Products spanning the analytical spectrum won top honours at the annual Pittcon Editors' Awards judging session in New Orleans this year, according to Dr. Gordon Wilkinson, consultant editor to Instrumenta who organised the informal poll of editors and journalists covering this major industry event for analytical instruments and laboratory equipment.
Selected as best new product at the show, from almost 20 nominations,the Gold Award went tothe Chromolith HPLC columns from Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany.These monolithic silica rods, which significantly reduce back pressure, aprovide dramatic reductions in separation time, while ensuring excellent quality separations'.
One of the judges stated that these innovative, monolithic columns could conceivably replace conventionalpacked silica columns within fiveyears. u
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Merck KGaA is based in Darmstadt, Germany. www.merck.de
