WALTHAM, Mass., Jul 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today
announced that two of its instruments are 2011 R&D
100 Award winners: the Thermo Scientific Evolution 200 series UV-Vis
spectrophotometer and the Thermo Scientific Dionex ICS-5000 capillary
ion chromatography system. The R&D 100 Awards highlight the most
significant technological advances of the past year across medical,
industrial, research, consumer and manufacturing applications.
"Our company won its first R&D 100 award in 1969, and since then we've
continued to set the highest standards for R&D excellence," said Dr. Ian
Jardine, vice president, global research and development, Thermo Fisher
Scientific. "This recognition is important because it demonstrates how
seriously we take our commitment to customers to deliver new products
that accelerate the pace of scientific discovery."
The Evolution(TM)
200 spectrophotometer is designed for routine QA/QC analyses in the
life science, food and beverage, and material science industries.
Increasingly, companies focused on ISO 9000, Good Laboratory Practice
(GLP), Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and other quality initiatives
are relying on UV-visible spectrophotometers to confirm product quality
and integrity. FDA-required tablet dissolution testing, for example,
which helps assess the quality of tablets and capsules, is one of many
applications where the speed, precision and higher performance of the
Thermo Scientific Evolution 200 make it worthy of recognition.
The Dionex
ICS-5000, the world's first capillary ion chromatography (IC)
system, is used in the environmental, food and beverage, bioscience and
power-generation industries. The ICS-5000 is used to identify and
measure contaminants in water and other liquids, whether environmental
or produced by disinfection processes that may affect water quality. A
soft drink bottler, for example, could use this system to test raw and
treated water used in its beverages for contaminants such as bromate and
oxyhalides. The Dionex ICS-5000 system's award-winning benefits include
greater sensitivity, higher throughput and less chemical waste. In
addition, it sets new standards for performance that increase laboratory
productivity.
About Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving
science. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world
healthier, cleaner and safer. With revenues of nearly $11 billion, we
have approximately 37,000 employees and serve customers within
pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic
labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as
well as in environmental and process control industries. We create value
for our key stakeholders through two premier brands, Thermo Scientific
and Fisher Scientific, which offer a unique combination of continuous
technology development and the most convenient purchasing options. Our
products and services help accelerate the pace of scientific discovery,
and solve analytical challenges ranging from complex research to routine
testing to field applications. Visit www.thermofisher.com.
SOURCE: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
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