Easy, ergonomic and standardized serial dilutions

The Dilucup® System replaces traditional dilution tubes and vortex mixers, helping microbiology laboratories reduce preparation work, improve ergonomics and standardize microbiological dilution workflows.

Simplify every step of your dilution workflow

The Dilucup® System by LabRobot Products AB is a semi-automated serial dilution system designed specifically for microbiology laboratories. It uses sterile, ready-to-use dilution cups prefilled with 9 mL of diluent, together with dedicated shakers, to perform accurate decimal 1:10 dilutions.

Traditional dilution workflows often involve preparing diluents, filling tubes, sterilizing, performing quality control, cleaning, calibrating, and vortexing; all of which are time-consuming manual steps. By replacing conventional dilution tubes and vortex mixers, the Dilucup® System helps microbiology laboratories simplify their workflow, reduce hands-on time, and perform decimal dilutions more quickly, consistently, and ergonomically.

Save time

Improve ergonomics

Standardized dilutions that comply with ISO

Easy storage and long shelf-life (30 months)

Save money

Dilucup® System

Dilucup® Elegance: ready-to-use dilution cups pre-filled with 9 mL of diluent 

10-fold dilutions (1 mL sample + 9 mL diluent)

1-12 dilutions per sample

Ideal from a few samples to several hundreds per day

ISO-compatible microbiological dilution workflows

Applications: microbiological quality control in food, beverages, probiotics, cosmetics, water analysis and other industries where serial dilutions are part of the daily routine

How does it work?
  1. Open the number of Dilucups you need and pipette 1 mL of the sample into the first cup.
  2. Activate the shaking with the optical sensor or the pedal to create a vortex inside the cup.
  3. Transfer 1 mL from the first Dilucup® to the next one and continue until the desired number of dilutions is reached.
  4. Plate and incubate 1 mL to enumerate the microorganisms.
Trusted by microbiology laboratories around the world
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    “We are very satisfied with the Dilucup® and Dilushaker system. Together, they make sample preparation fast, simple, and reliable. They have significantly simplified and streamlined our laboratory workflow and have become an important part of our daily microbiological analyses.

    Daniel Strömberg,
    Laboratory Manager
    Gunnar Dafgård AB
    Sweden
    2026

  • Smooth process, good quality and always fast delivery.

    Peter Karlsson, Quality lab coordinator,
    Arla Foods Jönköping,
    Sweden
    2022 

  • "We are proud to collaborate with LabRobot, a partner that combines high performance with continuous innovation. Their solutions have become an essential added value for our customers by improving efficiency and simplifying everyday laboratory operations through intuitive and user-friendly technologies."

    Cristina Muchart, Product Strategy Manager Food & Life Science,
    Led Techno
    Benelux
    2026

  • "Easy and accurate to conduct measurements with Dilucup® System.
    The exact volume of the solvent and the constant shaking ensures a uniform concentration of the sample."

    Tetiana Garkavanko, Deputy Director,
    State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection,
    Ukraine
    2019

  • "Our customers who have adopted the Dilushaker quickly came to consider it an essential part of their workflow and could no longer imagine working without it, thanks to the significant improvements in efficiency, ease of use, and day-to-day laboratory operations."

    Neomed
    Italy
    2026

  • "We save a lot of time with Dilucup®! We don’t need to either prepare the dilution tubes or do quality control of the diluents.
    The Dilucup® System truly makes life easier!"

    Martina Costa, Director
    Globalab,
    Portugal
    2018

Latest news

Dilugent® Shaker service

2021-09-28

On September 27, we had the first Dilugent® Shaker service training with the technicians of our distributors from different countries. Remember that the instrument has a 2-year warranty from the purchase date … Read more

Twice as many samples

2021-08-31

Twice as many samples in the same space with Dilucup® Elegance. The design of Dilucup® allows the blisters to be packed in a way that significantly reduces footprint. Less volume equates to … Read more

High speed vortexed

2021-07-21

The design of Dilucup® allows its rotation at high speed (400-660 rpm) on Dilushaker III or Dilugent® Shaker without spilling. Once a lab has moved to Dilucup® it doesn’t move … Read more

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