M-Tech Diagnostics are the UK distributors for a number of suppliers worldwide, providing a wide range of filtration equipment, consumables and filtration media products for use in analytical chemistry, environmental monitoring and microbial testing.
Company Profile
M-Tech Diagnostics supply a wide range of filtration equipment, consumables and filtration media products for use in analytical chemistry, environmental monitoring and microbial testing.
Founded in 1991, M-Tech Diagnostics initially established business with pharmaceutical and beverage manufacturers supplying a range of industry standard filtration equipment and filtration media for use R & D, Quality Control, production and environmental monitoring.
Additional products for food pathogen testing and hygiene monitoring have been added to this core business to provide a comprehensive, co-ordinated range of products which address the tasks facing Industry, Environmental and Public health laboratories.
M-Tech Diagnostics Products for the Water Industry:
Environmental Sampling
A wide range of environmental sampling products
M-Tech provides a wide range of environmental sampling and sample collection products from sample collection and storage to surface, solid and water-core samplers. M-Tech provides a complete range of Whirl-Pak sample bags, manufactured by Nasco in the USA, for sampling, transport, storage and blending. The Sludge Judge sludge sampling range allows easy and accurate readings to be taken of settled solids, while the Swing and Tank samplers allow simple liquid sample collection from otherwise awkward situations. Also manufactured by Nasco are a wide range of solid sampling products, from spoons and scoops to ice and grain samplers.
Filtration Equipment
M-Tech supply a comprehensive range of filtration equipment and consumables, from filter papers and membranes to vacuum manifolds and disposable filter monitors.
For more information, see the specific product pages:
Filtration Media: Ampoule and Dehydrated Media
M-Tech sells a wide range of ampoule media manufactured by S&S BioPath in the USA for membrane filtration applications. Routinely available in this range are:
- m-green yeast & mould
- m-Endo coliform medium
- Total count medium + TTC
- Cetrimide Pseudomonas broth
- Membrane lauryl sulphate broth
- Other media may be available on request.
Nutrient pad sets (NPS) are sterile, dehydrated culture media, ready for immediate use after addition of water. Shelf life of the sealed original package at room temperature is at least one year. Nutrient pads sets (NPS) are obligatorily used in combination use with membrane filtration technique.
The Nutrient pads sets are made of biologicaly inert cellulose cardboard that does not bind the nutrient medium chemically as compared to conventional agar culture media.
M-Tech supplies a comprehensive range of conventional dehydrated media manufactured by Laboratorios Conda in spain. Under the brand Pronadisia, Conda supply: dehydrated culture media, agar, peptones and other media ingredients; microbiological control reagents for the food, brewing and beverage industries; diagnostic reagents for serology and haematology. Agar media and components are routinely available in 500g, 2.5kg and 5kg pack sizes. Larger pack sizes, up to 25kg, can be supplied on request.
Other M-Tech Diagnostics Products:
CHROMagar: Chromogenic Media
Why? Because you are about the quality of you procedures for isolation and differenciation of pathogenic microorganisms, Because you need rapid and reliable results.
Who? The company who pioneered chromogenic media, with the original Rambach agar.
What? CHROMagar chromogenic media allow isolation and direct differentiation of several pathogenic microorganisms simply by the colour of the colonies.
Cytology
M-Tech provide a wide range of cytology products manufactured by Scientific Device Laboratories in the USA. Featured products in the range:
- Acri-Fluor fluorescent stain
- Aqua-Hold PAP pen
Portable Incubators
Thermotote Portable Incubators
M-Tech supply the Thermotote range of portable incubators for use in the field, car or lab benchtop, ideal for a wide-range of in-field applications.
CyTherm Temperature Monitoring System
The Cytherm temperature logger provides a rebust and easy to use temperature logging system.
Sample Processing
Sample Preparation
- Gravimat gravimetric dilutor
- BagPipette
Sample Processing
Consumables
- BagClip temporary bag closure
- BagLight homogeniser bag
- BagFilter homogeniser bag with lateral filter
- BagPage homogeniser bag with full page filter
- BagTips pipette tips
Biological and Chemical Indicators
A comprehensive range from Raven Biological Laboratories Inc.
M-Tech provides a wide range of biological and chemical indicators produced by Raven Biological Laboratories. All Raven products are manufactured in accordance with current Good Manufacturing Practices of the United States Food and Drug Administration and meet the standard established by U.S.P.
Immuno-Magnetic Beads
M-Tech supply a range of A-Bead immuno-magnetic beads, manufactured by Aureon BioSystems in Austria. The use of magnetic beads for sample processing has proven to be a useful, sensitive technique, employed in routine applications as well as in research. The primary technological advantage of using immuno-magnetic beads is their ability to bind to almost any defined target molecule, such as nucleic acids, proteins or whole cells with very high specificity.
