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For a fourth year, Inc. magazine has named Tiger Optics LLC (USA) to its 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the United States. Among manufacturers on the 2012 list, the magazine ranked Tiger as the 76th fastest-growing concern, based on its percentage revenue growth from 2008 to 2011.
In the greater Philadelphia area, the magazine rated Tiger Optics as the 71st fastest-growing private company. Nationwide, Tiger ranks 2,285th on the 2012 Inc. 500|5000.
Founded in 2001, Tiger makes extremely sensitive, laser-based environmental air monitors for continuous emissions and agricultural process control, as well as gas analysers to monitor highly critical processes for semiconductor fabrication plants, High Brightness LEDs and gas manufacturers. With close to 1,500 robust Tiger units serve these demanding applications, along with the metrology institutes of 16 nations. The company’s devices utilise Continuous Wave Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CW CRDS), a patented technology developed in the early 1990s by Kevin Lehmann, then a chemistry professor at Princeton University.
The company makes all of its products in Pennsylvania, while over 50 percent of its sales occur in foreign markets. Its 2011 revenue of $10.3 million rose 110 percent from 2008 revenue of $4.9 million. Previously, Inc. magazine named Tiger Optics to its 500|5000 lists in 2011, 2009 and 2008.
To qualify for the current list, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2008. They had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2011.
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SenseAir AB (Sweden) recently announced that the Board of Directors has named Christer Engnér as interim Chief Executive Officer. As interim CEO, Christer Engnér will manage the company's day-to-day operations with assistance from SenseAir’s management team.
Christer Engnér has extensive experience in managing technology companies from the technical areas to the financial. He has held the position of CEO for Gäddede Elektronik, an Electronic Manufacturing Supplier in Sweden, as well as Genetech Systems Sweden, provider of backup power systems solutions. Prior to those roles, he had senior management roles in Solectron and Flextronics responsible for business development, industrialization and account management.
"The Board is pleased to welcome Christer as the Interim CEO for SenseAir. Christer has a strong and particularly relevant background to lead the company on its significant trajectory of growth. SenseAir has tremendous opportunity ahead and the board feels confident that Christer will successfully lead the company into this next stage" says Gunnar Boman, the Chairman of SenseAir.
"It is a privilege to become the interim CEO at such a successful company as SenseAir AB. The company’s world leading products within the field of gas sensors and it’s very competent staff constitutes an amazing platform for the future. To be a part of this feels hugely stimulating and challenging to me" says Christer Engnér.
The board have also moved to thank Arvid Egeland for his 19 years of service to the company, most importantly for his work in building Senseair from an early stage start up to a successful 120 MSek revenue company. Mr. Egeland will hold a Sales role focusing primarily in Asia, and report to the new CEO.
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Fluoride Testing Kits Donated for AMCHI Dental Outreach Project
Palintest Ltd (UK), specialists in water analysis products, is delighted to support the AMCHI Dental Outreach Project in India. The AMCHI project aims to provide primary dental care to remote communities in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir.
The project includes field testing of fluoride levels in local drinking water supplies, as high concentrations can cause dental fluorosis in children - resulting in permanent tooth damage, pain and discomfort. Palintest Ltd has donated the equipment and reagents that will enable volunteers to perform the necessary tests simply, accurately and reliably.
The AMCHI 2012 project will provide initial primary dental care for villagers, as well as education regarding methods to limit exposure to high fluoride concentrations. The field testing equipment will be crucial to the education process and on-going prevention of the condition.
The AMCHI Dental Outreach Project 2012 is entirely funded by donation and donors can contribute via the
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European Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis Centre Partners with the Joint Mass Spectrometry Centre
The LECO (USA) European Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis Centre is providing access to high resolution mass spectrometry instrumentation to the Joint Mass Spectrometry Centre, a cooperative partnership between the University of Rostock and the Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health.
The Joint Mass Spectrometry Centre will utilise the LECO Citius LC-HRT (High Resolution TOFMS) and Pegasus GC-HRT for applied research in areas such as health-relevant environmental analysis, comprehensive molecular profiling, biomedical and forensic research, and analytical method development. Designed for complex sample analysis, LECO’s HRT instrumentation provides acquisition speeds of up to 200 spectra/second, mass resolution up to 100,000 FWHM, and mass accuracy less than 1 ppm.
The Joint Mass Spectrometry Centre is led by Prof. Dr. Ralf Zimmermann, who also serves as both the chair of analytical chemistry at the University of Rostock and the head of the comprehensive molecular analytics cooperation group at the Helmholtz Zentrum München.
“LECO is honoured to support the work of Prof. Dr. Zimmermann and the Joint Mass Spectrometry Centre characterising complex molecular mixtures,” said Jürgen Wendt, LCMS Technical Product Specialist, LECO European Life Science and Chemical Analysis Centre. “We are confident that his team will significantly benefit from the advantages provided by High Resolution TOFMS.”
The teams at both the Joint Mass Spectrometry Centre and LECO have high expectations for the partnership.
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“For the past 10 years at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, we have worked very successfully with GCxGC-TOFMS technology,” said Prof. Dr. Ralf Zimmermann. “In the framework of our most recent cooperation, we are now very much looking forward to new, exciting applications with the novel LECO fast high resolution TOF systems, the GC-HRT and LC-HRT. The new HRT technology platform is perfectly suited for our complex molecular characterisation applications in the field of energy and fuels, environmental research, and metabolomics.”
“My expectation is novel applications of cutting-edge technology,” said Dr. Jeff Patrick, Director of Marketed Technology, LECO Separation Science. “The experience and creativity of Dr. Zimmermann and his team will allow the LECO HRT platform to be highlighted and fully utilised to solve meaningful problems in environmental science, metabolomics, and more. Speaking with Dr. Zimmermann and the scientists at Helmholtz, I’m excited about the possibilities, and I think other scientists will be just as excited about the outcomes.”
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New Export Sales Manager
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Leading manufacturer of online and portable water quality measuring equipment, Partech Instruments (UK), has appointed David Wilson as Export Sales Manager. David joins Partech with over 7 years experience in water quality and level experience in the natural water and effluent discharge market. Having work for equipment manufacturers, distributors and installer's David brings with him an in-depth knowledge of both water quality sensor technology and distribution management . A particular strength with Optical Dissolved Oxygen sensors makes him well placed to continue Partech's commitment to ensure the availability of the most up to date technology for our customers.
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IET September / October 2012
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