Since 1952,
SAFAS S.A. has been exporting scientific instruments in many countries all
around the world. SAFAS® has always been investing in research and development
of new products, to always get the best performance and reliability.
SAFAS® is highly specialized
in high reliability instruments, for all demanding users and for severe
conditions of use: nuclear, military, pharmaceutical and medical applications
are some fields in which our reliability is very appreciated.
We believe that reliability must
not be exclusively reserved to big budgets and powerful industries. Private
laboratories, schools, universities also appreciate our low maintenance
costs and long term perfect accuracy. Many customers go on using satisfactorily
SAFAS® instruments aged 20, 30, even nearly 40 years... for which we
always agree to service and have available most of spare parts. Do you know
many companies which have the same idea of "service"?
Innovations can bring improved performances for lower costs, enabling
laboratories to purchase more instruments with their budgets.
For your information, here are some of the golden breakthroughs introduced by SAFAS® in science, spectroscopy and medicine:
year 1952: SAFAS® OXYMETER and
OXYGRAPH® were the first instruments allowing on-line blood monitoring
during surgery, without any sampling and with direct display of data. They
saved a lot of lifes, enabling accurate follow-up of oxygenation during
the most difficult surgeries.
year 1958: SAFAS® SPECTRALUX®
1800 was the first grating double beam spectrophotometer in the world, which
probably marked the end of prism era in spectroscopy. SPECTRALUX® 1800
was introducing a lot of major breakthroughs, particularly:
electronic central display of all parameters, including wavelength, bandwidth,
ABS and T%
user-selectable
bandwidth from 0.1 to 20nm, constant among full wavelength range
nitrogen inlets enabling measurements down to 170 nm
very
low straylight from 170nm to 1000nm thanks to the first straylight-filter
turret
automatic scan with user-selectable speeds, user-selectable response time
and graphic pen recorder
the first built-in validation system: a 3rd source, a spectral mercury
lamp, for Wavelength control
...now, excepted the computer, is your modern instrument better than 1950's SAFAS® SPECTRALUX® 1800 ? Not really? Then why don't you have a look at SAFAS® modern spectrophotometers? They really bring to modern spectroscopy as much as SPECTRALUX® 1800 brought in the 1950's... You will really discover the meaning of the word "performance".
year 1959: SAFAS introduces the first
high performances spectrofluorometer fitted with 2 GRATING MONOCHROMATORS. A new breakthrough which
opened new ways in fluorescence, with unparallelled sensitivity. Fitted with a 450 Watts Xenon lamp,
variable slits on energisation and emission monochromators, variable scan speeds and recorder...
40 years later, the new SAFAS spectrofluorometers are again introducing new standards in fluorescence.
year 1970: the first automated dissolution
testing spectrophotometer for pharmaceutical use, with automatic 10 cells
holder, 8 flow cells, 8-channel peristaltic pump, 8-way recorder, and programmable
cycling times.
year 1988: the
first generation of SAFAS® D.E.S.® spectrophotometers was introducing
a new concept of spectroscopy: no more buttons or displays on the instrument,
everything being fully and exclusively controlled by a PC compatible computer
through RS232 I/O. Considered as irrealistic at that time, that concept
has rapidly widespread to most of high level instruments on the market.
With very nice and innovative design, D.E.S.® spectrophotometer was
already -and is always!- featuring the highest performances on the market:
speed up to 10000nm/minute, kinetics up to 100points/second, high speed full-numeric signal processing
(more than 100.000 measurements/second), capability to work compartment opened, unparallelled
signal/noise ratio, nitrogen option to get down to 170nm, optional device
for double-beam fiber optics measurements, optional full protection against
radioactivity, etc...
year
1991: the first device enabling distant fiber optics double-beam measurements
without loss of sensitivity, with all features for use in glove-boxes or
in nuclear plants.
year 1995: UV mc2® spectrophotometer
is the first high performance double-beam spectrophotometer at the price
of a routine instrument. With spectra scans at 7000 nm/minute, kinetics
at 50 pts/sec, 10-samples cell holder, high speed numeric data processing (100.000 measurements/second),
full automatic wavelength calibration and sources centering, fully PC controlled... and much more!!
year 1997: SAFAS®
new high peformance SPECTROFLUOROMETER, with 2 high speed scanning monochromators,
variable slits, high speed 10-cells linear automatic holder, instrumental
correction and unparallelled sensitivity... Just call us to know why!!
Y2K : SAFAS introduced the
world's first voice controlled spectrophotometers and spectrofluorometers: another future standard introduced by SAFAS? Anyway, this is the best moment for you to purchase your first
SAFAS® spectrophotometer or spectrofluorometer, if you don't already have one!
WE ARE PROUD TO CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF BREAKTHROUGHS IN SPECTROSCOPY AND MEDICINE, and are grateful to all the customers who asked us every time to reach new levels of sensitivity, speed and data processing, leading us on the way of the highest level in instrumentation. In 2002, we are also proud to introduce a revolutionary instrument: our flx Xenius, able to achieve Fluorescence, Phosphorescence, Bioluminescence and Absorbance on 10 cuvettes, microplates, solids, powders, fiber optics probes and integrating sphere.
This is the best moment for you to purchase your first SAFAS® spectrophotometer or spectrofluorometer, if you don't already have one!
year 2034: your
2002 SAFAS® spectrophotometer will probably always be working perfectly,
SAFAS® engineers will probably always have spare parts available for
your former millenium instrument, and agree to make maintenance, and you
will probably be very happy of your y2k choice... After all, your company
saved a lot of money thanks to you!
SAFAS S.A.: a company never sold (and not for sale), always accumulating a 50 years experience in high technology... a unique stability which can be compared to its instruments one!
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