Priorclave built our first industrial autoclave in 1988–and that sterilization equipment is still running reliably, more than 35 years later. What’s our secret?

Thoughtful design.

Priorclave removes every complexity that might become the source of an equipment problem: fewer moving parts to seize up; fewer seals to break; fewer sensors to fail; a time-tested chamber design; a rugged, flexible, fully programmable computerized control system.

The result: less water wasted, less electricity consumed, less time spent on maintenance and repair, greater value at lower cost.

Priorclave Steam Sterilizers: the Best Autoclave for Educational or Research Laboratory

Most autoclave sterilizers are steam-jacketed models that were developed for medical and dental settings. These designs have proven to be extremely wasteful in laboratory, educational, and research settings. Their high part count and finicky operation drive up costs and hamper flexibility. The result is a more expensive, less efficient industrial autoclave that spends more time offline for maintenance and repair.

Priorclave autoclave sterilizers are designed to help you spend more time and budget on your work, and less on your lab equipment. From the start, our sterilizers have been optimized for robust laboratory and industrial use: one to five cycles per day, with extremely flexible programming parameters, able to maintain reliable high-temperature operation for prolonged periods without sacrificing on daily utility. Priorclaves are especially well suited to daily media preparation and waste loads, lab glassware sterilization, quality assurance, and destruction/shelf-life testing.

Priorclave steam sterilizers are uniquely durable and reliable for research.

They last longer, are more easily repaired, and are infrequently offline for maintenance and repair. We build all our autoclaves with touches—like hinged (rather than sliding) doors and cross-contamination fighting Biomaster coatings—that increase ease-of-maintenance and durability.

Priorclave laboratory autoclaves are especially efficient.

When the University of Alabama at Birmingham compared their steam-jacketed autoclaves and non-jacketed Priorclaves side by side, they found that jacketed autoclaves used in excess of 30 times more water—with no corresponding benefit. In the field, Priorclave autoclave operating costs have been documented at more than 80% lower than operating costs for same-capacity, same-capability jacketed autoclaves.

Priorclave industrial autoclaves are flexible.

Because Priorclaves were designed for general lab and industrial use—not narrow medical applications—they have an extremely open design and control system. This has proven extremely useful for research and development, accelerated aging, and labs doing innovative work for which “off-the-shelf” tools have yet to be built.
Priorclave steam sterilizers use a programmable control system to reduce human error.

Every model—from the smallest benchtop to the largest custom pass-through—comes with the same robust programmable control system. Tactrol Custom Control makes it simple to create custom cycles that still permit for a one-button start. With multiple levels of user access and options for separate lab tech and intern/student programs, Tactrol allows for all kinds of laboratory use.

Priorclave stands by our autoclave sterilizers.

Our industrial autoclaves have a three-year limited parts and labor warranty, a 20 year pressure vessel warranty, and unlimited technical support. We also support an international authorized service agent network.