wooden box. (Still fully operational, SpeedVac #1 was recently returned for Savant's "museum" collection.) Later versions introduced vacuum and radiant heat to hasten drying, vapor recovery technology, Teflon coatings for chemical resistance, and space-saving integration.
SpeedVac , traditionally used for small samples where total solute recovery is necessary, was prescribed as the instrument of choice for drying ethanol precipitates of DNA (Maniatis et al., 1982. Molecular Cloning: A laboratory manual. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY). In use today across varied disciplines, SpeedVac concentrators are truly important research tools. Savant's other major product lines include SpeedFuge Centrifuges, SpeedGel and other gel drying products, and our newly introduced instruments for molecular biology: Gene Runner Temperature Cyclers, Gene Roller Hybridization Ovens, and the Gene Transformer Electroporator.
Savant's growth is worldwide, with ~36% of current business conducted offshore. In 1992, Savant became the first US-based LSI division to achieve ISO 9001 certification, a measure of continued commitment to exceptional quality. Today's success results from continual upgrade of core instrumentation, with a view toward developing state-of-the-art instruments for tomorrow.
E-C Apparatus Corporation 100 Colin Drive Holbrook, NY 11741-4306 US Toll-free: 1-800-634-8886 Tel: (+1) 516-244-2929 Fax: (+1) 516-244-0606
Since 1952, E-C Apparatus has been a leader and innovator in the field of biological molecule separations. E-C is internationally known for its electrophoresis power supplies, as well as systems for horizontal and vertical gels, mini and sequencing gels, isoelectric focusing tube gels, electroblotting, immunoelectrophoresis/immunodiffusion, transmission densitometers, and other excellent products. Savant/E-C products are designed, developed, manufactured, marketed, and shipped directly from our new, combined headquarters in Holbrook, NY.
History E-C Apparatus
E-C Apparatus was founded in March 1952 by Dr. Samuel Raymond, a Ph.D. chemist studying for his M.D. at Columbia University (NY). While working there in biological research to pay his way through medical school, he discovered the need for a large preparative electrophoretic device, which he invented and produced at home for his own laboratory. He called the device an "electro-convection apparatus", and his newly founded company "E-C Apparatus". Other early products included a paper electrophoresis device, and a novel countercurrent fractionator used by Dr. Robert Holley in his pioneering Nobel Prize-winning work (1968) on DNA isolation/purification.
Throughout its history, E-C has recorded a number of "firsts" in new product introductions. Raymond was among the first to do significant research in developing the acrylamide gel electrophoresis procedure in 1959; in the early 1960s, E-C was the first to manufacture a commercial device for this important separation technique. The term "electroblot " is an E-C trademark for the first commercial system for electrotransfer of macromolecules to hybridization membranes.
In the mid-1980s, E-C emerged as the US market leader in electrophoresis power supplies. It is estimated by various independent market studies that E-C power supplies account for well over 50% of all those sold in the US. The EC105 250V unit enjoys the reputation of being the top-selling electrophoresis power supply in the world; more have been sold than any other in history. An independent market research study done in 1991 by Phortech International shows customer satisfaction with E-C to be higher than with any other leading brand.
E-C continues its dominance of the electrophoretic power supply market, private-labeling instruments for a dozen companies worldwide, shipping more units than all US manufacturers combined, and producing more models than any manufacturer in the world. E-C's success comes from its adherence to the principles of reliability, simplicity, value, and excellent service.
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