It's always great when someone comes up to your booth at an event like Pittcon and says they've been using your product successfully for 15 years - it's even better when that person is Nancy Ludwigsen, Forensics Specialist with the Sarasota Sheriff's Office.
Nancy was kind enough to talk with us about her work and some of the features she likes about our Thin Layer Chromatography plates.
While at Pittcon 2010, we started talking with the good people at Dino-Lite and their Digital Microscopes. Joe at Dino-Lite said, "Let's see exactly how thin your Thin Layer Chromatography plates are." That's what led to this video (to really enjoy it, try going to full screen mode):
We made a lot of new friends at Pittcon 2010 - and 
strengthened our bond with older friends - through our new Pokens!
Here's a look at just some of our friends who came to our booth for the big Poken Party!
Fred Rabel, Ph.D., teaches and consults on chemical projects around the world. While at Pittcon 2010 in Orlando, he was kind enough to talk with us about his experiences and observations in the world of chromatography.
UPDATE: We have an Evening location! - see below!
Pittcon 2009 featured the first ever Pittcon T
weet-Up - a great meeting of people with at least two things in common - science and social media.
We're doing it again this year! Twice!
Pittcon 2010 Tweet-Up #1
WHERE: Hall C at the Convention Center - meet in front of FedEx/Kinkos
WHEN: Tuesday, March 2, 10:00 AM
Pittcon 2010 Tweet-Up #2 - some have suggested we set up a second Tweet Up in the evening - so we're going to shoot for another meeting at 10:00 Tuesday evening - and we now have a location thanks to a great suggestion from @GCMSMS.
Pittcon Tweet Up #2
WHERE: Bahama Breeze - 8849 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32819
WHEN: Tuesday, March 2 - 10:00 PM
Now, we need your participation - if you plan on posting twitter updates from Pittcon - please post your twitter name here - and please use the #Pittcon hashtag.
We're pretty excited about this - if you haven't heard of Poken, go here for a quick explanation.
While Poken does a great job with offering some really fun and interesting designs, we wanted something that would be perfect for the science community, so our brilliant designer, Micky Jones, put this together:
Stop by Booth 1713 at Pittcon to see these guys in action!
We've always been a Delaware-based company, we love being a Delaware-based company. We enjoy our friends and neighbors, we like being located so close to places like Baltimore, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Princeton, and New York.
But, we have to admit, heading to Orlan
do, Florida for Pittcon is starting to really look good to us right about now.
Come on by Booth 1713 at the Orange County Convention Center March 1 - 4 and say, "Hi" - we won't be wearing winter coats then.
We enjoy every opportunity to get together with our friends, our customers, our suppliers, well, everybody - which means we love going to Pittcon!
So, we recently invited some friends together for a quick photo
shoot (expect to see some really great photos at Pittcon) - and have our General Manager, Steven Miles, offer a video invitation for people to see us at Booth 1713 (that's coming soon, too).
Now, I don't think we've ever been seen as a company that takes itself too seriously, so we decided to show you a little "behind the scenes" look at the shoot that day (PLEASE NOTE: No HPLC Columns were damaged in the shooting of this video):
Karen Brinker and Leslie Allshouse graciously allowed us to join them recently as they led their University of Delaware
Clinical Physiological Chemistry II class through a drug testing procedure using Thin Layer Chromatography.
Unfortunately, our sound engineer was off his game that day - the background noise you hear in the video is blow driers being used to dry the TLC plates.
Many thanks to Karen and Leslie for letting us be a part of the class!
The Delaware Business Ledger's January issue features a
great article on Social Media in business, and includes references to Analtech, AstraZeneca, and DuPont:
It is already apparent that Delaware may be ahead of the curve, based on the widespread use of social networking tools, with large companies such as DuPont, ING Direct and AstraZeneca having a Twitter presence. State government is also on board with various agencies using Twitter.
Championing the initiative is Ken Grant... He now works as a marketing director for Analtech, based near Newark.
In 2008, he helped produce a short web-based movie for the company. Using a touch of comedy, it featured an actress playing Ana L'tech. It used humor to promote the company's Thin Layer Chromatography laboratory products to a worldwide audience. It earned Grant and Anltech a lot press coverage, locally, nationally and even overseas.
Click Here to read the complete article.