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| 2007 IBO Industrial Design Awards Announced
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Aug 15, 2007
Los Angeles, CA Instrument Business Outlook (IBO) today announced the winners of the fourteenth annual IBO Design Awards for excellence in the industrial design of analytical instruments, portable analytical instruments and laboratory equipment. The winners of the 2007 Awards demonstrate how industrial design can improve a products performance and the end-users experience. The winners are:
Analytical Instrument Industrial Design:
Gold Award: Bruker BioSciences ALPHA FT-IR Spectrometer
Silver Award: AMETEKs SPECTRO ARCOS ICP-OES
Bronze Award: Applied Biosystems StepOne Real-Time PCR System
Portable Analytical Instrument Industrial Design:
Gold Award: Innov-X Systems X-50 Portable XRF Spectrometer
Silver Award: Aurora Photonics PortArray 5000 Portable Microarray Reader
Bronze Award: Scent Detection Technologies Mini-Nose 1000 Explosives Trace Detector
Laboratory Equipment Industrial Design:
Gold Award: Q.Instruments RIO Micro Thermo Shaker
Silver Award: Fritschs PULVERISETTE 7 Premium Line Planetary Mills
Bronze Award: Velp Scientifica/Neutecs Vortex Wizard Vortex Mixer
To be eligible for a Design Award, a product must have begun shipping between August 2006 and July 2007. 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 worlds leading source of information on the market for analytical and life science instrumentation and equipment for laboratory and on-site applications.
For more information, 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
| 2007 Analytical Instrument Industrial Design Awards | | Gold | Silver | Bronze |  | | | | Bruker BioSciences' ALPHA
FT-IR Spectrometer | AMETEK's SPECTRO ACROS
ICP-OES | Applied Biosystems' StepOne Real-Time PCR System | | 2007 Portable Analytical Instrument Industrial Design Awards | | Gold | Silver | Bronze | | | | | | Innov-X Systems' X-50
Portable XRF Spectrometer | Aurora Photonics' PortArray 5000
Portable Microarray Reader | Scent Detection Technologies' Mini-Nose 1000
Explosive Trace Detector | | 2007 Laboratory Equipment Industrial Design Awards | | Gold | Silver | Bronze | | | | | | Q.Instruments' RIO
Micro Thermo Shaker | Fritsch's Pulverisette 7 Premium Line Planetary Mills | Velp Scientifica/Neutec's
Vortex Wizard Vortex Mixer |
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