VirTis, founded in 1953 has been manufacturing and selling freeze dryers since 1957. At that time no standard laboratory freeze dryer existed and scientists were required to perform small freeze dry runs utilizing expendable refrigerants such as dry ice. The founders of VirTis took their knowledge of freeze drying, coupled it with mechanical refrigeration and developed the first mechanically refrigerated research and development freeze dryers available in the United States. Over the years VirTis engineers have designed and developed hundreds of equipment breakthroughs leading the brand into the 21st century. VirTis has been the leading supplier of research and development freeze dryers in the United States and is well recognized in every part of the world.
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VirTis freeze dryers (aka lyophilizers) are available as standard systems or can be customized to meet any freeze drying application. The product line includes small bench top manifold systems capable of 2 liters of condensate up to small production systems capable of processing up to 600 liters of product in each batch. VirTis serves every freeze drying application need including everything from drying leaves and berries for analysis, tissue banking, sample preparation for HPLC, and research and development and manufacturing of diagnostic kits and pharmaceuticals to name a few.
VirTis is currently located in Gardiner, NY. All VirTis freeze dryers are made in the US at the Gardiner, NY facility which houses manufacturing, engineering and sales and service application expertise.
The staff of 24 engineers and designers with over200 years of cumulative freeze drying, vacuum and refrigeration expertise are among the most knowledgeable in their field. Having helped solve freeze drying application needs for over 50 years uniquely positions VirTis as the ‘best in class’ with regard to understanding freeze drying needs and the best possible way to match equipment to application.
SP Scientific trademark names of the VirTis brand include Benchmark, Genesis, Ultra, VirTual, AdVantage and AdVantage Plus, Freezemobile and the BTK BenchTop freeze dryers.