The COVID-19 pandemic created an immediate need for high volumes of affordable and effective SARS-CoV-2 testing kits. To produce enough rapid antigen test kits to help meet the global needs for testing, a high-throughput, automated production workflow was required.
US based InBios, a leading biotechnology company, utilized eight Ginolis Lateral Flow Device Assembly (LFDA) semi-automated and automated systems in a series. By doing this InBios upscaled production of rapid antigen test kits 20-fold, which enabled them to produce kits at a scale needed to contribute significantly to emergency demands for testing.