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2025 - Diamond Sponsor - Chemplex Industries Inc.

Celebrating 10 Years as our Diamond Sponsor
Chemplex Industries Inc - A leading global provider of Sample Preparation Products. Chemplex® is the manufacturer of over 40 different sizes and styles of sample cups along with thin-film sample supports, including our exclusive SpectroMembrane® thin-film carrier frames with a variety of thin-film material such as Etnom®, Prolene®, Mylar® and more, in a range of thicknesses. Their line of Calibration and Check standards will enable to you routinely maintain consistent results. Our G and E Series Automated Fluxers consistently prepare fused beads for XRF and solutions for ICP, AA analysis. High quality platinum ware is available for any Fluxer including our PREP program to replace unusable platinum ware with new ones at a fraction of the cost. A line of grinders and pellet presses are available to consistently prepare solid samples for any application.

2025 - Platinum Sponsor - Premier Labs

Premier Labs is a Manufacturer and distributor of XRF Sample Preparation Consumables, equipment, and platinum labware.

2025 New Product Showcase Winner

Rigaku
Best New Analytical Technique
Oil Solidification Technique

2024 - Presenter of the Year

James Pachlhofer, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Technical Sales Specialist

James is truly an industry veteran with over 40 years direct experience. Starting in the lab when the US was landing men on the moon at Johnson Space Center, Houston, he has seen the tremendous evolution of analytical instrumentation over the years. Most of his commercial experience has been involved with Gas Chromatography, first with Varian instruments as a sales professional. He then moved into marketing and product management and eventually the Manager of the Custom Solutions Team. After Agilent acquired Varian, James then moved to Bruker Daltonics with the Varian GC products as a sales and technical support manager. James moved to Thermo Fisher in 2015 as a Business Development Specialist and his team developed a complete portfolio of GC based analyzers. As the business grew significantly, Thermo Fisher recently moved James into a new position as a Technical Sales Specialist focused on supporting Thermo Fisher Account Managers and their customers utilizing GC and GCMS products. James has a Batchelor of Science in Biochemistry and Biophysics from the University of Houston and lives in the Burnet, TX area.

2024 - New Product Showcase Winner

CE Elantech
Best New Analytical Instrument
GasSite CompactGC 4.0

2023 - Presenter of the Year

Tore Fossum, Tor Systems

Tore Fossum began titration at Saybolt in New Orleans, and after sold automatic titrators for Mettler for many years, including the DL40, DL25, DL70, T90 and T9. He has trained upwards of 5,000 people on titrimetric analysis techniques, and is today supporting technology companies in improving their analytical capabilities.