Olympus life and material science europa announced a range of major innovations on the latest version of the market leading OLA2500 Peri-Analytical Systems for medical laboratories. Since its introduction in 2001, the OLA2500 has rapidly established itself as the leading peri-analytical automation system throughout Europe. By enabling fully automated high speed decapping, aliquoting, sorting and archiving of any primary sample tube, the system has dramatically streamlined workflows to improve turnaround times and reduce time pressure for staff. The ability to accept different tube racks and interface with third party analysers has been a further major contributory factor to the instruments success with almost 300 placements across Europe.