7 Tips to Consider When Entering the Sterilizer Purchasing Process

Buying a sterilizer can be a daunting task, with many customization options and features to choose from. However, it does not have to be. Our 7 Tips to Buying a sterilizer is meant to guide you along the purchasing decision with important questions to ask and keys to look for.

1. Industry Experience

Many university, biomedical, and pharmaceutical projects require unique insight and creative problem solving to bring a sterilization lab design concept to life with an installed sterilizer. It could be limited horizontal space for door operation, restrictive egress issues, excessive water consumption, or limited sterilizer size options.

2. Equipment Sourcing Location

Sterilizers manufactured in your home country facilitates a number of different value-added benefits to you as the end user. These benefits are numerous and significant: reduced lead-time due to the elimination of international fulfillment and logistics, minimizing risk associated with currency fluctuation, supporting the creation of jobs at home, and simplify the ability to oversee the sterilizer Factory Acceptance Testing.

3. Service and Support Options

Keeping your equipment running at peak performance requires preventative maintenance and support, akin to changing the oil and rotating the tires on your car. Not only service, but the ability to quickly get spare parts for inventory stocking and replacement must be a factor in your buying decision.

4. Internet Of Things (IoT) Connectivity

The world, and its equipment, is becoming more connected by the month with technology enabling Internet of Things (IoT) capability. This should not have to end with sterilization. Thanks to encrypted internet connections, sterilizer observation and technical support can be done remotely to facilitate online and immediate service with technical support personnel.

5. Cost of Ownership

The initial cost of the sterilizer is only a part of the overall cost of owning and operating a sterilizer. In addition to the sterilizer, the cost of spare parts and technical support needs to be researched and factored into the purchase decision when considering the lifetime cost of the sterilizer.

6. Water Conservation

When a sterilizer runs all day long, thousands of gallons of water can be consumed. Make sure to evaluate water conservation options during your sterilization search.

7. Project Integrators

For new and expanding facilities, the ability to purchase all equipment through one supplier makes the purchasing process easy. Make sure you can get all your equipment, including sterilizers, washers, and vent hoods with one decision.

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Certified, Refurbished Sterilizers are the Solution for a Budget-Conscious Facility 

Budgets at many laboratories across the country are squeezed to remove unnecessary spending. Grant money is getting harder and harder to come by. Unfortunately, these problems are nothing new. Budgeting issues should not have to freeze research and development projects, and with remanufactured as new steam sterilizers, those issues may not have to.

Remanufactured as new sterilizers provide three main benefits to the equipment owner including lower cost, an environmentally conscious solution to save material, and a retested/refurbished chamber with a renewed warranty.

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  Certifying Vessel and Door Integrity

  A Budget-Friendly Solution
  When building a sterilizer, a significant amount of the investment is used in material purchasing, typically 304 and 316L stainless steel. By using existing material, specifically the chamber, door and jacket, to create a newly refurbished sterilizer, significant cost savings are passed onto the end user’s organization.

• Why Recycle When You Can Reuse
  Re-using sterilizer material also represents a significant environmental benefit that efficiently uses available resources to create a functional sterilizer without requiring the additional 1,699 lbs. of stainless steel material a typical 24″ x 36″ x 48″ chamber consumes.

• Certified Chambers
  The Beta Star chamber re-certification program ensures the structural integrity of the vessel. This process includes careful inspection of the chamber, jacket, and door with optional ultrasound testing for these three components. The rest of the sterilizer, including insulation, piping, and control systems, are all replaced with new equipment and components. By replacing all of these components, a virtual “reset” button ensures that the sterilizer’s life expectancy can be that of a new sterilizer without investing significant money in a new chamber, jacket, and door(s).

The Beta Star Advantage

With Beta Star remanufactured sterilizers, you get the benefit of structural integrity and functionality testing backed the manufacturing expertise of a dedicated 250 employee team working in a state of the art, USA manufacturing facility. Vessel integrity is ensured by our ASME R-stamp certification with optional ultrasound and hydro testing capabilities completed on-site.

Any Make, Any Model

Across all of the various models and manufacturers of sterilizers, the building blocks of the sterilizer are fundamentally the same. This understanding of the equipment, developed through many years as a sterilizer service company servicing all types of sterilizers, allows us to deliver top quality remanufactured as new sterilizers.