If you’re a model maker, you might require a simple pot with a simple analogue gauge to make sure your resin is bubble free.

Resin degassing tank with analogue gauge

Alternatively, if you’re degassing oil in an environment where accuracy, precision and automation are key to the process, then a turnkey degassing system will be called for.

Oil degassing rig

MechaTech Systems (formerly Severn Science Ltd) will provide a solution to your deaeration or degassing requirement, whether it’s small batch or bulk media types, manual or automated.

Contact us to discuss your media degassing requirements further.
Tel: +44 (0) 1454 414723 or email enquiries@mechatechsystems.co.uk

NW/KF vacuum fittings supplied by MechaTech Systems

Whether it’s an NW25 O ring, a KF40 clamp or ISO63 flexible hose, MechaTech Systems’ offer a reliable source of both the product, and the necessary advice to make the right connections to your vacuum system.

Not sure what you’re looking for? We are happy to cross reference alternative supplier part numbers, including Edwards, Leybold and Pfeiffer.

Download our new brochure here:
MechaTech Systems’ NW/KF/ISO vacuum fittings brochure

Or contact us. Email: enquiries@mechatechsystems.co.uk or tel: +44 (0) 1454 414723.

MechaTech Systems' LSBC50 benchtop freeze dryer, pictured with column manifold drying accessory

The LSBC50 is a multipurpose, compact  benchtop condenser with a 5 litre capacity. Add a drying accessory, and it becomes a freeze dryer.

Ideal for the laboratory environment, the LSBC50 proves a popular choice in universities and research laboratories, due to its versatility, ease of use and relatively low cost.

The LSBC50 has a user interface designed specifically for ease-of-use, featuring clear, bright digital displays for vacuum pressure and condenser temperature. At-a-glance status indicators enable the end user to confirm the system operating temperature, even from a distance. Complete with an Ethernet port for easy access to real time temperature and vacuum pressure data.

Features of the LSBC50 benchtop freeze dryer 

• Compact benchtop footprint

• Digital display of vacuum and temperature

• -50°C smooth wall stainless steel ice condenser

• CFC free refrigeration system

It is designed to work with a wide variety of drying accessories to accommodate flasks (such as the column manifold pictured above) vials, ampoules, and bulk materials, enabling freeze drying of any shape or size sample.

Acrylic manifold freeze drying accessory with tray accessory and taps

Or for shelf drying, the LSB40 chamber (pictured below) offers advanced freeze drying on a small scale. Fitted with a temperature controlled product shelf, the LSB40 drying chamber has optional stoppering and data logging, reproducing the benefits of a larger scale freeze dryer at considerably less cost.

The drying chamber and condenser are connected via an isolation valve, and a transparent, perspex door allows the operator to inspect the product throughout the freeze drying process, also providing access for loading and unloading. The shelf temperature is accurately controlled between -40°C and +60ºC, and the chamber pressure can be automatically adjusted using an optional pressure regulator with an integral Pirani gauge.

Features of the LSB40 single shelf chamber: 

• Freezing , primary and secondary drying, end point determination and backfill sequences are programmed and controlled using the operator interface.

• This interface also provides system mimic and status, data logging (optional),    and fault diagnosis.

• Stoppering (optional) is manually controlled using a hand operated actuator.

MechaTech Systems (all former employees of renowned scientific instruments manufacturer, Severn Science Ltd) have a combined experience of over fifty years in high vacuum engineering and refrigeration. The LyoScience (LS) range of freeze dryers are designed and manufactured at our factory in Thornbury, near Bristol, UK. We have the flexibility to tailor our products to individual requirements, and ensure that each product is fully supported in the UK, keeping cost of ownership low and simple.

Contact us to discuss your freeze dryer requirements.
Email enquiries@mechatechsystems.co.uk  or telephone + 44 (0) 1454 414723.

MechaTech Systems Ltd,   Unit 9 Brunel Way, Thornbury,Bristol. BS35 3UR.
www.mechatechsystems.co.uk  Registered in England and Wales No. 6469333

MechaTech Systems Latest Catalogue

The new catalogue details all of MechaTech’s branded products, including the Lyoscience (LS) range of freeze dryers, the BD60 Biodry production scale vacuum dryer, and the Hyscan II hydrogen in aluminium Gas Analyser.

Also included: MechaTech’s own range of NW/KF and ISO vacuum fittings; examples of bespoke high vacuum systems and automated vacuum chambers, media degassing tanks and bespoke central vacuum systems.

The last section of MechaTech’s new catalogue includes gas sampling and particulate collection systems, of particular interest to the power generation industry, plus a comprehensive spares list including the S35 Furnace, Silica reaction tubes and C061 heating elements and S35 thermocouples.

Many of MechaTech’s branded products were previously manufactured by renowned scientific instruments manufacturer, Severn Science Ltd (SSL). When Severn Science closed, MechaTech Systems (comprising Severn Science former employees) purchased the intellectual property rights – and have been manufacturing freeze dryers, bespoke high vacuum systems, gas analysers and gas sampling systems ever since.

MechaTech Systems’ catalogue is due out early in the New Year – contact us for a copy, by emailing enquiries@mechatechsystems.co.uk or telephone +44 (0) 1454 414723.

Coming next: MechaTech’s new website (currently www.mechatechsystems.co.uk) will be arriving in spring 2012..watch this space!

MechaTech Systems, UK manufacturers of the Lyoscience (LS) range of freeze dryers, have recently completed the build of the latest LSG60 Freeze Dryer, complete with 9 temperature controlled product shelves, with automated movement for stoppering purposes.

LSG60 Freeze Dryer | 9 moveable product shelves | -60 deg C to +60 deg C

Data logging and analysis are accessible on the user-friendly touch screen display, and downloadable by both USB and ethernet (for remote view). The MechaTech Systems LSG60 has up to 200 reproducible process profiles, and a condenser capacity of 30kg.

If you’re seeking the very latest in freeze drying technology, UK manufactured and fully supported, then download our latest brochure to read more about the LSG60 freeze dryer, or contact us: (enquiries@mechatechsystems.co.uk / +44 (0)1454 414723) to discuss  your freeze drying requirements.

MechaTech Systems, the company, have been manufacturing freeze dryers for 4 years, having purchased the Intellectual Property Rights from Severn Science Ltd, following its closure in 2007. In real terms, the people that make up MechaTech Systems (all former Severn Science staff)  have been manufacturing freeze dryers for pharmaceutical, biotech, food & beverage, and a host of other applications, since the 1990s.

We not only make giants like the production scale LSG60 pictured above, but also manufacture smaller, benchtop freeze driers (equivalent the old Edwards ‘Modulyo’), along with a range of drying accessories., which are more suited to a smaller laboratory environment.

Contact us for a chat about your freeze dryer requirements.

Severn Science Ltd, high vacuum specialists and freeze dryer manufacturers ceased trading 4 years ago. MechaTech Systems Ltd rose out of its ashes, and continues, with a combined experience of over fifty years specialising in high vacuum engineering, to provide product and solutions to small laboratories and major pharmaceutical and biotech customers. Read more…