New Product Showcase
The Gulf Coast Conference will sponsor a New Product Showcase to provide a forum for the introduction of new technology and innovation to our attendees. On Tuesday and Wednesday of the meeting from 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM there will be special table top displays with new products and technology for your examination. Several vendors will provide these products and personnel to describe them during these specific times in the convention center lunch area.We are asking all Attendees to stop by and take a look at these products and complete an opinion survey about what you see. One survey will be drawn on Wednesday evening from the completed surveys and that person will receive a LIFETIME registration to the Gulf Coast Conference!
The GCC will appreciate your participation, and we know that the participating vendors will as well!
Listed below are the participating exhibitors.
  Company: Thermo Scientific Contact: Robert Swaim Phone: 281-360-2740 Email: Robert.swaim@thermofisher.com Category: Best New Product The Exactive is a new bench top accurate mass LC/MS from Thermo Scientific based on the revolutionary Orbitrap technology. When equipped with any of several atmospheric ion sources, the Exactive provides mass resolution up to 100,000 in a one second scan and better than 2 ppm mass accuracy for determination of empirical formulas. This excellent instrument is provided with Pathfinder software to make the system a walk up device for routine applications that challenge normal laboratory equipment. When combined with the high energy collision cell, the Exactive also can provide empirical formula information on mass fragments for structural elucidation. Please come visit us to discuss your challenges. |
  Wilks Enterprise, Inc Sandy Rintoul 831-338-7459 srintoul@wilksir.com Category: Best "Time Saving" Product/Method/Program The InfraSpec VFA-IR Spectrometer is a novel, patented mid-infrared spectrometer that utilizes a linear variable filter and a 128 pixel detector array. The net result is a compact, portable, easy-to-use spectrometer with no optical air path and no moving parts ideal for specific repetitive applications such as biodiesel in diesel, ethanol in gasoline or synthetic jet fuel in jet fuel. Mandates for minimum blends of ethanol in gasoline and biodiesel in diesel require terminal managers, distributors, fleet managers, regulators and tax enforcement agencies to be able to accurately measure the percent blend. The InfraSpec VFA-IR Spectrometer provides on-site blend measurements in under a minute and eliminates off-site test result delays. It weighs less than 5 lbs. and is operable from a 12 volt battery, making it ideal for tanker spot checks or use at fuel terminals and service stations. |
  Teledyne Tekmar Cindy Smith 513-229-7032 csmith@teledyne.com Category: Best "Time Saving" Product / Method/ Program The Atomx Automated VOC Sample Prep System combines an Autosampler and Purge and Trap into a single instrument for the analysis of VOCs in soils and waters. This is the first of its kind and only system that employs a unique methanol extraction automation feature for high level soils in accordance with USEPA Method 5035. Extractasol clean-up step (patent pending) in the Atomx reduces carryover or cross contamination normally associated with high-level water or soil analysis. Three new independent injection systems for internal standards, surrogates, and matrix spikes provide the ability to select variable volumes without generating waste. The Atomx features Tekmar's proven carousel drive capable of holding 80-vials for optimal throughput therefore reducing downtime. While priced competitively, this system offers unique features that cannot be found on other sample prep systems on the market today. |
  Company: Baytek International Contact: Jonathan Richter Phone: 832 247 8097 Email: Jonathan Richter Category: Best Time Saving Product Product Name: TurboTube HighwayTM Two years ago, Baytek International released TurboTubeTM, our patent pending vial distribution system, and won best product of show at the Gulf Coast Conference. This year, Baytek International is releasing TurboTube Highway a patent pending product that takes TurboTube to a new level. TurboTube is analogous to a “local area network”. TurboTube transports sample vials from a central autosampler to all the instruments in the lab, between the instruments, and back to the central lab autosampler for storage. The TurboTube Highway acts as a “wide-area network” by transporting samples up to 5,000 feet between local TurboTube networks. By utilizing the TurboTube Highway, the user may:
Come learn about this innovative new product and talk with Baytek International about how implementing it in your lab can bring a new level of efficiency to your workflow. |
  Julabo USA Inc Lance Cizek 800-458-5226 info@julabo.com Category: Best Software Advancement JULABO WirelessTEMP New from Julabo! Wireless Monitoring and Control of JULABO Instruments! JULABO announces their new "WirelessTEMP" product line providing wireless communication with all JULABO instruments with an RS232 interface. Now existing circulators, chillers, and temperature-control systems can be wirelessly controlled and monitored. WirelessTEMP provides numerous advantages such as aquiring access to temperature values from any workstation, cost reduction in running cable to your workstation, changing set point values easily, and capturing and transferring data. WirelessTEMP can be used with up to eight JULABO instruments at once monitoring through a PC or the Remote Control. Start-up becomes very simple because the device establishes the wireless connection automatically after switching on. The included configuration software even allows the establishment of complex networks with several mutually independent device groups. Therefore, undisturbed operation is possible even in neighboring laboratories. WirelessTEMP is also 21 CFR 11 compliant. More information can be found at www.julabo.com or info@julabo.com or call 800-458-5226 for your copy of the WirelessTEMP brochure. |
