The Empore™ High Performance Extraction Disk Plate differs in design from plates offered by other manufacturers and requires a specific vacuum manifold.  Manifolds supplied by different plate manufacturers are specific to the design of their plates and cannot generally be used with plates from other manufacturers.  In some cases, the use of spacers to raise/lower the height of a collection device inside the manifold may overcome some incompatibility, but must be determined for each combination of manufacturer’s manifold and the collection device.