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Take a look at surescreen.com in Derby. A joke web site that's one step up from a market trader. No way is this company manufacturing anything. It's actually re-selling stuff from either China or eastern Europe. It probably has a packaging department that persuades the clowns in Whitehall they are kosher.
I just weep. And I've lost the will to look at the others.
roly12....Avacta is concentrating sales on large distributors and end companies and therefore will be dealing with professional buyers. They will understand what affimers are all about and their accuracy compared to run of the mill antibodies. The general population will quickly get up to speed.
What I'm talking about are the trays that punch out hundreds of plastic widgets an hour. In order to increase overall capacity more trays are needed and they are highly specialised bits of kit made by the likes of CarClo (CAR).
Radiagreen.....where in Europe have we completed TT? I recall AS saying on the 21st June Avacta was halfway through the process. And TT varies for every new contractor....depending on how much they manufacture on site and how much is bought in. It's a complicated game and probably involves tooling which will have a long lead time.
AS said at 30m:08s:
"Over the next weeks and months we expect to report a number of commercial deals both with distributors and directly with end users and behind that there is a strong pipeline of future AffiDX tests utilising the affimer platform."
Fingers crossed Avacta will now begin to catch up on a timeline that got bent somewhere....in my opinion.
Myles McNulty
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Testing for #COVID19 is clearly not going anywhere for a long, long time.
For me, product quality will quickly become a priority for businesses and at-home use alike.
AffiDX - first-in-class.
Despite the lack of news on commercial orders, #AVCT is perfectly positioned.
7/7
https://twitter.com/MylesMcNulty/status/1417030896075542536
Good article in this morning's newspaper by Whitehall Correspondent...Gabriel Pogrund. Since July 7th he's administered 9 LFT's with the score at 6-3 to the positive LFT's. He writes about Innova and its background with the US-FDA's warning to trash the tests but also quotes Oxford Uni's advice to ministers "good, with a low failure rate".
Longish and depressing article ........ we are in a ship of fools.
Final paragraph" Over the past 24 hours, I have taken two further lFT's ,(doesn't say which make) the results of which perhaps sum this up more eloquently than anything else. The first was positive. The second was negative. As definitive as a 0-0 scoreline.
If there is an NDA it's probably because of the government equipment AS says was lent to Avacta's manufacturers....presumably GAD and Abingdon. But I'm beginning to lose the plot so all theories welcome.
From Bella's post:
"And doesn't it mean we can licence out the manufacturing of our full LFT kit as a full unit not just our Affimer"
Not the whole picture....I think it's rather more complicated. TT also involves mass production (moulds etc) and Avacta definitely is not a mould manufacturer! Carclo (CAR) I believe do make the moulds so any overseas TT licensee would also have to be ordering kit from CAR....with quite a long lead time. Not straightforward.