 Company: EMD Chemicals Inc. Contact: John D. Koterba Phone: 513-218-9032 Email: John.Koterba@emdchemicals.com Category: Best New Analytical Instrument EMD Chemicals in cooperation with it's parent company Merck KGaA will launch a harmonized global offering for Karl Fischer Reagents. These products will offer the same trusted performance EMD Chemical's customers have come to know. Combining a global packaging concept along with a uniform product numbering will allow our valued customers the ease and flexibility for Karl Fischer analysis. Please join us at the 2009 "New Product Showcase" to learn more about these exciting changes. |
  RHEOTEK USA, Inc Michael Fogarty 502.225.0093 Mike.Fogarty@rheotek.com Category: Best New Analytical Instrument The new patent pending JETVISC analyzer for aviation fuels is already proving itself in laboratories around the world. The RHEOTEK JETVISC fully automates the kinematic viscosity determination of aviation turbine fuels as specified in ASTM D1655 in full compliance with ASTM D445. The self contained analyzer includes a user friendly color touchscreen, sub-zero viscometer bath cell as well as internal cooling. With a temperature range of -40 to +40ºC, the instrument is suitable for measuring jet fuels, lubricants, brake fluid, transformer oils as well as diesels. Within the automatic analyzer, the JETVISC uses an ASTM Ubbelohde viscometer tube for flow time measurements. |
  GE Analytical Instruments Steve Austin 303-601-1840 steve.d.austin@ge.com Category: Best "Time Saving" Product/Method/Program New GE Autosampler Enhances InnovOx TOC Analyzer Productivity GE Analytical Instruments announces it new GE Autosampler for the Sievers InnovOx Laboratory Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Analyzer. Featuring a robust new design for handling high-volume laboratory applications, the GE Autosampler can run up to 135 samples tubes and up to 63 40-mL or 60-mL vials in one protocol. It has unparalleled needle-to-position accuracy, and comes with a needle rinse station. It is available with an optional, patent pending, stirring device to ensure homogeneous samples. The GE Autosampler easily integrates with the Sievers InnovOx Laboratory TOC Analyzer, which can handle the toughest TOC samples. To learn more about the GE Autosampler or the Sievers InnovOx Laboratory TOC Analyzer, visit www.geinstruments.com or contact geai@ge.com to schedule an on-site demo. |
  Agilent Technologies Alonzo Brown 302.633.8108 Alonzo_Brown@agilent.com Category: Best "Time Saving" Product/Method/Program The Agilent 7693A ALS ushers in a new era of productivity, performance, and flexibility. The 7693A builds on the proven Agilent autosampler technologies, which include: dual simultaneous injection; and patented fast injection. But the 7693A takes it one step further - adding basic sample preparation capabilities such as dilution, internal standard addition, heating, and more. So whether you want to automate sample injection or the entire sample preparation and injection process, the 7693A is the optimal solution for maximum productivity, performance, and flexibility within many labs. |
  COMPANY: Bruker CONTACT: Dick Merk PHONE: 978-439-9899 ext. 5426 EMAIL: dick.merk@brukeroptics.com CATEGORY: Best New Analytical Instrument Bruker Optics has developed FUELex, a Portable Fuel Analyzer designed for large volume Aviation and Diesel fuel customers. FUELex has been optimized to deliver qualification measurements of known fuels and to facilitate identification of unknown fuel samples within ASTM standards. The performance and operational ease of the Bruker FUELex will be especially of interest to fuel buyers, fuel officers, fuel supply managers and fuel service providers. Operation of FUELex is fully automated to permit users with minimal training to measure the samples on site at fuel locations. Time consuming transportation of fuel samples to a laboratory test set-up is eliminated and multiple samples can be measured in very little time. Acquisition and analysis of a sample is completed in less than 1 second. The Bruker FUELex is designed as a very robust, repeatable and easy to manufacture test station with no moving parts and minimal field service required. Measurements are performed using a dip probe with easily attached standard cells that are used to calibrate the FUELex as necessary and to verify system operability. The FUELex is very portable, weighing less than 10 pounds and the 10-28 V DC operation allows most battery sources. The FUELex design enables multiple instruments to give the same results. Individual units are all bandwidth matched and slaved to a master instrument, assuring repeatable and reliable measurements each time. FUELex is extremely stable and permits operation across a wide temperature and environmental range. The system enclosure is NEMA4/IP65 compliant with 2GByte Storage (1 million stored analyses), and the FUELex is network ready. |
  Applied Rigaku Technologies Doug Keene 281-686-2370 doug.keene@rigaku.com Category: Best New Analytical Technique Applied Rigaku Technologies (Austin, Texas) introduces a new analytical technique for EDXRF analyzing wastewater samples to the PPB range utilizing Rigaku’s patented thin film disk UltraCarry®. The proprietary UltraCarry design consists of two sections: a central hydrophilic section surrounded by a hydrophobic ring. 200uL of aqueous sample is used to spot the central section. As the water dries, the outer hydrophobic ring causes the central section to dry in an even single layer, and the sample is ready for analysis. |
  Company: LEMIS USA, Inc. Contact: Neil Chambers Phone: 713-416-6049 E-mail: nchambers@lemis-process.com Category: Best New Analytical Instrument The NEW VDM-300 is a unique combination of Viscometer and Density meter. Resonance technology is based on the changes of frequency, amplitude and the phase of a sensitive element (resonant tube) in the measured liquid, allowing it to receive highly accurate dynamic viscosity and density measurements in seconds. VDM-300 measures simultaneously dynamic viscosity and real density, to calculate kinematic viscosity of the sample. Viscosity is a critical characteristic of large range of products, such as fuel and lubricating oils. |
