TEHRAN, Mar. 08 (MNA) – A tech company in Tehran has designed and manufactured ultracentrifuge with applications in vaccine and pharmaceutical industries.

Razi Tech Company Deputy-Director Bahman Abed Kiasari told Mehr News on Tuesday that the technology was monopoly of few industrial countries including Japan and the US, and that the product was highly strategic in terms of economy and pharmaceutical industry needs to higher-gravity force centrifuges; “Razi Tech Co. has successfully designed and will soon start its commercial and industrial production. We predict the centrifuge will contribute to the vaccine production beginning in mid-2016,” he added.  

The ultracentrifuge is a centrifuge optimized for spinning a rotor at very high speeds, capable of generating acceleration as high as 1,000,000 G (approx. 9 800 km/s²). There are two kinds of ultracentrifuges, the preparative and the analytical ultracentrifuge.

 

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