RoSS.ULTF is an upright ultra-low temperature storage freezer for frozen drug substances in different sizes. The fridge for laboratories keeps the desired set point temperature down to -80°C.
Our ULT storage 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) storage 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.ULTF - without changing the regulation-intensive infrastructures. Thus RoSS.ULTF 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.ULTF Ultra-low temperatur Storage Freezer | Walk-in Freezer & Cold Room | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temperature control | ⁓ | ✅ | × | Reliable air temperature uniformity of ±3°C and wide-ranging setpoints with RoSS.ULTF |
| Storage density | ⁓ | ✅ | ✔ | Pallets, racks and other packaging to be stored efficiently |
| Modularity | ⁓ | ✅ | ✔ | Customized shelving systems for sizes of primary packaging |
| Cost effectiveness | ✔ | ✅ | ⁓ | Simple installation and maintenance of ULT storage freezers |
| Backup plan | ✔ | ✅ | ⁓ | Digital alarm infrastructure and long preservation of temperature in case of failure |
The ultra-low temperature storage freezer RoSS.ULTF is designed to meet the requirements of a fridge or freezer for labs: the storage freezer 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 storage freezer comes with great storage space, easy access and is stackable; also, RoSS.ULTF is scalable and therefore suitable to deliver enough space both as a fridge or freezer for labs and in bulk production and storage of biopharmaceuticals.
Manual defrost is not necessary to keep the freezer storage within the RoSS.ULTF 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.ULTF 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-low temperature freezers are designed to achieve extremely low temperatures, required for example for a safe storage of many biologics. Frequently used in single use technologies.
There is a wide range of products that can be stored and shipped in single-use bags within a laboratory fridge or freezer. The RoSS.ULTF 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 -75°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.ULTF 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.
