Pittcon Editors' Awards 2005
In the April issue of LCGC magazine, there was a "clear runaway
for the top product at this year's Pittcon" along with some bona-fide controversy.
This years' informal poll of editors covering this major industry event for analytical
instrumentation and laboratory equipment attracted 30 nominations from 21 nominating
editors.... this is how the chips fell this year:
Pittcon Editors' Gold Award
JEOL Ltd. Dart MS Ionization
Technology
Pittcon Editors' Silver Award
Dionex Corp. ICS-3000 Reagent-Free Research Grade Ion Chromatography System
ESA Biosciences, Inc. Corona CAD (charged Aerosal Detector)
Shimadzu
Corp LC/MS-IT-TOF Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometer
Pittcon Editors' Bronze Award
Agilent Technologies Inc. HPLC-Chip
ESI/MS Spectrometer
Other nominations were in alphabetical order: Agilent Technologies Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) — Multimode Source for Simultaneous APCI-ESI ionization for MS; Ahura Corp. (Wilmington, MA) — First Defender (handheld RAMAN-based chemical identifcation system); Aspectrics, Inc. (Pleasanton, CA) — Miniature EP-IR (encoded photometrics infrared) Spectrometer; Bruker Daltronics (Billerica, MA) — Micro ToFQ; Bruker AXS (Billerica, MA) — VANTEC 2000 X-ray Source; Bruker Optics (Billerica, MA) — Senterra Dispersive RAMAN Microscope; BioTools Inc. (Wauconda, IL) — Easy RAMAN/IR; CEM Corp. (Matthews, NC) — Investigator RAMAN; Hirox Co, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) — Hirox 3D Portable Video Microscope System; Mesophotonics Ltd. (Southampton, England) — Klarite Slides for Substrate-Enhanced RAMAN Spectroscopy; Ocean Optics, Inc. (Dunedin, FL) — Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectrometer; Pall Corp. (East Hill, NJ) — Cascada Lab Water Systems; Pike Technologies, Inc. (Madison, WI) — Sample Compartment Microscope; Polychromix, Inc. (Wilmington, MA) — DTS NIR Spectrometer; Radleys Discovery Technologies, Ltd. (Saffron Walden, England) — Starfish Heating & Stirring Experiment Workstation; Selerity Technologies, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT) — Caloratherm Temperature Conditioner for HPLC; Smiths Detection (London, England) — ChemID FTIR Spectrometer; Syft Technologies, Ltd. (Christchurch, New Zealand) — Sift MS Analyzer; Thermo Electron Corp. (Waltham, MA) — Darwin LIMS; Thermo Electron Corp. (Waltham, MA) — LeadStream ADME/TOX Automated Platform; Ultrasonic Scientific Inc. (Dublin, Ireland) — HR-US Colloid Stability Analyzer; Valley Optics Inc. (Fremont, CA) — VENKATA Mini NIR Spectrometer; Varian Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) — Cary 50 Microplate Reader; Waters Corp. (Milford, MA) — Metabolite ID System; Wyatt Technology Corp. (Santa Barbara, CA) — Dawn HELEOS Multi-Angle Light Scattering Detector.
It has been noted in another forum that there was some controversy among the Pittcon Editors this year about including Shimadzu as a 3rd winner in the Silver Award category. Apparently, at least two Pittcon editors didn't think Shimadzu was worthy of a Pittcon Editors Award at all! Money can buy a lot of things these days including influence. One just has to wonder if Shimadzu bought off some Pittcon editors in their quest to garner a Pittcon Editors Award. Since they were listed as #3 in the Silver category, they were technically 4th in place. And there is no 4th place award. Shimadzu's questionable "Silver Award" is tarnished! Shimadzu should have received the "BUSTED Toilet Award" for the SHIT-madzu they produce day-in and day-out!
You demand performance and productivity.... Shimadzu DOESN'T Deliver!
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