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PVT supplements its product range with the redevelopment of the compact sorting system Kolibri. Space saving and flexible - the sorting system Kolibri is suited as a single system in labs with a low to medium workload. Considered an addition for extensive solutions, the sorter ensures reliable and sample handling in distributing and archiving, by a throughput of up to 440 tubes per hour. PVT has developed a compact, reliable and practicable solution for labs, which were dependant on manual sample handling so far.

The first service technician and application training took place in March 2010 in the new PVT training centre. The recently finished premises in the headquarters in Waiblingen, afford the customers and employees a good possibility for education and advanced training. Besides theoretical education, the trainees can directly be trained on the PVT systems. Two PVT Workstations (EC1 connected to RSA Pro and EC2 connected to RSD Pro) are available for participants to train their practical skills. This new training centre provides PVT the opportunity, to train their customers and employees even more efficient.

PVT supports the relief project "Totora" in Peru

The name "Totora" comes from the correspondent reed, which grows on an area with approximately 36.000 hectare in the south of Peru, more precisely at the Titicaca Lake. There is also the living space of the Uros. The most important resource of the Uros is the Totora reed. The Uros live on islands on the Titicaca Lake, which are totally made out of Totora reed. With this kind of reed, they also build boats, so that they can see-saw between the reed islands. The project "Totora", which is brought into being and supported by the master degree programme "Integral Studies" of the SAdBk-Stuttgart and PVT Probenverteiltechnik GmbH, is themed with these three words: "Innovation is help". The master degree programme "Integral Studies", which is offered in Waiblingen, takes four terms and is visited by students which already have a bachelor education. The aim of the degree programme is to identify current problems and to solve these problems by means of creative skills and innovative ideas. In the current term, the area at the Titicaca Lake was chosen for this purpose. Every student was receiving a particular project in the whole project "Totora". Existing problems, like the huge loss of energy during the cooking, polluted drinking water and the expensive construction of their cottages, should be solved by the students. Some of the particular projects of the students were for example, new and more efficient ovens where the Uros can cook, to gain unpolluted water from deeper parts of the Lake and to find a way to build their cottages with Totora reed rather than with the more expensive wood. After the particular projects were prepared in Waiblingen, all students and the director of the institute, Prof. Goerge Teodorescu, travelled to Peru to implement the particular projects together with the Uros. Within 14 days, nearly all particular projects were implemented together with the Uros. The above mentioned aim of the master degree programme, was achieved in record time. With the help and the direction of the students, the life of the Uros is more easily but they still live in accord with their tradition.