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Anachem Celebrates New Ownership in 40th Anniversary Year
Since 1970 Anachem Ltd (Luton, UK) has been supporting scientists in the UK and Ireland with an extensive range of high quality pipetting and laboratory supplies. Now, in its fortieth year, the Company is very proud to announce that it has become part of Mettler Toledo International Inc.
This new ownership will further strengthen Anachem’s leadership in the liquid handling market. The relationship will also bring additional choices in pipetting for Anachem’s customers that were previously inaccessible.
“As part of the Mettler Toledo organisation we will now be able to introduce our customers to the entire range of RAININ pipettes,” said Carole Staniford, Marketing Director, Anachem Ltd. “These products offer advances in ergonomics and performance, essential for today’s demanding laboratory procedures.”
The Anachem and RAININ names have always been closely aligned since Ken Rainin became one of the founder members of Anachem back in 1970. The two Companies have both enjoyed significant growth and
success since then and RAININ itself became part of Mettler Toledo in 2001.
“The acquisition of Anachem will enable us to better serve customers in the UK and Ireland with our full product range, by providing the best local sales and service support,” said Graham Eley, General Manager, Mettler Toledo UK.
Anachem will continue to supply and service a comprehensive range of laboratory equipment and consumables from other leading manufacturers.
TO FIND OUT MORE CIRCLE NO. 532 Syrris Receives Prestigious Awards
Syrris’ Nick Tait (left) collecting first of two UKTI awards from Lord Digby Jones
Syrris, a leading flow-chemistry, microreactor and automation product innovator, was awarded the ‘Eastern Region’s UKTI Best Established Exporter’ and the ‘Most Outstanding Export Achievement’ at the recent Global Opportunity Conference on International Trade. The UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) trade awards are presented in recognition of successful overseas selling. The Company recorded 90% of 2009 sales to date from outside of the UK. This success has been further reflected by year on year growth of 130%, and Syrris now boasts a global
network of 25 distributers. Combined with their subsidiary offices in the US, Japan and most recently, in India, Syrris’s complete product offering is available worldwide with extensive customer service and support.
Vic Annells, UKTI Regional International Trade Director commented; “We are delighted to recognise the achievements of such innovative, entrepreneurial companies who have succeeded in building their business overseas through the help of UKTI.” As such, Syrris is delighted to have received such a celebrated award.
TO FIND OUT MORE CIRCLE NO. 533 Meiji Win Race Awards
2009 saw Meiji enter the world of sponsorship in motor racing and it was a great success. The BARC Dunlop Clubmans Cup series reached an exciting climax with Meiji-sponsored Jonathan Hair driving in a Mallock Mk28 EBX sports racing car painted in the livery of Meiji Techno ending as runner up in his first season racing.
Jonathan (see below) is pictured with engineer, Jim Yardley (left) and Meiji Managing Director Richard Fry with the group of trophies presented at the 2009 Clubman Annual Awards Dinner.
As well as his champions runner’s up award, Jonathan was presented with the best newcomer award. In recognition of his engineering achievements over many years, Jim was given two awards: The Tom Orbell Shield and the Peter Colby Memorial Trophy. Last but not least, team leader Richard holds the Rover Trophy, the team owners’ prize.
Jonathan “Jonty” Hair before the race at Silverstone in May 2009. TO FIND OUT MORE CIRCLE NO. 534
Regenerative Medicines
Funding Supports BIGT Goals
The BioIndustry Association (BIA) has welcomed Lord Mandelson’s announcement that the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) will invest £5.3 million over the next five years in a Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Regenerative Medicine at Loughborough University. The centre will also receive £3 million from 28 industrial and government partners. The Bioscience Innovation and Growth Team Review and Refresh of Bioscience 2015, published in January 2009, called for investment in the emerging regenerative medicine industry, which offers the possibility of cures, rather than life-long treatments. The Government’s New Industry New Jobs proposals and the Office for Life Sciences’ Life Sciences Blueprint also recognised that high technology manufacturing, such as that required in the regenerative medicines field, will be crucial to the UK’s economic future. Clive Dix, BIA Chairman, said: “This announcement about investment in regenerative medicine further exhibits the Government’s commitment to ensuring that the cutting edge science coming from the UK’s innovative life sciences sector is turned into the world-leading treatments of the future.”
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Support Specialist for Analytik
New to Analytik Ltd’s application support team, Heather Murray brings over 15 years experience to the company in all elements of sales, application support and product management This includes market verification through the development cycle to high impact promotion, international launch and field sales worldwide. This is all backed up by a strong academic background, including a PhD in Raman Spectroscopy. She will initially be responsible for application support, direct sales and business development for the company’s portable and handheld Near-Infrared instruments.
“This is a fantastic move for Analytik,” said MD Ian Laidlaw. “The technical knowledge that Heather brings to the table will undoubtedly strengthen our position in offering comp rehensive and timely application support to all our customers; something that is core to our business.”
With involvement in the development of molecular spectroscopy instrumentation including Raman, Near-Infrared and Infrared, Heather has previously worked for PerkinElmer and Thermo Nicolet.
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