Dr. Midhza recommended us to get quotation from ERLA. This is a lab supplier which used to sell equipment to UPM. I've never heard about it. So I browse the web and called the numbers ... 'sorry, the number is no longer available'. Grrr.. is this company still exist? I call the operator and fortunately got it.The company has changed its office and not yet updating the web.
A lady, Siti Hajar, attended my call and was cooperative enough to get my requests written down. She would send me the quotation for laminar flow first. The rest she had to wait till her boss comes back from Dubai. Aikk.. seems everybody could not give the quote except the boss. I have doubt about this already.
But Hajar finally emailed me the quotation. Item quoted was a laminar air flow, or I shall shortened it as LAF - a 4 and 6 feet. I prefer the 6 feet LAF and the price is about RM7,900. It seems expensive and on top of that so many optional accessories. Good business tactics! nevertheless, the length matters for me, not the accessories though.
Let's learn what is laminar air flow ok!
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| This is how the laminar flow looks like |
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| There are 2 types of laminar flow either horizontal or vertical air flow |
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| Description on what VFM/CFM does |
I kept quite for few days and asked again Hajar to visit the site office - just to check around the equipment. On 22/2, I took half day leave and pick up Hj Naza at Nilai commuter station and off we went to PORIM. Actually their manufacturing site is at Seri Kembangan but because there was nobody there to entertain us, Hajar asked me to meet Mikhail (I kept calling him Gabriel.. haha). We arrived at about 2 pm, and head straight to tissue culture building. Mikhail, greeted us and brought us to a lab - full of LAF. Wow! it was full of ERLA. 'Helmi, we are major laminar flow supplier for PORIM'.. yea, now I believe it.
Before we parted, Mikhail promised to give full quotation for items that we want. I hope he can give us as soon as possible coz the 6 feet LAF order will take a minimum 3 weeks to get ready. Where did we go after that? Haha, we went to Mr. Lee's house to check around new orchids just arrived from Irian!
