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Shakers and mixers: thermo shakers, orbital shakers and vortex mixers for sample preparation

A shaker or mixer sits at the start of almost every protocol — from gentle rocking of blots and gels to high-speed vortexing of microtubes, with or without temperature control. COLO.Science covers the full range: dry-block thermo shakers for microtubes, microplate thermostatic shakers, models with heating and cooling, shaker incubators, orbital and rocking shakers, vortex mixers, rotators and roller mixers. This category helps you select by sample format, required temperature, speed range and capacity.

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Types of shakers and mixers and their use
  • Thermo shaker for microtubes — an interchangeable dry block heats, cools and mixes in one instrument; blocks for 0.2 ml PCR strips, 0.5/1.5/2.0 ml microtubes and 15 or 50 ml tubes, RT+5 °C to 100 °C, up to 1500 rpm.
  • Microplate thermostatic shaker — the plate is held at a set temperature and mixed with a small orbit — the condition for reproducible ELISA protocols, enzymatic reactions and screening.
  • Shakers with heating and cooling — Peltier cooling below room temperature, so one instrument covers both incubation at 37 °C and holding at 4 °C.
  • Shaker incubators — precise temperature control with orbital shaking; benchtop and floor-standing models with clamps for Erlenmeyer flasks.
  • Orbital and linear shakers — ambient operation, selected by speed range, orbit in millimetres and platform load capacity.
  • Rocker shakers, rotators and roller mixers — shallow-angle rocking for blots and gels, end-over-end rotation for extraction, roller mixers for blood tubes.
  • Vortex mixers — the fastest way to bring a single tube, microtube or vial to full homogeneity; touch or continuous mode, with adapters for several tubes or a microplate.
Highlight: thermo shakers for microtubes and microplates

The thermo shaker is the most requested instrument in this group because it replaces three things on the bench: a dry block, a water bath and a shaker. The block is chosen by sample format, temperature and speed are set independently, so the same unit runs incubation, lysis, denaturation and pellet resuspension.

If the protocol calls for sub-ambient temperature — enzymes, unstable samples, reactions held at 4 °C — choose a model with heating and cooling. For ELISA and screening, the block is replaced by a carrier for microplates with 96 or 384 wells.

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