Thermo Electron’s New Polara RS Software Makes The RapidStak, the First Dual Instrument Loading Stacker on the Market. The RapidStak with Polara RS makes it possible to run virtually any two instrument assays

Thermo Electron Corporation, a leader in sample handling and laboratory automation, introduces the new Polara™ RS software package for the RapidStak™ microplate stacker. RapidStak is the fastest, most efficient microplate stacker in its class. And with Polara RS software, it can schedule and automate two instruments simultaneously, addressing an endless range of applications and assays. This brings the market leading advantages of POLARA to the RapidStak—full, intuitive instrument control; error handling/recovery and barcode reading. RapidStak can now control, automate and schedule most lab instruments, providing an inexpensive benchtop research solution. Polara RS software can be used to run any existing RapidStak. 

Designed to work with the majority of microplates and instruments, including Thermo’s Multidrop®, RapidStak meets the increasing demand for timesavings, higher throughput and true flexibility. Thermo offers the fastest pick-and-place stacker on the market. The speed is the result of Rapidstak’s intuitive design and new Polara RS software—plates can be delivered and processed using two instruments simultaneously.