FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 18, 2003

INTEGRA Biosciences has announced the launch of the PIPETBOY Comfort Colour range, personalised pipettes designed to combine leading-edge user comfort with fast, precise liquid dispensing.

Personalised Precision Pipettes ...

INTEGRA Biosciences has announced the launch of the PIPETBOY Comfort Colour range, personalised pipettes designed to combine leading-edge user comfort with fast, precise liquid dispensing.

The addition of three new colours (Volcano Red, Sahara Yellow and Pacific Blue) to the Classic Green PIPETBOY Comfort provides a simple, yet highly effective means of visually differentiating pipettes by person, laboratory or even the project they are used in. The distinct visual appearance of each of the new PIPETBOY Comfort Colour range offers a simple way of minimising the chances of using the wrong pipette and cross contaminating your sample.

Ergonomically contoured to fit perfectly into even small hands the new lightweight product offers high-throughput laboratories a product they can use all day and remain fatigue-free. Designed for comfortable single handed pipetting in the 1-100 millilitre volume range the PIPETBOY Comfort Colour ensures precise and safe operation for applications ranging from rapid pipetting to sensitive precision dosing. Coming with a combined all-in-one stand and charging station that can be wall mounted or sit on the laboratory bench the PIPETBOY Comfort Colour is always ready to hand, always on standby. Unlike other lower cost pipetting devices the PIPETBOY Comfort Colour has in-built features to prevent accidental misuse. Incorporating a sterile PTFE-membrane filter the PIPETBOY Comfort Colour prevents contamination from overfilling as the penetration of liquid is prevented. In addition the PIPETBOY Comfort Colour will not squirt out under pressure even if a filled pipette is unintentionally aspirated.

Incorporating a silicone pipette mount the PIPETBOY Comfort Colour guarantees a sure grip with all commercially available glass and plastic pipettes from 1ml to 100 ml. For sensitive samples all parts of the PIPETBOY Comfort Colour that come into contact with liquid can be autoclaved clean at 121 °C for 30 minutes.

CONTACTS:

INTEGRA Biosciences / Tecuria Engineering AG Rossbodenstrasse 15 CH-7000 CHUR Switzerland tel. +41 81 286 9511 email: dale.charlton@intergra-biosciences.com www.integra-biosciences.com