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| 2009 IBO Industrial Design Awards Announced
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Aug 15, 2009
Los Angeles, CA - Instrument Business Outlook (IBO) today announced the winners of the 15th annual IBO Design Awards for excellence in the industrial design of analytical instruments, portable analytical instruments and laboratory equipment. The winners of the 2009 Awards demonstrate how industrial design can improve a product's performance and the end-user's experience. The winners are:
Analytical Instrument Industrial Design:
Gold Award: Waters's ACQUITY UPLC and XEVO TQ MS
Silver Award: Invitrogen's Countess
Bronze Award: Grace Davison's Reveleris
Portable Analytical Instrument Industrial Design:
Gold Award: Veritide's Ceeker
Silver Award: Spectro's FluidScan
Bronze Award: XOS's SINDIE OTG
Laboratory Equipment Industrial Design:
Gold Award: Genevac's Rocket
Silver Award: Metrohm's 862 Compact Titrosampler
Bronze Award: HTA's HT800L
To be eligible for a Design Award, a product must have begun shipping between August 2008 and July 2009. Award candidates are chosen from the new products that IBO monitors through trade shows, trade publications and press releases. Award winners are selected solely based on their industrial designs, not on technical capabilities or performance. Criteria include aesthetics, functionality and features.
IBO is a 12-page, subscription-based newsletter published twice monthly by Strategic Directions International, Inc. (SDi), a management and marketing research firm dedicated to the analytical and life science instrument industry. SDi is the world's leading source of information on the market for analytical and life science instrumentation and equipment for laboratory and on-site applications. For more information, visit www.strategic-directions.com or contact:
Tanya Samazan, Managing Editor
Strategic Directions International, Inc.
6242 Westchester Parkway, Suite 100
Los Angeles, CA 90045-4820
Tel: (310) 641-4982
Fax: (310) 641-8851
E-mail: tsamazan@strategic-directions.com
For Europe only -
Lars Ekstrom, Senior Editor-Europe
Linkbridge Ltd.
173 Quemerford
Calne SN11 8JX United Kingdom
Tel: (+44) 1249 811 476
E-mail: IBO@linkbridge.com
| 2009 Analytical Instrument Industrial Design Awards | | Gold | Silver | Bronze |  | | | | Waters' ACQUITY UPLC and XEVO TQ MS | Invitrogen's Countess | Grace Davison's Reveleris | | 2009 Portable Analytical Instrument Industrial Design Awards | | Gold | Silver | Bronze | | | | | | Veritide's Ceeker | Spectro's FluidScan | XOS's SINDIE OTG | | 2009 Laboratory Equipment Industrial Design Awards | | Gold | Silver | Bronze | | | | | | Genevac's Rocket | Metrohm's 862 Compact Titrosampler | HTA's HT800L |
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