The Chicago Tribune

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. (September 5, 2008) – Spectra Analysis, a leading provider of hyphenated HPLC and GC / FTIR detection, announced today that R&D Magazine has selected the DiscovIR-LC™ for its prestigious 2008 R&D 100 Award. The DiscovIR-LC is a breakthrough, hyphenated FTIR detector technology for HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography).

Dubbed “the Oscars of Invention” by The Chicago Tribune, the winning of an R&D 100 Award “provides a mark of excellence known to industry, government, and academia as testimony that the product is one of the most pioneering ideas of the year,” according to Tim Studt, editor-in-chief of R&D Magazine.