The VENTANA BenchMark ULTRA PLUS Automated Immunohistochemistry Staining System is an advanced solution designed to optimize workflow in anatomical pathology laboratories, delivering superior efficiency, consistent quality, and enhanced productivity for immunohistochemistry (IHC) and in situ hybridization (ISH) applications. With its full automation and exclusive core technologies, BenchMark ULTRA PLUS ensures accurate and reliable diagnostic results.

Key Features and Benefits:

• Full and Comprehensive Automation:
  • The system automatically performs procedures from slide drying, deparaffinization, to staining tissue or cell samples.
  • Supports a diverse range of tests, including IHC, ISH, SISH, immunofluorescence, multiplex IHC (double, triple), contrast staining, and titration.
• Maximum Capacity and Performance:
  • Independent slide tray: Allows for staining 1 to 30 slides with independent temperature control and individual processing for each position, eliminating the need for batch runs. Slides can be added at any time, and staining protocols can be customized for each slide.
  • The instrument can stain up to 90 slides in 8 hours and 30 slides overnight, maximizing work efficiency.
  • The reagent carousel has 35 reagent loading positions.
  • Supports STAT (immediate run) capability without affecting slides currently being processed, ensuring fast turnaround times.
• Advanced Core Staining Technology:
  • Individual Heating Plates: Ensures uniform heat distribution and enhances reaction kinetics for staining on each slide.
  • Liquid Coverslip: Creates a reaction chamber that covers the entire slide surface, limiting evaporation, ensuring tissue integrity, and minimizing artifacts from dried tissue.
  • Ventana Vortex technology: Ensures uniform reagent distribution and consistent staining across the entire tissue section.
• Smart Reagent and Waste Management:
  • Uses a maximum of 7 different types of bulk reagents in containers, which can be replaced as needed without interrupting the process. Reagent bottle handles are color-coded, minimizing confusion during reagent loading.
  • Specialized waste management solution: Automatically degrades DAB waste and sorts liquid coverslip (LCS) fully automatically into specialized 5L containers. DAB is virtually undetectable in waste (below 5 parts per billion). 20L waste bins have ergonomic handles and can be treated as non-hazardous waste.
• Optimal Design and Superior Safety:
  • Integrated touchscreen: Allows for on-site instrument operation, viewing slide, reagent, and waste status, confirming notifications, and setting operating modes.
  • Pull-out workstation: Enhances usability, optimizing lab space.
  • Removable casing: Enables quick repairs, reducing downtime.
  • Warning lights: Display system operating status (Green – ready; Blue – action required; Red – decision needed).
  • Local and remote access: Monitor, manage, and complete quality records from the host computer or remotely, managing registered IHC/ISH reagent inventory.
  • Manufactured and certified in compliance with strict international safety standards such as EC/EN 61010-1, IEC/EN 61010-2-010, IEC/EN 61010-2-101, IEC/EN 61010-2-081, EN 61326-2-6.