What types of laboratory products does Labnet offer?

Labnet offers laboratory equipment across five main categories: liquid handling, constant temperature equipment, molecular biology and electrophoresis instruments, agitation equipment, and lab plasticware. The company has supplied these product lines since 1984, and its catalog is organized around those categories on labnetinternational.com. This answer is for anyone mapping Labnet's catalog to typical lab workflows; it describes product types only and does not cover pricing, availability, or regional purchasing terms.

Liquid handling products

This category covers the tools used to measure and transfer liquids:

• Manual pipettors — including the BioPette Plus single-channel pipettors, which appear among Labnet's bestselling products.
• Pipet controllers — used with serological or other pipets for larger-volume transfer.
• Electronic pipettors — motorized pipetting for repetitive or volume-critical work.
• Repeating pipettors — for dispensing the same volume repeatedly, such as in plate filling.

Typical use: routine bench pipetting, assay setup, and any workflow where consistent volume delivery matters.

Constant temperature equipment

Equipment for holding samples or reactions at a controlled temperature:

• Dry baths — including the AccuBlock Digital Dry Baths, a bestselling line; used for heating samples in tubes or microplates without water.
• Hot plate stirrers — combined heating and mixing.
• Incubators — including shaking incubators such as the 311DS Environmental Shaking Incubator, which adds agitation to temperature control.
• Hybridization ovens — for blot and membrane incubations.
• Water baths — for uniform temperature control of samples in containers.

Typical use: enzyme reactions, cell or microbial culture, sample preparation, and hybridization steps.

Molecular biology and electrophoresis equipment

Instruments for nucleic acid and protein workflows:

• Thermal cyclers — for PCR and related amplification protocols.
• Plate sealers — for sealing microplates before thermal cycling or storage.
• ENDURQ horizontal gel boxes — standard agarose gel electrophoresis.
• ENDURQ modular vertical gel systems — protein and vertical-format gels.
• Transilluminators — for visualizing stained gels.
• Blotting equipment — for transferring nucleic acids or proteins to membranes.
• Power supplies — to drive electrophoresis runs.
• ENDURQ gel documentation systems — including the GDS II and GDS Touch II, a bestselling line, for imaging gels.

Typical use: PCR, gel electrophoresis, blotting, and gel imaging.

Agitation equipment

Mixing and motion instruments:

• Vortexers — rapid mixing of small tubes.
• Orbital shakers — general-purpose shaking, e.g., for cultures or staining.
• 3D shakers — gentle three-dimensional mixing.
• Rotators — end-over-end mixing, common for sample incubation.
• Reciprocal shakers — back-and-forth motion.
• Rocking platforms — low-shear rocking, often for blots or gels.

Typical use: resuspension, staining, incubation with agitation, and blot processing.

Plasticware

• Disposable plastics — single-use lab consumables.
• Reusable labware — items intended for repeated use.

How to match a product line to your task

Labnet also publishes a Centrifuge Buying Guide and offers it as an iOS and Android app, which is relevant if your task involves centrifugation rather than the categories above. For documents and manuals tied to a specific product, Labnet provides a Document Center and a product registration option on the site.