Revolutionizing tube labeling with advanced laser tech

9 March 2023

In this video, Waldemar Janzen, Global Product Manager at LVL Technologies GmbH & Co. KG, introduces the new Tube Laser Marker (TLM 864). Janzen demonstrates how this fully automatic instrument can mark tubes with specific information, without the need for time-consuming and non-secure labelling and lettering methods. This sophisticated tool features the latest technology, allowing it to label up to nine racks at once and process up to 500 tubes per hour, while being 100% compatible with LVL SAFE® 2D tubes. By showcasing this innovative technology in action, Janzen explains how the instrument can be used in a wide range of applications, from biobanks to pharma, genomics and diagnostics, to support researchers globally.

This video was filmed at SLAS2023, San Diego.

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♪ [music] ♪ My name is Waldemar Janzen, and I'm the global product manager at LVL technologies. We are here today at the venue of SLAS to show our brand-new tube laser marker, the TLM 864. And we are able to laser any kind of information which you like on demand.

Everything is done on demand, now we have tube laser on demand. The tube laser marker allows the customer to apply any kind of information that you would like to, and as a result you get a durable long-lasting information that you can use in any environment accordingly to the application of the customer.

With this machine, we allowed the user to enter several information that you would like to, he's absolutely free of the layout that he wants to use. And once the entry is done using a CSV format, you transfer it to the tube laser marker, and then you can see how the magic happens.

So the tube is getting picked, it is moved to the laser chamber, it is getting down into the laser chamber, everything is secured. And then you can see how the laser hits the spot, and there you go. In addition to the lasering feature that we have, we have another function. This device is also working as a reformator.

I mean, the awesome thing about it is that everything, what is necessary for a reformator fulfills also the tube laser marker, that means we have a picking unit that can pick and place and reformat, not only from SPS but also from SPS in high-density ranks. We cover the full range of formats that we are supplying at LVL. So that means SPS-96, SPS-48, SPS-24, from 0.3 milliliters up to 8 milliliters.

Applications that this device is suitable for are very wide range. So we are working with biobanks, with clinical diagnostics, veterinary investigations, all kind of researchers. And this is the beautiful thing about it, because you have really the freedom of more or less laser on those tubes, whatever you would like to, just customized according to your application.

Well, when I think about the future of this device and what kind of impact it will have, I mean, I see here a lot of people are talking about disruptive innovations and you don't see many of them on the market, but this is really disruptive. I have the belief that using this machine we can substitute for the future the pen and paper tech and we can really create a durable long-lasting information, which will stand for years.

And this is what the customers are looking for. So we have the ability to support t he researchers all over the world.