Pall Corporation Introduces Next Generation AcroPrep™ Advance Filter Plates

Provides superior consistency in critical diagnostic sample preparation applications

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pall Corporation, (NYSE: PLL), a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, has introduced its next generation 96-well filter plate that delivers consistency and reproducibility in applications, such as neonatal screening and multiplexing. The Pall AcroPrep Advance filter plate employs new design features that provide uniform filtration rates, lowers hold-up volumes and ensures consistent sample/bead recovery from the wells.

“These plates have been optimized to ensure superior performance where consistency and reproducibility are critical. Our new plate line offers advanced performance from well-to-well, plate-to-plate and lot-to-lot.”

Pall’s newest AcroPrep filter plates address the most stringent sample preparation requirements while lowering the expenses associated with sample loss and contamination. Redesigned membrane sealing technology maximizes sample recovery and ensures even filtration rates well to well. The optimized outlet tip design minimizes weeping during incubations as well as the formation of post-filtration hanging drops. The biologically inert housing of the plates facilitates low non-specific binding of target analytes, maximizing sample recovery. These new design features translate into superior performance over competitive plates. Examples of this include faster acquisition times for multiplexing applications, as well as more consistent enzymatic responses in neonatal screening assays.

“The AcroPrep Advance filter plates have been developed to address the needs of key diagnostic assays,” said Emily Berlin, Senior Marketing Manager at Pall Life Sciences. “These plates have been optimized to ensure superior performance where consistency and reproducibility are critical. Our new plate line offers advanced performance from well-to-well, plate-to-plate and lot-to-lot.”

Engineered to minimize sample hold-up, the new well design significantly improves filtration rates and sample recovery to ensure assay reproducibility. Plus, the new AcroPrep plates reduce weeping, which is a common problem during incubation periods or after multiple filter-wash-incubation steps. Pall’s new AcroPrep Advance filter plates meet SBS/ANSI guidelines for manual, semi-automated and automated processing. Additional plates in Pall’s product portfolio are used for general filtration, lysate clarification, nucleic acid and protein purification applications.

To learn more about The Pall AcroPrep™ Advance Filter Plates visit www.pall.com/oem .

To order, call 1-800-521-1520 in the U.S./Canada or (+)800-PALL-LIFE in all other locations. E-mail Pall Life Sciences at [e-mail] .

Pall Life Sciences

Pall Life Sciences provides cutting-edge products and services to meet the demanding needs of customers discovering, developing and producing biotech drugs, vaccines and classic pharmaceuticals. Pall technologies are also used to collect and process blood components and help protect patients from hospital-acquired infections. The company’s membranes and membrane devices optimize detection and sample preparation in the drug research, clinical diagnostics, genomics, and proteomics markets. Pall is a leading provider of separation systems and single-use filtration and purification technologies to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to support faster development of new drugs and vaccines that are safer and require less energy and water to produce.

About Pall Corporation

Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL) is a filtration, separation and purification leader providing Total Fluid Management^SM solutions to meet the critical needs of customers in biopharmaceutical, hospital and transfusion medicine, energy and alternative energy, electronics, municipal and industrial water, aerospace, transportation and broad industrial markets. Together with our customers, we foster health, safety and environmentally responsible technologies. The Company’s engineered solutions enable process and product innovation and minimize emissions and waste. Pall Corporation, with total revenues of $2.3 billion for fiscal 2009, is an S&P 500 company with more than 10,000 employees servicing customers worldwide. Pall has been named a top "green company" in 2009 by Newsweek magazine. To see how Pall is helping enable a greener and more sustainable future, visit www.pall.com.

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