
MiniCollect® PIXIE Heel Incision Safety Lancet
MiniCollect® PIXIE is a safety lancet for the heel. With a shallow penetration depth, PIXIE nevertheless gently ensures maximum blood flow. This product is ideal for premature and newborn babies.
Greiner Bio-One is a technology partner for hospitals, laboratories, universities, research institutes and the diagnostic, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, specialising in the development, manufacture and distribution of high-quality plastic laboratory products.
Our Preanalytics division produces evacuated sample collection tubes for capillary blood collection systems, as well as blood, saliva and urine, while distributing suitable safety accessories and products.
As one of the first developers of an evacuated specimen collection system for urine and blood, made of almost unbreakable Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic, Greiner Bio-One Preanalytics is one of the leaders in evacuated specimen collection.
Greiner Bio-One offers its clients a vast array of products for venous blood collection with VACUETTE® brand. The innovative blood collection tubes, formed with practically unbreakable PET plastic, are available with various additives, in both standard and special tubes.
Should a health sector employee contract a bloodborne illness, the cause can typically be a former injury from a sharp, contaminated object. One of the recurring causes of infection is direct blood-to-blood contact, such as with an NSI.
Infections such as HIV, for example, remain fatal, as it is not possible to vaccinate against such diseases. Greiner Bio-One delivers a wide variety of safety products to provide the best defence possible from bloodborne infections caused by NSIs, such as safety blood collection sets, safety tube holders and safety needles.
As well as safety products and blood collection tubes, we all distribute an assortment of accessories such as ESR accessories, snap caps and tube holders.
Greiner Bio-One offers an extensive range of products for capillary blood collection with the MiniCollect® brand. Geriatric patients, young children and patients with fragile veins are compatible with the system. We also recommend MiniCollect in circumstances where venous blood collection is particularly difficult, such as for those with extensive burns.
Safety products, such as safety lancets, as well as accessories, such as capillaries, carrier tubes or funnels, are also available under the MiniCollect brand.
A capillary blood collection system, including the carrier tube, is available with MiniCollect Complete. The MiniCollect tube comes preassembled within the carrier tube, which offers several advantages for sample analysis in instruments.
All urine samples carry the potential for infection. Through the use of the closed VACUETTE urine system, sanitary sample collection and laboratory testing are guaranteed. Greiner Bio-One offers VACUETTE urine beakers, containers and tubes.
Saliva can be collected efficiently and without stress by rinsing with the saliva collection solution. The contained dye, tartrazine, functions as an internal standard, ensuring reproducible saliva analysis. The collection system contains a saliva collection beaker, a saliva extraction solution and an evacuated saliva transfer tube.
Greiner Bio-Ones offers an extensive range of automatic arterial catheters and safety IVs for challenging physical conditions, as well as numerous clinical needs. Manufactured with both patient and user in mind, the products are designed to provide the user with confidence that first-time insertion success is possible every time.
MiniCollect® PIXIE is a safety lancet for the heel. With a shallow penetration depth, PIXIE nevertheless gently ensures maximum blood flow. This product is ideal for premature and newborn babies.
The brand-new VACUETTE® EVOPROTECT Safety Blood Collection Set is the next evolution of safety. The semi-automatic click mechanism protects the user from the risk of needlestick injuries and makes the daily task of blood collection easier. The VACUETTE EVOPROTECT provides for gentle collection and safety from injury because we believe that every needlestick is one too many.
The advantages of the VACUETTE® FC Mix Tube are clear:
The SAFETY Blood Collection Set has been specially developed for patients with difficult vein conditions, but is equally suitable for any regular blood taking situation, due to the gentle comfort it provides to a patient.
More flexibility – as offered by the VACUETTE® QUICKSHIELD Safety Tube Holder. The safety shield of the newly designed holder can now be positioned in any direction.
Through continuous optimisation of our product range, we regularly provide our customers with improved and new products.
One thing we all have in common is the desire to be healthy and full of vitality so that we can enjoy life to the utmost.
Greiner Bio-One has developed a newly-designed capillary blood collection tube featuring an integrated collection scoop and a co-molded cap for collection and sampling.
Greiner Bio-One’s new VACUETTE® EVOPROTECT SAFETY Blood Collection Set enables blood to be collected gently and protects the user against needlestick injuries.
1 April 2021Ever since the alarming news about the global Covid-19 pandemic and the far-reaching effects, the focus for healthcare has increasingly shifted towards the detection of viruses. Greiner Bio-One can make a significant contribution to virus detection with the VACUETTE® Virus Stabilization Tube.
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27 January 2020Due to continuing high demand and use of capacity in the core segments, both Greiner Bio-One and its suppliers invested significant sums in the enlargement of global production.
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27 June 2018In response to high demand for Greiner Bio-One safety products, the existing range will be joined by the new VACUETTE® SAFETY Winged Set. As always, the aim is to provide functional, user-friendly and patient-friendly product solutions.
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25 January 2018Strategic innovation partners gespag and Greiner Bio-One have introduced a new digital system solution to the Steyr pilot hospital.
8 June 2017Following a successful launch of the new capillary blood collection system last autumn, Greiner Bio-One now presents the new MiniCollect® Complete tube as the ideal complement to its innovative system.
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6 January 2017Greiner Bio-One has found the optimum solution for reliable diagnosis of diabetes in the form of the new VACUETTE® FC Mix tube.
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29 November 2016The topic of safety is taking an increasingly prominent place in the healthcare field.
12 February 2013As usual we will be exhibiting at this year's MEDICA. We would be delighted to welcome you there. Once again, Greiner Bio-One Preanalytics and BioScience will share an exhibition booth, bringing you the latest product highlights and innovations from the medical and preanalytical areas a
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