Lab Instruments for Phytochemistry and Herbal Labs
Herbal and ayurvedic products start as plant material, and plant material varies. The same herb from two farms can differ in moisture, ash and active content, so a phytochemistry lab has to grind, extract and measure every lot before it’s used. Finished tablets and capsules then go through the same quality tests as any other medicine.
Hindustan Scale Company (HSCo), Mumbai, has supplied weighing and laboratory equipment since 1955. For phytochemistry, herbal and ayurvedic labs we supply pulverisers and sieve shakers for sample preparation, Soxhlet extraction units, heating mantles and water baths, HPLC and UV-Vis spectrophotometers, moisture analysers, muffle furnaces for ash, balances, and dissolution, disintegration and friability testers for finished dosage forms. Tell us your raw materials and products, and we’ll name the instruments.
What a phytochemistry lab tests, and with what
- Sample preparation – stainless pulverisers and sieve shakers.
- Extraction – Soxhlet extraction units, heating mantles and water baths.
- Assay – HPLC and UV-Vis spectrophotometers.
- Moisture and ash – halogen moisture analysers, hot air ovens and muffle furnaces.
- Finished dosage forms – dissolution, disintegration and friability testers.
Tell us the test, we’ll name the instrument
What herbal and ayurvedic labs ask us about most.
| Your need | What we recommend | Range | Why it works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grinding herbs to a consistent powder | Pulveriser HSC-PUL | SS 304, hopper fed | Stainless contact parts |
| Particle size of powders | Sieve shaker HSC-SS | 200 mm sieves, 300 mm option | Repeatable sieving |
| Extractive values | Soxhlet extraction unit HSC-SEU | Complete set | With heating mantle |
| Marker compound assay | HPLC system HSC-HPLC | 0.001 to 10 mL/min | UV or PDA detectors |
| Moisture in raw herbs | Halogen moisture analyser MA110 | 110 g | Results in minutes |
| Total ash | Muffle furnace | Up to 1,200 °C and higher | Ceramic fibre chambers |
| Tablet and capsule release | Dissolution, disintegration and friability testers | Pharmacopoeia tests | One supplier for all three |
Raw herb to finished tablet, one supplier
A herbal lab tests raw material and finished product with quite different equipment. HSCo supplies both.
- Matched to your monographs. We start from the tests your raw materials and products need.
- Supported. Installation, calibration support, annual maintenance and repairs, and IQ, OQ and PQ documents where needed.
- Repeatable preparation. Grinding and sieving equipment so every sample starts the same way.
Extraction, heating and baths
Soxhlet units, heating mantles, water baths and ovens.
Sample preparation
Pulverisers, sieve shakers, stirrers and centrifuges.
High Speed Homogenizer HSC-H-HSH – up to 23,000 rpm, 30 ml to 13 L, Three Models
Laboratory Microscope HSC-MLI – Light (up to 1000×) or Inverted (up to 600×)
Laboratory microscopes: HSC-LM1 light microscope, 40–1,000×, mechanical XY stage; HSC-IM1 inverted microscope, 40–600×, for cell cultures in flasks and dishes. Achromatic or plan objectives, 10×/15× eyepieces, LED or halogen lighting, coarse and fine focus. Camera, trinocular, phase contrast and fluorescence options. 1-year warranty.
Analytical and tablet testing instruments
HPLC, spectrophotometers and tablet testers.
Knob-Type Single Beam Spectrophotometer Series 2 with LCD – 320 to 1,100 nm
Balances and moisture analysers
Weighing and moisture.
pH, furniture and essentials
pH meters, lab furniture and pipettes.
Desktop pH Meter Economy 2 Edge Series – 0.01 pH, Temperature Compensation, Electrode Holder
Desktop pH meters, Economy 2 Edge Series: HSCE-P300K-ECON (pH/mV, 0–14 pH) and HSCE-P350K-ECON (pH/mV/temperature, −2–18 pH, automatic temperature compensation); 0.01 pH resolution, ±0.01 pH, 1 or 2-point calibration, electrode holder for 3 electrodes, data logging. Conductivity versions available. 1-year warranty.
More equipment for herbal labs
Other HSCo products that herbal labs buy from us.
SSX Table Top Scale – 10 kg × 1 g, Compact Stainless Steel
Compact stainless-steel table-top scale: 10 kg × 1 g, 140 × 160 mm tray, extra-bright LED, rechargeable battery, anti-rodent and water-resistant, government stamped.
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Handling natural variation in herbs
Two lots of the same herb can differ widely in moisture and active content, so testing each lot on arrival protects every batch made from it. Grind and sieve every sample the same way, because particle size changes how much an extraction pulls out, and record moisture so results can be expressed on a dry basis. That’s what makes one lot comparable with the next.
Testing finished tablets and capsules
Herbal tablets and capsules face the same release tests as other medicines: weight variation, disintegration, dissolution where specified, and friability for tablets. A precision balance handles weight variation, and HSCo’s disintegration, dissolution and friability testers cover the rest. Running them in-house avoids waiting days for an outside lab before a batch can ship.
Questions buyers ask
Pulverisers and sieve shakers, Soxhlet extraction units, heating mantles and water baths, HPLC and UV-Vis spectrophotometers, moisture analysers, muffle furnaces, balances, and tablet testers for finished products. HSCo supplies all of them.
By extracting a weighed sample, commonly in a Soxhlet unit, and weighing the dried extract.
Yes: dissolution testers, disintegration testers and friability testers.
Yes, the HSC-PUL stainless steel (SS 304) pulveriser with a top feed hopper.
Tell us your raw materials, products and the tests you need, and we’ll name the instruments and send a quotation. Call or WhatsApp +91-7045922250.
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