Labcold unveils new ATEX range designed for improved laboratory safety at Lab Innovations.

Labcold, an ISO9001 certified UK specialist manufacturer of medical and scientific refrigeration, will be unveiling a new range of ATEX fridges and freezers to complement their existing range of laboratory cooling products at this year’s Lab Innovations.
Labcold have been supplying science since 1932, so have over 90 years of experience in producing equipment the meets the demands of laboratory professionals. This is why Labcold equipment is used in a vast range of laboratory settings, from NHS blood transfusion and biomedical science laboratories, to universities, research and industrial labs.
The Labcold laboratory range includes sample and reagent refrigeration, large Advanced refrigerators and freezers with stainless steel interiors, blood banks, plasma freezers and Platelet incubators and agitators, ultra low temperature freezers, including under bench models, ice makers and cooled incubators, plus our ever popular sparkfree range of refrigerators and freezers.
However, for some of our customers it became clear that sparkfree cabinets, that is fridges and freezers where all sources of ignition are removed from the inside of the cabinet, were not enough to meet their stringent safety regulations. With this in mind and the fact that fire is an all too common and potentially devastating laboratory hazard, Labcold developed an ATEX range to cater for those customers with more exacting requirements.
The new Labcold ATEX range of refrigerators and freezers has been designed to go beyond the safety provided by the sparkfree models with an interior which is licensed as a Zone 2 hazardous area under 2014/34/EU (ATEX Directive) in order to store products which are classed in explosion group IIB+H2and temperature class T6 under 2014/34/EU (ATEX Directive).