from Inficon Holding AG (Bad Ragaz, Switzerland;
www.inficon.com); Spinsolve 13C NMR instrument from Magritek Ltd. (Wellington, New Zealand;
www.magritek.com); Select-eV variable energy ion source from Markes International Ltd. (Llantrisant, Wales;
www.markes.com); DSC 214 Polyma from Netzsch Group (Selb, Germany;
www.netzsch. com); VeriAir Flex sample bag from Nextteq LLC (Tampa, FL;
www.next-
teq.com); Progeny handheld Raman from Rigaku Corp. (Tokyo, Japan;
www.rigaku.com), Z handheld LIBS from SciAps Inc. (Woburn, MA;
www.sciaps.com); Dionex ERS 500 ion suppressor from Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, MA;
www.thermofisher.com); and ionKey/MS from Waters Corp. (Milford, MA;
www.waters.com).
Conclusion The Pittcon Editors’ Awards, in their nineteenth year, are managed and
Figure 2 – Explaining the features of the ACQUITY QDa is Elizabeth Hodgdon (right), Senior Product Manager, Waters, to Instrument News’ Stefan Fritsch, Editor, and Jane Groom, Marketing and Sales.
selected entirely by journalists attending the exposition. For more in- formation on the awardees and to view video interviews, please visit
www.pittcon.org/press.
Marian Nardozzi is Senior Marketing Communications Specialist, The Pittsburgh Conference, 300 Penn Center Blvd., Ste. 332, Pittsburgh, PA 15235, U.S.A.; tel.: 412-825-3220, ext. 203; fax: 412-825-3224; e-mail:
nardozzi@pittcon.org;
www.pittcon.org
Figure 3 – Accepting the award for AB SCIEX is Edna Betgovargez, Market Manager, from Stefan Fritsch, Editor, Instrument News.
(LIBS), Raman, and imaging, are in the forefront. Mass spectrometry is also very important. Yes, we live in interesting times.”
Honorable mentions In addition to the three top recipients, there were 15 honorable mentions: Capture Mobile Data Recording App for Lab Informatics from Accelrys Inc. (San Diego, CA;
www.accelrys.com); Liberty Blue microwave peptide synthesizer and Discover SPX microwave sample preparation system from CEM Corp. (Matthews, NC;
www.cem.com); Spero Laser midIR Microscope from Daylight Solutions Inc. (San Diego, CA; www.daylight-
solutions.com); Chorus Purelab water purification systems from ELGA LabWater VWS Ltd. (High Wycombe, England;
www.elgalabwater.com); Halo ceiling-mounted air filtration system from Erlab Group (North Andover, MA;
www.erlab.com); Ultima Expert ICP-OES from Horiba Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan;
www.horiba.com); Micro GC Fusion Gas Analyzer
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