Pittcon Editors' Awards 2004
In a press release dated March 12th 2004, the PITTCON editors noted
"with the winning products originating in research from a spectrum of companies large
and small, old and young, the awards highlight the strength of innovation across the
analytical instrument industry." This years' informal poll of editors covering this
major industry event for analytical instrumentation and laboratory equipment, attracted 22
nominations proposed by 11 editors from various publications.... this is how the chips
fell this year:
Pittcon Editors' Gold Award
Bruker Optics Inc. TPI Spectra 1000 Pulsed-time Domain Tetrahertz Spectrometer
and Waters Corp. ACQUITY Ultra
Performance Liquid Chromatrography Platform
Pittcon Editors' Silver Award
Wyatt Technology Corp. Optilab
rEX Extended Range Refractive Index Detector
Pittcon Editors' Bronze Award
Axsun Technologies Inc. NIR-APS
Analyzers
Other nominations were in alphabetical order: Agilent Technologies Inc (Palo Alto, CA) — Orthogonal Nanospray Ion Source; Brookhaven Instruments (Holtsville, NY) — BI-MwA Molecular Weight Analyzer; ChromBA (State College, PA) — Fractionating Columns for HPLC; Control Development Inc (South Blend, IN) — Blend Uniformity Monitor and Dryer Monitor; Dionex Corp (Sunnyvale, CA) — APS-2000 Series Autopurification System; Griffin Analytical Technologies Inc (West Lafayette, IN) — Minotaur 300 cylindrical ion trap MS; Haber Inc (Bayonne, NJ) — EMP 15 D/A electromolecular propulsion instrument; Lux Biotechnology Ltd (Edinburgh, Scotland) — Glowells TM; Mettler-Toledo (Greifensee, Switzerland) — DSC 822e with high-sensitivity (HSS7) sensor; Nanostream Inc (Pasadena, CA) — VeloceTM/BrioTM micro-parallel HPLC system; QuantomiX Inc (Weizmann Science Park, Israel) — QX capsule for wet sample SEM; SLS Micro Technology (Hamburg, Germany) — GCM 5000 micro GC; Thermo Electron Corp (Waltham, MA) — LTQ LC-MS linear ion trap; Ultrasonic Scientific Ltd (Dublin, Ireland) — Ultrasonic Titration Kinetic Analyser; Varian Inc (Palo Alto, CA) — CP-4900 DMD micro GC and the 4000 Ion Trap GC-MS; and Waters Corp (Waltham, MA) — Waters Micromass Quattro PremierTM tandem quadrupole mass spectrometer.
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!
You demand performance and productivity.... Shimadzu DOESN'T Deliver!
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