Collection: Incubators & Ovens

Gravity convection moves air by the natural rise of warm air — quiet, gentle, and kind to delicate or easily dried samples, but less uniform. Forced-air models circulate air with a fan for tighter uniformity and faster recovery after door openings, at the cost of more evaporation. Benchmark's SureTemp incubators are dual-convection, letting you switch modes per protocol.

Whenever you culture mammalian cells in bicarbonate-buffered media — the CO2 atmosphere maintains physiological pH, and elevated humidity prevents media evaporation. Bacterial plates usually need only a stable 37 °C air incubator. Benchmark's SureTherm CO2 series covers cell-culture work, including an IncuView option with live-cell imaging inside the chamber.

Incubators hold gentle, biological temperatures — typically ambient to roughly 60–80 °C — with tight stability for growing cultures. Ovens run far hotter for drying glassware, curing, and heat treatment, trading fine stability for range. Using an oven to incubate cultures risks overshoot, while drying labware in an incubator simply takes too long.

Yes, if your setpoint is near or below ambient — 25 °C yeast, insect-cell, or enzyme work in a warm Israeli lab needs active cooling, not just heating. Heating-and-cooling models such as the myTemp 65 HC or the refrigerated Incu-Shaker 10LR hold sub-ambient setpoints reliably. Heat-only chambers drift upward when room temperature approaches the setpoint.

Capacity (how many flasks of which size fit), speed range under a full flask load, and temperature control — 37 °C growth plus cooling to 16–18 °C if you induce overnight. That cooling requirement points to refrigerated models like the Incu-Shaker 10LR rather than heat-only units. Also confirm the platform accepts your clamp sizes.

Benchmark Scientific's incubator and oven range — myTemp, SureTemp, SureTherm CO2, and Incu-Shaker lines — reaches Israeli labs through Danyel Biotech, the official local distributor. Local stock, installation guidance, and application support are included; start with a quote request from this page.