Leica Microsystems offers a fully automated high-throughput glass-on-glass coverslipper. The Leica CV5030 is designed to coverslip microscope glass slides bearing tissue sections or cytopathology smears. The instrument accepts quality-grade coverslips of different standard sizes and all common mounting media.

The capability of handling a large variety of slide racks from different suppliers makes the Leica CV5030 coverslipper a most flexible instrument. The possibilities of adaptation to individual laboratory needs is perfected through the option to integrate the Leica CV5030 with Leica's new ST5020 Multistainer making this combination a truly automated staining/coverslipping system.

The Leica CV5030 is designed to address the need for glass coverslipping with three major performance goals: Highly consistent and reliable coverslipping quality, maximum adaptation to individual laboratory set-ups, and integration into a staining/coverslipping workstation to form a fully automated walk-away system.

The Leica CV5030 is capable of high-throughput coverslipping of more than 500 slides per hour using standard microscope slides and glass coverslips of different sizes. Ease of use is achieved due to simple loading/unloading of glass-mounted histology sections or cytology smears and one-button operation. The operator has the choice between wet and dry coverslipping. All common mounting media, including xylene-free varieties can be used according to individual operator settings.

A fume control system including an activated carbon filter is located in the instrument to protect the user from hazardous fumes. High flexibility is guaranteed since the Leica CV5030 can be adapted within seconds to work with all common slide rack types from different suppliers.

The Leica CV5030 may be used as a stand-alone coverslipper or in combination with any of the current Leica staining machines (Leica Autostainer XL, Leica ST4040 linear stainer).

• High-throughput glass-on-glass coverslipper: more than 400 slides / hour
• Designed for histology sections and cytopathology smears
• Auto-slip magazine for automatic adaptation to different coverslip sizes
• User defined mounting media settings
• Acceptance of a large variety of slide rack types
• Option to connect to ST5020 Multistainer for fully integrated workstation
• CE-, UL-, c-UL-, VDE-approved