Waters takes gold

Waters has won the 2012 Pittcon Editors’ Gold Award for its Acquity UPC2 system. The award recognizes the best new product at the conference.

The Acquity UPC2 system is said to expand the boundaries of reversed-phase liquid and gas chromatography and offers a replacement option for normal-phase chromatography.

Art Caputo, president of the Waters division, commented, “On behalf of all Waters employees worldwide, we thank the Pittcon Editors for recognizing the Acquity UPC2 system and its promise as a new category of separation science. In 2004, the Pittcon Editors selected the Acquity ultra performance LC (UPLC) to receive the gold award for best in show. Since then, thousands of Acquity UPLC systems have been adopted by leading laboratories around the world changing the landscape and impact of chromatography. We believe that Acquity ultra performance convergence chromatography holds that same potential by bridging the gap between LC and GC technologies.”