Second international award for innovation for the development of an ultrasonic spectrometer
Ultrasonic Scientific has received a second international accolade in the four months since the launch of its new instrument.
The company has just heard from the USA that it has been selected as the developer of one of this year's R and D Top 100 award-winning technologies.
100 products are selected each year, and Ultrasonic Scientific has just secured the vote in 2002 for its new HR-US ultrasonic spectrometer.
This follows closely on from the news in March that this Irish company received the prestigious Silver Award for best new product launched at Pittcon in New Orleans, and was identified by SDI as the product most likely to be a commercial success.
The HR-US is an ultrasonic spectrometer which uses high-frequency acoustical waves (similar to those used by dolphins for communications and bats for navigation) to analyse samples.
Due to the success of the technology, the company has doubled its workforce this year alone.
For 39 years, the R and D 100 Awards programme has recognised the developers of the top 100 technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year.
Breda O'Driscoll, managing director of Ultrasonic Scientific, explains "Ultrasonic Scientific is a really exciting new company - the HR US family of ultrasonic spectrometers is our first product introduction in a planned five year release schedule.
It is gratifying that the first of these many exciting new innovations, the HR-US 101, has received such acclaim.
The R and D Top 100 Awards is international recognition of the excellence of ultrasound as a generic analytical technique and Ultrasonic Scientific's role at the forefront of this innovative technology." Benefits of ultrasonic analysis include the ability to analyse transparent, translucent and opaque samples.
This is a non-destructive/non-invasive technique, which is very fast, requires minimum sample preparation and minimum instrument calibration.
Using HR-US technology, customers can analyse intermolecular forces, sample structures, composition, phase transition etc over a broad dynamic range of diluted and concentrated samples, a variety of samples and processes and reactions.
