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Make new friends but keep the old,<\/i>
\nOne is silver and the other gold.<\/i>
\nA circle\u2019s round, it has no end,<\/i>
\nThat’s how long I want to be your friend<\/i>
\n\u2014 traditional Girl Scout campfire song<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Priorclave North America CEO Barbra Wells was recently invited to the West Indies to present on laboratory sustainability<\/a>. This gave Barbra and other members of Priorclave\u2019s team the opportunity to visit old friends, such as the staff at WASCO in neighboring St. Lucia<\/a>. But it also offered the opportunity for a surprise reunion at the CARIRI headquarters on the St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n

CARIRI is the Caribbean Industrial Research Institute<\/a>, a government agency founded in 1970 with technical and financial assistance from the United Nations\u2019 Development Programme (UNDP) and Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). Today CARIR provides technical support and laboratory services to local industries in the Caribbean, including agribusiness innovators, biotech startups, and manufacturers. CARIR\u2019s duties regularly include providing laboratory and field testing services, consulting, supporting research and development efforts, and offering worker training.<\/p>\n

While visiting CARIRI, Barbra and her colleague Lee Oakley (Sales Director at Priorclave\u2019s home offices in London) were (re)introduced to this old friend:<\/p>\n

\"Priorclave<\/p>\n

Here Lee is shown standing next to an early \u201cstandard\u201d Priorclave: a 150 L front-loading cylindrical-chambered research-grade autoclave. This model featured an older door style with hand bolts (rather than the current lever-based dual interlock design) and the first version of the Tactrol Control System<\/a>. This autoclave was designed and built in the company\u2019s first decade\u2014in 1997!\u2014and is still running to this day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was so old and well-used,\u201d Lee remarked, \u201cI didn\u2019t realize it was a Priorclave until I saw the logo on the control panel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimate Reliability: Going Strong After 27 Years<\/h2>\n

Despite its age\u2014this autoclave was built the year J.K. Rowling published her first Harry Potter novel\u2014Lee\u2019s long-lost friend still bears all the hallmarks of a Priorclave: a jacketless round chamber, flexible programmable controls, energy efficiency, low water consumption, low maintenance, and high reliability.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not like this autoclave has been sitting in the corner for 27 years,\u201d explains Priorclave North America CEO Barbra Wells, who snapped the picture of this reunion. \u201cThey use this autoclave every day, and have since it was installed, sterilizing laboratory glassware and waste loads. They love that it\u2019s ridiculously durable, and they love it for its reliability. They\u2019re also loving the service. For the first time since 1997, they had a service need\u2014a solenoid valve\u2014that they contacted us about just before we left for this trip. As it turned out, the display had also grown very dim over time, and so we are sending them a replacement for that, too. But everything else they\u2019ve needed over the years to maintain this autoclave, they\u2019ve been able to easily get at the local hardware in Trinidad.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the essence of what Priorclave hopes to provide every customer in the world: a rugged, efficient, cost-effective autoclave with a long, hassle-free working lifespan, so people doing important work can focus their energy (and budgets) on getting that work done.<\/p>\n

Since 1988, Priorclave has been supplying non-jacketed, research-grade autoclaves to often neglected markets anywhere in the world. Looking for an autoclave that will get the job done for years to come? Barbra and her team are here to help<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Make new friends but keep the old, One is silver and the other gold. 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