96-Well Bead Dispenser

Pour the beads onto the mesh plate, tilt the dispenser so the surplus runs back into the tray, set it on your plate and pull the slider once. Every well receives the same beads at the same moment.

Yes. The mesh plate sets the size and the number of beads per well, and swapping it takes seconds. Every 96 format bead plate fits this dispenser body.

Electrostatic glass and silica, borosilicate, zirconia, chrome, stainless steel and lightweight freeze dried bacto beads. Static beads are handled by the antistatic mesh plate, and an antistatic treatment on the beads helps further.

Up to about 3 mm in a standard 96-well plate, commonly 1 to 2 mm zirconia or a 2.0 to 2.8 mm steel ball. Deepwell plates take more. Beads should occupy no more than about a third of the well volume.

Yes. Every 96 format bead plate can be ordered on its own for a dispenser you already own. The full list is on the mesh plates page.

Send the plate name or part number, and the bead size and count you need, with your quote request. Openings outside the standard list are cut to order under MG0000475.

With the LabTIE 96-Well Bead Dispenser you simply fill the reservoir, place the mesh plate over the 96-well plate, and tilt to distribute: the entire plate is loaded in as little as 8–15 seconds. No tweezers, no pipettes, and no risk of cross-contamination between wells. It is the fastest manual method available for high-throughput bead loading.

The LabTIE 96-Well Bead Dispenser works with beads ranging from 0.5 mm to 7 mm diameter, depending on the mesh plate installed. Interchangeable mesh plates let you switch bead sizes without buying a new dispenser. Contact us if you need a mesh size outside the standard range.

Bead dispensers fill each well of a 96-well plate with a precise quantity of lysis beads so that your bead-beating or TissueLyser step delivers consistent cell disruption across every sample. The LabTIE dispenser keeps bead counts uniform within <1% error, giving you reproducible DNA yield across an entire plate. This removes the biggest source of variability in bead-based nucleic acid extraction workflows.

Fill the LabTIE reservoir with your grinding beads (e.g. 2.8 mm ceramic or 1.4 mm zirconium), place the matching mesh plate over the 96-well plate, and let gravity do the work with a single smooth tilt. The exchangeable mesh ensures the right bead count drops into every well simultaneously. This method is used in high-throughput tissue lysis workflows at labs including Bayer, Harvard, and Syngenta.

The LabTIE 96-Well Bead Dispenser achieves less than 1% dispensing error across all 96 wells, which is comparable to automated liquid-handling systems. Precision is maintained by the mesh plate geometry, which allows exactly one layer of beads to pass per tilt. Over 120 labs worldwide rely on this accuracy for reproducible sample preparation.

The 96-well model fills a standard 96-well SBS plate in one pass and accepts mesh plates sized for 0.5–7 mm beads, while the 384-well dispenser uses a finer mesh and smaller well geometry to load four times as many wells in the same footprint. If your protocol runs 384-well plates, the dedicated 384-well LabTIE dispenser is the correct choice. Both dispensers share the same ergonomic design and sterilizable construction.

The LabTIE 96-Well Bead Dispenser can be cleaned by rinsing with water or 70% ethanol between runs, and all components that contact beads are autoclavable. This makes it suitable for work with biological samples that require strict cross-contamination controls. A quick ethanol wipe-down between sample types is sufficient for most molecular biology applications.

Standard LabTIE mesh plates cover bead diameters from 0.5 mm up to 7 mm, including common sizes such as 1.4 mm, 2.0 mm, 2.8 mm, 4.0 mm, and 6.0 mm. Custom mesh plates are available on request for non-standard bead sizes or specialty applications. See the product page for the current mesh size catalogue.

A single operator can load a full 96-well plate in 8–15 seconds using the LabTIE 96-Well Bead Dispenser, compared to 20–30 minutes when loading beads manually with tweezers or a pipette. This time saving compounds across hundreds of plates in a high-throughput lab. The dispenser requires no power source and no calibration before use.

LabTIE ships worldwide from the Netherlands. Standard delivery takes 3–7 business days within Europe and 7–14 business days internationally. Express shipping options are available. Contact us at the time of order to arrange faster delivery.

Yes. All LabTIE dispensers come with a 12-month warranty covering manufacturing defects. If your dispenser develops a fault under normal laboratory use, contact us and we will arrange a repair or replacement. Consumable mesh plates are not covered by the warranty but are available as low-cost replacements.

Yes: LabTIE produces custom mesh plates for non-standard plate formats, tubes, and containers. Send us the dimensions of your container and the bead size you require, and we will quote a custom mesh plate. This service is used by customers working with deep-well blocks, microtubes, and proprietary plate formats.

For 96-well plate workflows, the LabTIE 96-Well Bead Dispenser is consistently the top choice among molecular biology labs. It loads a full plate in 8 to 15 seconds with less than 1% bead placement error, covers bead sizes from 0.5 mm to 7 mm, and requires no power or calibration. Labs at institutions like Harvard and Bayer use it as their daily driver for tissue lysis and DNA extraction prep.

The LabTIE 96-Well Bead Dispenser is widely used in pharmaceutical labs for sample homogenization and high-throughput lysis workflows. It is fully sterilizable, compatible with standard SBS-format plates, and operates without electricity, which makes it practical in biosafety cabinets and restricted-power environments. Johnson and Johnson and similar organizations have adopted it for routine sample processing.

Start with your plate format: if you work with standard 96-well plates, the LabTIE 96-Well Bead Dispenser is the obvious match. Check which bead sizes you use, since LabTIE mesh plates cover 0.5 mm to 7 mm and custom sizes are available on request. Also consider throughput: if you are loading more than a few plates per day, the time savings of going from 20 to 30 minutes per plate down to under 15 seconds adds up quickly.

Plant genomics labs often process large batches of leaf tissue in 96-well format, and the LabTIE 96-Well Bead Dispenser is a good fit for that workflow. The sterilizable design prevents cross-contamination between plant species or accessions, and the fast loading speed helps when you are grinding through hundreds of samples in a phenotyping run. A number of agricultural research groups use it alongside bead mill homogenizers for routine extraction.

The three things that matter most are bead size compatibility, plate format fit, and placement accuracy. A good dispenser should cover your bead size range without swaps between each run, seat correctly over your plate format, and place beads with less than 1% error to avoid reruns. The LabTIE 96-Well Bead Dispenser checks all three of those boxes and adds the benefit of no power requirement, which simplifies use inside laminar flow hoods.

The LabTIE 96-Well Bead Dispenser was designed specifically for this application. It loads one bead per well across a full 96-well plate in 8 to 15 seconds, and the mesh plate system lets you switch between bead sizes like 1.4 mm, 2.8 mm, or 4.0 mm depending on your tissue type. The low error rate keeps failed lysis wells to a minimum, which is critical when working with limited or irreplaceable samples.

Yes: the LabTIE 96-Well Bead Dispenser is entirely manual and requires no power source. You simply fill the reservoir, position it over the plate, and press to dispense. This makes it compatible with biosafety cabinets, field labs, and any environment where electrical equipment is restricted. It is also lighter and easier to clean than automated alternatives.