IEC Centra-8R Refrigerated Benchtop Centrifuge with 218 Swing-Out Rotor and Accessories

The IEC Centra-8R refrigerated benchtop centrifuge is engineered for versatile applications in industrial, medical, and scientific laboratories, supporting bioprocessing, molecular diagnostics, and clinical research needs. It features a robust 218 swing-out rotor accommodating up to 3 liters with 4 buckets for 750 mL bottles, facilitating high-throughput sample processing.

Key technical specifications include:

• Maximum relative centrifugal force (RCF): 4,630 × g, essential for efficient cell separation and sample clarification in biotechnology workflows.
• Maximum speed: up to 5,600 rpm, ensuring precise centrifugation protocols required in synthetic biology and molecular cloning.
• Speed accuracy: ±10 rpm, providing reproducible results critical in biopharmaceutical production pipelines.
• Capacity: accommodates microplates, cytological slide carriers, and microsample tubes, supporting diverse sample types used in cell imaging and fluorescence analysis.

The unit features an easy-to-read LED display combined with touchpad controls, enabling manual operation or programming of up to 35 preset centrifugation protocols, advantageous for repeatable procedures in gene editing and molecular biology workflows.

Included accessories optimize versatility:

• IEC 218 swing-out rotor with 4 IEC 750 mL buckets (P/N 3218).
• Two Centrac adapters for 19 × 15 mL tubes each (P/N 5719).
• Two Centrac adapters for 7 × 50 mL tubes each (P/N 5707).

This refrigerated benchtop centrifuge is widely used in applications requiring precise temperature and speed control such as live-cell imaging sample preparation, synthetic biology research, and critical clinical diagnostics workflows, making it indispensable in modern biotechnology laboratories.