Automated Dispensing Modules for XP Series Analytical Balances

Mettler Toledo introduced the new Quantos® powder and liquid dispensing auxiliary modules that can be added to any 0.1mg or 0.01mg XP Excellence Series analytical balance. The addition of automated powder and liquid dispensing functionality to the balance increases laboratory efficiency, improves results, and eliminates errors in weighing, sample preparation, dilution and transcription.

Mettler Toledo announced new auxiliary modules designed to add its popular Quantos automated dispensing capability to XP Series balances. These new add-on modules deliver functionality for powder dispensing - and all-new liquid dispensing, and provide unprecedented improvement in weighing results. The modules are compatible with all XP Excellence Series analytical balance models having 0.1mg and 0.01mg readability. Either one or both modules can be added to the balance to dispense powders and liquids to a required target weight automatically with just a touch; keeping an original investment in an XP balance up-to-date with the very latest in Mettler Toledo weighing technology. Users can now enter the world of Quantos automated dispensing even more quickly and cost effectively.

By adding the new Quantos Q2 powder dispensing module to any XP balance with 0.1mg or 0.01mg readability, users can typically save up to 40% of their powder compounds. Even with today’s high-end balances, the minimum weight achieved can be compromised by the presence of the user disturbing the weighing process, especially when working in the low range of the balance. But by adding automation with the Q2 module to an XP205 analytical balance for example, the typical achievable USP minimum weight of the balance is lowered from 24mg to 15mg. It is possible to
save precious compounds by using less material - especially important for expensive or toxic compounds and to support Green initiatives, while still maintaining compliance.

The Q2 powder dispensing module lets users take advantage of the innovative Quantos dispensing head technology which automatically dispenses the compound to a target weight and replaces the tedious activity of weighing out powders by hand with a spatula. By also serving to store the compound, the dispensing head improves the containment of dangerous compounds during weighing, and provides new ways for laboratories to maximise compound yields and to improve workflows.