A small commercial lab like ours may not need sophisticated items. I've been looking around but thank God that we have friends like Dr. Mihdzar from UPM who has been very helpful in advising us what to look for in buying these expensive items. We visited him at his office and the tissue culture lab at UPM. Surely, the equipment there is first class.. yeah talking about spending 'Government' money, haha.
Looking for advice is something that I think new entrepreneur should do before embarking on any projects. I also remember visited Dr. Kodiswaran (some time in 2010) at FRIM asking his opinion on tissue culture market, how to go about it, the potential market etc. That guy was also helpful and gave me few things which I still remember till now. In fact, 'outsourcing tissue culture work' is one of the projects that I aim to embark once our lab is fully operational.
Well.. back to items that I need... first I visited Segar Alatan at Putra Mahkota in January 2012. A well established local manufacturer. I remember Hj Naza has requested quotation from this company way back in 2009. Due to financial constraint it didn't go thru.
The price was a bit expensive in my opinion but the service was good, quite responsive to my request for quotation and arrangement for site visit. The laminar air flow for 4' was about 10k (back in 2009, it was only about 7,500-8,000). Isk3.. asked why significant increase in price - 'we provide auto nowadays maa. You see ar, no need to calculate manually when to change infra red bulb etc".. yeah2 I agree! How about manual one? They got it as well but the price difference is not significant ~RM500-1000.
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| Laminar Air Flow |
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| Autoclave |
Overall, the items are presentable (reliable in my opinion), service maintenance is provided at reasonable price. Well. but i'll look for experts advice on this!
