SGE Analytical Science Pty Ltd. wins 2005 Governor of Victoria Export Awards
SGE Analytical Science, until recently SGE International is a significant global supplier of chromatography components used in environmental monitoring, food, pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology and many other areas where materials need to be analysed for their molecular constituents.
SGE with a worldwide base and a sales and distribution network involving over 200 business partners was successful in winning the title of Victoria’s Exporter of the Year plus the Large Advanced Manufacturer Award in the 2005 Governor of Victoria Export Awards.
Both Awards were significant acknowledgements of the success of an Australian company where export sales represent about 97 percent of its total annual turnover.
The Governor of Victoria Export Awards also accredited SGE International as a Finalist in the Austrade Export Awards.
With these successes to its credit SGE International has not been resting on its oars.
The company has recently been awarded a Commercial Ready Grant from the Australian Government towards a new $A5 million project to advance the emerging technologies for future analytical systems whose operating mode will be in the micro- and nano- scale.
The Australian Government Grant will contribute up to half the project budget while the CSIRO and several other “high tech” Australian organisations are target partners.
At the recent 54th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectroscopy held in Seattle, Washington SGE’s research and executive team delivered a paper with the inspiring title of A New Class of Robust Sub-nanosecond TOF Detectors with High Dynamic Range.
Designated the new MagneTOF detector, in laymen’s terms it is a new mass spectroscopy detector with international patents pending, with its response times registered in pico- rather than nano-seconds.
To the uninitiated a pico is a millionth of a millionth of a second!
The MagneTOF represents more than four years of innovation and research, principally by scientists at SGE’s Sydney operations and particularly the use of super-computer modelling where the objective has been to create faster and faster detection response times.
The key use of the new faster detector will be in the life sciences.
Meanwhile SGE Analytical Science has been expanding its international network.
This includes opening an office in Shanghai to expand its presence in the fast-growing Chinese analytical market, together with new staff in Brazil and Italy to expand its presence in both local and regional market areas.
SGE has also earmarked the Russian and the former Soviet states for an expanded participation as their economies recover and develop, creating increased demand for higher standard analytical tools and equipment.
25-Aug-2006