ACHEMA 2015 Innovation Award for the apyron Raman Microscope

18 Jun 2015
Lois Manton-O'Byrne
Executive Editor

WITec’s fully-automated Raman Imaging system apyron won the first prize at the Achema 2015 Innovation Awards in the category of Laboratory and Analytical Technologies. The new Raman system was chosen as the top innovation from among 18 applicants in this category.

The Innovation Awards were bestowed for the 7th time by the renowned industry experts and technical editors of: Process, Process Worldwide, PharmaTec, Process China, Process India and Laborpraxis. This year some 100 companies applied to be considered for the awards for the most innovative devices, systems and processes featured at the exhibition. Achema, in Frankfurt (Germany) is the world’s largest trade show for the chemical engineering and process industry. More than 3800 exhibitors from 54 countries expect more than 150.000 visitors.

"Winning the Achema 2015 Innovation Award is another welcome recognition of WITec’s enormous innovative strength”, says Dr. Joachim Koenen, WITec CEO.

The apyron microscope was developed to bring an exceptional user-friendliness to the ultimate capability in Raman Imaging. With the apyron’s configurable architecture, the steps from experimental conceptualization to novel data acquisition have become automated, consolidated and software-controlled.

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