Riverview, FL February 2009

Both organizations have demonstrated their commitment to serving the needs of ethanol and biodiesel laboratories with their own portfolios of complementary instruments, reagents and technical support. This cooperative now offers these labs and, most importantly, those performing analytical testing, the most comprehensive solutions available—with the singular goal of helping them conform to ASTM test requirements.

Tom Ronaldi, PAC Industrial Segment VP, states, “This is the first alliance of its kind to offer a suite of solutions for the biofuels industry—one that can be scaled and modified as needs change.” Gene Platter, Metrohm USA President & CEO, states, “We embraced this partnership with PAC because it enhances our systems and applications support solutions which, in turn, allows us to reach customers faster and serve them even better.” For more information on each company’s portfolio of products and services, visit www.paclp.com and www.metrohmusa.com. PAC is a global company that provides a complete range of instruments, services and consumables—from mobile analysis to high-end advanced testing—to biofuels laboratories worldwide. In cooperation with various standards and bodies throughout the world, they offer solutions to the most critical analytical and quality control challenges facing today’s laboratory and process manufacturing environments. These include analysis for: nitrogen, sulfur, liquid and gas chromatography; distillation, viscosity, volatility, cold flow, and fuel.

Metrohm USA, Inc., formerly Brinkmann Instruments and Metrohm-Peak in the US, has been and continues to be a premier instrument and technical support provider to a variety of industries—particularly biofuels. They boast a 60+ year history of product and technical expertise, a 70+ roster of field specialists to cover the United States and Canada, and 4 fully functional applications labs—all to provide customers with the best systems and support for their applications. Featured products include: titration and automated analysis systems; customizable process analyzers; ion chromatography systems; pH/ion meters and electrodes; as well as instruments for voltammetry measurements and oxidative stability testing.