RoSS.FRDG is an upright ultra-cold storage freezer for frozen drug substances in different sizes. The fridge for laboratories keeps the desired set point temperature down to -80°C.
Our ultra-cold freezer is compatible with RoSS Shells to protect your bioprocess containers. It offers highest storage density, is fully movable and can be modularly adapted to your individual needs.
As a modular and efficient Ultra Low Temperature (ULT) freezer, it is the perfect solution for all requirements. It outperforms both, conventional upright laboratory freezers and walk-in freezers and cold rooms thanks to its advantages for all biomanufacturing companies; full temperature control thanks to reliable air temperature conformity and a highly modular interior that can be equipped with shelving systems to store all available single-use bags and bottles.
Simply place pallets into RoSS.FRDG - without changing the regulation-intensive infrastructures. Thus RoSS.FRDG enables modular and easy-to-install cold room storage capacity that smartly fills a gap for the biopharmaceutical industry between small-scale low storage density lab freezers and large but expensive and fixed walk-in freezers.
Conventional Lab Freezer | RoSS.FRDG Ultra Cold Storage | Walk-in Freezer & Cold Room | Comments | |
| Temperature Control | ⁓ | ✅ | × | Reliable Air Temp Uniformity of 1.5°C and wide-ranging setpoints with RoSS.FRDG |
| Storage Density | × | ✅ | ✔ | Pallets, racks and other packagings in shelves to be stored efficiently |
| Modularity | ⁓ | ✅ | ✔ | Customized shelving systems for sizes of primary packagings |
| Cost effectiveness | ⁓ | ✅ | ⁓ | Simple installation and maintenance of RoSS.FRDG without change of infrastructure |
| Back-up plan | ✔ | ✅ | ⁓ | Digital alarming management and long holding of temperature in case of failure |
The ultra cold storage freezer RoSS.FRDG is designed to meet the requirements of a fridge for labs: the laboratory fridge allows highest temperature stability down to -80°C, and is compatible with RoSS Shells to provide maximum protection for single-use bags.
In addition to its high flexibility, this lab fridge comes with great storage space, easy access and is stackable; also, RoSS.FRDG is scalable and therefore suitable to deliver enough space both as a fridge for labs and in bulk production and storage of biopharmaceuticals.
Manual defrost is not necessary to keep the freezer storage within the RoSS.FRDG frost-free, and with the temperature alarm, stainless steel surfaces, adjustable temperature down to -80° C and precise temperature control, this device delivers freezer space that is ready to meet both lab requirements and international regulations.
As part of the Freeze & Thaw platform by Single Use Support, RoSS.FRDG is a device ready to be integrated in highly delicate cold chains. This platform allows seamless transitions from the unfrozen to the frozen and back to the unfrozen state of biologics: Together with the RoSS.pFTU – a powerful freeze/thaw unit that comes in different sizes –, it enriches Single Use Support’s Portfolio of professional end-to-end solutions.
In order to provide even more efficiency, safety and user-friendliness within the freeze/thaw process, Single Use Support additionally provides various consumables, such as RoSS Shell. The product is designed to protect single-use bioprocess containers during storage and transport and is compatible with the Freeze & Thaw platfrom RoSS.pFTU.
Ultra cold freezers, also known as ultra low temperature freezers or ULTs, are refrigerated that are designed to achieve temperatures as low as -40 to -86° C. They represent a significant component in the supply chain of various products, including most innovative biologics.
While cold freezers achieve temperatures of -40 °C or lower, ultra cold freezers usually operate at temperatures between -40 and 86 °C. Thus, they are able to meet lab requirements, where temperatures around -85 °C have to be achieved.
Both the lab freezer and the fridge for labs work with extremely low temperatures. But while lab freezers are devices that are made to cool down specific goods to these low temperatures, fridges for labs are designed for the storage of the frozen goods in the appropriate temperature range.
Single Use Support has created both the freeze/thaw platform RoSS.pFTU (with high-performance plate freezers in different sizes) and the RoSS.FRDG, which is a specialized freezer for labs that is scalable, stackable, comes with high storage density and great temperature stability.
There is a wide range of products that can be stored and shipped in single-use bags within a laboratory fridge. The RoSS.FRDG is compatible with RoSS Shells, made to protect these very bags and to facilitate a seamless transition between the freezing/thawing and storage processes. Products stored and shipped this way include drug substances, monoclonal antibodies, mRNA and gene therapies, temperatures as low as -80°C.
However, there are certain products that need to be stored at even lower temperatures, such as cell therapies or gene-modified cell therapies: This is where cryogenic freezers come into place, with the RoSS.LN2F able to reach temperatures down to -180°C.
The ultra cold freezer RoSS.FRDG is used all along the biopharma industry, from laboratories to transport experts and in biopharma companies. Since it offers high storage density and is easily stackable, it is extremely flexible in use and can be integrated in processes from lab to bulk scale.
In contrast to the usual household chest freezers or upright freezers with wire baskets that can be found at various retailers including Amazon next to whirlpools and other rather ordinary household products, ultra cold temperature freezers are highly specialized devices far more powerful than fridge-freezers or the extra-freezer on casters. They can reach temperatures that household devices – even the bestselling, best chest freezers – cannot achieve with cold air from an ordinary compressor.
Although ULT freezers might share some typical functions with small chest freezers (like a power-on indicator light that helps to become aware of power outage), ultra low temperature freezers need not only to provide lower, but also more stable temperatures than a compact chest freezer, since it contains far more delicate substances.
Typically, ultra cold temperature freezers can achieve temperatures as low as -80 °C, which sets them apart from mini fridges, upright freezers /deep freezers that are used for food storage like ice cream in households or ice makers for a large family. While interior light via LED light, door alarm, the size of the single storage baskets, free delivery and warranty may be the decisive factors when buying a household device, ultra cold storage freezers need to provide not only extremely low temperatures, but also the highest accuracy and cost-effectiveness. Storage density (how many cu ft / cubic feet of cold storage) is also a key factor in the considerations on which ultra cold storage freezer to choose.
