New CheckPoint TOC Sensor from GE Water & Process Technologies Wins Gold IBO Award for Portable Instrument Design

PharmaManufacturing.com
08/27/2008

GE Water & Process Technologies, Analytical Instruments, a division of General Electric Company, is pleased to announce that its CheckPoint Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Sensor has received the top IBO Portable Instrument Design Award for 2008.   This is the company’s second gold, since its Sievers 900 Portable TOC Analyzer won the same top IBO Portable Instruments Design Award in 2005.

IBO (Instrument Business Outlook) is a leading business newsletter that covers the entire multi-billion dollar analytical instrument industry.  The IBO Design Awards, now in their 15th year, recognize excellence in the industrial design of analytical instruments, portable analytical instruments and laboratory equipment. The winners of the 2008 Awards demonstrate how industrial design can improve a product’s performance and the end-user’s experience. Award criteria includes aesthetics, functionality and features, and IBO considers hundreds of new products from every market and application served by analytical instruments.

 “CheckPoint’s unique design offers pharmaceutical, semiconductor, and power industries ultra-portability and convenience for diagnostics applications,” said Dr. Michael W. Routh, General Manager, GE Analytical Instruments.  “Its performance, combined with light weight, small footprint, battery operation, fast analysis time, and affordability are unmatched in the marketplace.”