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GE Sensing Validator® Wins Innovation Award At POWTECH/TechnoPharm 2007
Billerica, Mass – April 19, 2007. GE Sensing’s new Kaye
Validator® ITMS cleaning validation instrument was the winner
of a special Innovation Award at the POWTECH/TechnoPharm exhibition,
which took place in Nurenberg, Germany March 28-29, 2007. The award
was organized and sponsored by PROCESS, a leading German chemical
and pharmaceutical trade journal, and attracted more than 50 companies
in four categories. Entries were whittled down to 12 finalists, and
the Validator® won in the “Pharmaceutical Technology” category.
The Validator® ITMS is a portable at-line instrument, which can accelerate the cleaning validation process. It does so by employing ion trap mobility spectrometry (ITMS) rather than conventional high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and Total Organic Carbon (TOC). It can also analyze swab samples for the presence of small molecule API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient) residues and cleaning agents in roughly 1 minute. As a result, operators can assess system cleanliness at-line quickly and get production lines up and running sooner.
“Ion trap mobility spectrometry is an important technological innovation,” says Derek Brand, Global Product Manager at GE Sensing. “This prestigious Innovation Award demonstrates GE’s efforts to implement new technology, which is being recognized in the marketplace. ITMS’ ability to reduce the amount of downtime during manufacturing should allow significant gains in equipment utilization and productivity, leading to increased revenue and greater profit opportunities for our customers.”
To download the innovation award image, click here.
About GE
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About GE Sensing
GE Sensing is a world leader in advanced measurement and sensor-based technology solutions. GE Sensing designs and produces precision instruments and systems that measure temperature, pressure, liquid level, humidity, gas concentration, and flow rate for the most demanding customer applications. GE Sensing serves customers around the world in the aerospace, healthcare, transportation, process and industrial businesses.
Druck, General Eastern, Kaye, NovaSensor, Panametrics, Telaire, Thermometrics and Ruska are now part of one team, under one name: GE Sensing.
For more information, visit
http://www.gesensing.com.
Media Contact
Lindsay Theile
GE Sensing
+1 978 437 1410
Email: lindsay.theile@ge.com
Technical Contact
Derek Brand
GE Sensing
+1 347 407 0694
Email: derek.brand@ge.com
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