By Anonymous on Wednesday, January 15, 2003 - 06:41 am:
I´m working for a small company and we may consider to purchase a HPLC. I know its difficult to tell how much it will be but I´d like to know how much we have to spend for a HPLC. We don´t want to make exotic analysis its considered to control the qualitity of synthesised lipids and maybe later drugs.
If its to expensive we´ll do it by contract analysis.
I just need to know the price range of an average HPLC.
Thank you in advance
By Benjamin on Wednesday, January 15, 2003 - 07:14 am:
Dear Anonymus;
You can count on spending anywhere from about 18K up to 40K for a HPLC instrument. If you buy a refurbished or demo unit perhaps you will get a discount of about 20-30%.
Benjamin
By Anonymous on Wednesday, January 15, 2003 - 08:12 am:
In analyzing the cost of the equipment take into consideration the cost of contracting something out. Depending on your separation, the LC would pay for itself in a couple of months.
By Anonymous on Wednesday, January 15, 2003 - 02:22 pm:
I would also throw in my 2 cents worth: make sure to get an autosampler as it's more precisse than a person, especially useful in validation experiments. Worth its weight in gold.
By Anonymous on Wednesday, January 15, 2003 - 04:22 pm:
These inlets are really cheap....:-)
By Anonymous on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 05:08 am:
Thank you.
Well, I have right now 65k€ in my budget plan and a bit more if needed.
Are there any fundamental differences between the various companys regarding the prices ?
Lets say I pay nearly twice as much when I buy from company x versus company y.
By Benjamin on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 05:25 am:
Dear Anonymus;
It seems like you are located in Europe since your budget is expressed in Euros. Well, over thre I understand everything is more expensive, I work in a multinational company and that problem has been discussed several times.
Instruments are about 20-30% more expensive in Europe because duties, taxes, dealership fees etc. In technical terms I could recommend you to select between Agilent and Waters, they seem to have the best units, but their prices are high in general.
Good luck;
Benjamin
By Jan on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 11:45 pm:
Benjamin is right : Agilent and Waters are defenitely the market leaders over here in Europe. Check if they have offices (with engineers) in your country. A full system (with autosampler/PC/software) is about 40k€ with single wavelength UV and 50k€ with PDA. These are prices without commercial discounts.
Jan
By Anonymous on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 02:54 am:
Take into account the quality of the service of your region (what is there experience? how long they are working for that company?)
PETER