Your Strategic Partner in the Fight Against COVID-19

Your Strategic Partner in the Fight Against COVID-19
Component Supply and Contract Manufacturing for
ELISA-Based COVID-19 Antibody Test Devices – PoC Analyzers and Large-Scale Test Robots

Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG, Auf der Roemerstrasse 1, 76228 Karlsruhe, Germany
Phone +49 721 4846-0, Fax +49 721 4846-1019, Email info@pi.ws, www.pi.ws

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Your Strategic Partner in the Fight Against COVID-19

Large-Scale ELISA Analyzers
The indirect ELISA test is a fast and cost-efficient way to test
whether a human has already produced antibodies against
COVID-19 and has thus already developed immunization.
These tests can provide valuable information about herd
immunization of a population after conducting statistical tests
within this population. The results can be used as an indicator
for when and how in detail an exit from a shut-down situation
in a country should be effectuated.

Point-of-Care ELISA Analyzers
The rapid and low-cost testing of humans for COVID-19
antibodies is best done directly at the doctor’s office or at thepoint-of-care.

Large-scale ELISA testing requests automated microplateloading, processing and reading procedures. Typically anindirect ELISA method is used here, as a result either a change
in colour or a chemo-luminescence of the processed
substrate is used.
Precise and reliable xyz motion systems and motorized
pipetting systems are key elements for systems carrying out
these handling tasks.

Blood Samples for ELISA Testing

PoC ELISA analyzers typically work with cartridges hosting a
microfluidic reaction process. This microfluidic system needs
one or several engines to propel the liquid, either in form ofsucking it inside, pumping it forward or mixing liquidcomponents. For these tasks, PI offers piezo-based solid stateelements such as piezo blocks, plates, benders or tubes withoutstanding precision and reliability as well as almost no wear
at all.

ELISA Uses Antibodies and Enzyme to Identify a SubstancePhysik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG, Auf der Roemerstrasse 1, 76228 Karlsruhe, Germany
Phone +49 721 4846-0, Fax +49 721 4846-1019, Email info@pi.ws, www.pi.ws

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Dosing and Motion Solutions from PIFrom piezo actuators for microdosing to xyz motion solutions
to contract manufacturing: PI offers various levels ofcooperation.
Precise and reliable motion drives for your xyz robotic
duties: Here we are offering a broad range of drive
technologies and specifications: stepper and DC motor
drives, magnetic drives (as 3-phase or voice coil), piezo
ultrasound drives andseveral more.

Piezo actuators operate at frequencies of up to several
kHz and are ideally suited for nanodispensing
applications: They can switch valves directly, work
against a closing spring or a flexible tube for volume
displacement and propel liquids within a microfluidic
reaction volume.

PICMA® Stack Multilayer Piezo Actuators

PICMA® Chip Actuators

PICMA® Multilayer Bender Actuators

Standard and Customized Drive Solutions

Piezoelectric Components

Strategic Partner and Reliable Supplier
Talk to us about your challenges and we will lend you ourhelping hand:Miniaturized Piezo ComponentsUse our reliable standard products, e.g. piezo elements
in your motorized pipetting systems.
Use our resources in development: Discuss your ideas for
specific projects with us. We are experienced inpartnering up with producers of world-renowned
MedTech applications and supplying them with our (sub)systems and components.
Use our in-house assembling competencies: We offer
contract manufacturing in the form of ‘build-to-print’ foryou. We are skilled in setting up efficient production
chains very fast and can manufacture subsystems of
testing robots if provided all materials and testinstructions.

Piezo Actuators and Components for Precise Dosing ApplicationsPhysik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG, Auf der Roemerstrasse 1, 76228 Karlsruhe, Germany
Phone +49 721 4846-0, Fax +49 721 4846-1019, Email info@pi.ws, www.pi.ws

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