Pittcon Editors' Awards 2003

In a press release dated March 12th 2003, Pittcon.org noted "This year's PITTCON^TM Editors' Awards received the highest number of nominations ever, with 21 products proposed by a total of 18 editors, according to Dr. Brenda Wilkinson, consultant editor to Instrumenta, who organized the informal poll of editors and journalists covering this major industry event for analytical instruments and laboratory equipment. Nominations covered a wide range of technologies, with innovations in mass spectrometry being particularly well represented." Four prominent vendors were singled out and rewarded for their cutting edge technologies and innovations.... this is how the chips fell this year:

Pittcon Editors' Gold Award

Dionex ICS 2000 Reagent-Free^TM Ion Chromatography System

Pittcon Editors' Silver Award

Thermo Electron Corp. Finnigan LTQ Ion Trap - Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer

Pittcon Editors' Bronze Award

Leco Corp. Pegasus^TM 4D with ChromaTOF^TM Software

and Ionalytics Selectra^TM Dynamic Ion Filter

Other nominations were, in alphabetical order: Agilent Technologies Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) - Broadband Dielectric Spectrometer and its 1100 Series LC/MSD Trap XCT; Air Liquide America L.P. (Houston, TX) - CEM MIV specialty gas solution; BOC Gases (Murray Hill, NJ) - ultrahigh purity CO₂ for SFC\SFE; Bruker Biospin Corp. (Billerica, MA) - UltraShield Plus actively-shielded superconducting NMR magnets; Bruker Daltonics Inc. (Billerica, MA) - APEX-Q mass spectrometer; CEM Corp. (Matthews, NC) - Voyager^TM flow-through system for laboratory scale-up of microwave synthesis; Horiba Instruments Inc. (Irvine, CA) - XGT-5000 X-ray microscope; JEOL USA Inc. (Peabody, MA) - TEEMmate ^TM tuneable-energy electron monochromator for MS; Microsolv Technology Corp. (Long Branch, NJ) - Type C Silica; Ocean Optics Inc. (Dunedin, FL) - EviDot Semiconductor Nanocrystals; PreSens Precision Sensing GmbH (Regensburg, Germany) - fluorescence O₂ pH analyzer for multiwell titer plates; Swagelok Company (Solon,OH) Process Analyzer Modular Sampling Platform; Tekmar-Dohrmann (Mason, OH) - Velocity XPT^TM accelerated purge and trap sample concentrator; Thermo Electron Corp. (Waltham, MA) - CABER rheometer; Ultrasonic-Scientific Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland) - HR-US HTP high throughput ultrasonic spectrometer; Varian Inc. (Walnut Creek, MA) - quadrupole ICP-MS with gigahertz sensitivity.

Take the advice of the Pittcon Editors who put considerable time and effort into producing this gold, silver and bronze list of vendors that have distinguished themselves far and above the competition. You'll have to forgive us for not noting who wasn't worthy of inclusion on this select list.... they didn't even muster a nomination!

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