Pall Enters Laboratory Water Market With New Cascada Lab Water System

The need for purified water, so as not to impact test results, is an essential and growing requirement of research and diagnostic laboratories, especially as testing equipment becomes more sensitive and more stringent regulations are promulgated globally. To meet these demanding life science and analytical testing requirements, Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL), the global leader in filtration, separations and purification, announced that it is bringing its water purification expertise to the laboratory market with the introduction of the Pall Cascada™ Lab Water Systems (availbale in USA only).

The Cascada point-of-use system provides optimum water quality to support diverse laboratory needs from the most critical, sensitive applications through general-purpose use.

“As the lab market becomes increasingly complex and demanding, customers need trustworthy providers that are deeply entrenched in water purification,” says Ken L. Harris, President Pall Life Sciences New Technology. “Pall’s entry into this marketplace combines more than a half century experience in the development of the most advanced water purification technologies used by a host of industries worldwide with our in-depth, extensive knowledge and understanding of the diverse application needs of the laboratory markets we serve.”

The Cascada System enables laboratories to achieve the highest purity water through a series of separation and purification steps in a single box on demand. Four polishing systems, with customized configurations to meet a wide range of sensitive application requirements for high quality ultrapure water, are available. They are:

• The Cascada BIO-water, a polishing system for demanding life sciences applications such as cell culture, in vitro fertilization, microfluidic and array systems

• The Cascada AN-water, a polisher for demanding analytical applications such as ultra-trace environmental analysis

• The Cascada IX-water, a polishing system for less demanding lab water applications

• The Cascada LS-water polisher for general-purpose lab analysis, including less sensitive life science applications.

A pretreatment system, the Cascada RO-water system is also available to protect and extend the life of the polishers, which is particularly important in cases where there is poor feedwater quality.

The Cascada Systems offer a multitude of benefits including multi-stage monitoring, data tagging, intelligent dispensing and “real-time” total organic carbon (TOC) monitoring. The systems can be comprehensively and completely sanitized. Each of the products has full FDA validation pages and traceable cartridges back to the source.