Corning Introduces Bar Coded Storage Tubes for Automated Sample Management

Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today announced a new laboratory research innovation to streamline the throughput needs of laboratories: Corning® Bar Coded Storage Tubes. This latest offering broadens Corning’s automation product line and provides researchers with a superior solution for enhanced sample storage, identification, and retrieval.

The new Corning Bar Coded Storage Tubes offer the market a storage solution that synchronizes two codes to the same ID. This significantly limits the risk of confusion or duplication, and enables safe and secure identification of samples. The tubes feature the following attributes:

• a permanently attached, laser-etched 2D code on the base of every tube jacket for automation,
• a linear bar code on the side wall of the tube jacket for bar code scanning at sample collection
  and receiving sites, and
• a marking spot on the side wall for added security.

"We continually strive to bring to market innovative products and technologies that exceed our customers’ needs, helping them improve processes and, ultimately, results," said Michael Briggs, product line manager, drug discovery products, Corning Life Sciences. "Because our customers are currently accessing compounds at multiple points within their sites, synchronization at the point of manufacture is critical. Our new Bar Coded Storage Tubes provide safe, secure, and seamless coordination between sample preparation and secondary screening of high-value lead compounds."

Corning’s Bar Coded Storage Tubes also feature a 2D bar code with higher resolution than products commercially available today. The 14-by-14 pixel resolution, allows more coding space than the traditional 12x12 pixel size, minimizing the possibility of duplication with existing tube sequences. The new, leak-tested tubes offer customers the choice of a screw cap or a septum lid for automation compatibility. The tubes also come equipped with an SBS footprint tube box with a locking feature.

Corning Life Sciences brings new and innovative laboratory technologies to researchers worldwide and helps customers succeed by providing innovative, high-quality products and services in the areas of polymer science, biochemistry and molecular biology, glass melting and forming, surface modification, and characterization science.

Corning’s new 96 1D/2D and 384 2D Bar Coded Storage Tubes are generally available now. To learn more about the Corning Bar Coded Storage Tube or to order any Corning Life Sciences products, please contact a customer service representative at 1-800-492-1110, toll free in the United States, (+1) 1-978-442-2200 internationally, or visit www.corning.com/lifesciences.

About Corning Incorporated

Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on more than 150 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences. Our products include glass substrates for LCD televisions, computer monitors and laptops; ceramic substrates and filters for mobile emission control systems; optical fiber, cable, hardware & equipment for telecommunications networks; optical biosensors for drug discovery; and other advanced optics and specialty glass solutions for a number of industries including semiconductor, aerospace, defense, astronomy and metrology.

SOURCE:Corning