Westbrook, Maine (July 1, 2015) – Artel, the leader
in liquid handling quality assurance, will hold its popular Pipetting
Challenge again this year in the company’s booth – #2453 – at the AACC Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo.
The competition, held annually since 1997, helps professionals test and
improve their critical pipetting skills while competing for daily
prizes including medals, new pipettes and the grand prize of an iPad
mini. Four manufacturers are providing pipettes for the event:
Eppendorf, Gilson, Hamilton and Sartorius.
The Artel Pipetting Challenge, which the company holds at conferences and events throughout the year, uses the Artel PCS® Pipette
Calibration System to test participants’ precision. The system gives a
percent coefficient of variation (CV) score on the pipetting of five
replicates. Artel personnel provide pipetting technique tips from the
company’s certification program to help each contestant improve
performance.
“The competition actually makes you think about how technique with
manual pipettes varies depending on the user,” said Alison Bua-Demus,
marketing specialist at Gilson. “The program supports our own emphasis on accuracy and reproducible results.”
Daniela Marino, product manager at Eppendorf North America, added, “The Artel Pipetting Challenge is an exciting way to keep lab professionals’ pipette accuracy in check.”
“We are proud that several past winners were using our Softgrip* Pipettes,” commented Jason March, director of marketing for Hamilton Company. “This great event really accents the comfort and quality in our pipettes.”
Melissa Winters, field marketing manager at Sartorius
stated, “Sartorius is excited to participate in this year’s Artel
Pipetting Challenge. It gives attendees who might not be using our
pipettes the opportunity to evaluate their ergonomics and precision.”
“Our entire company and the products we deliver are focused on
enabling the highest quality liquid handling,” explained A. Bjoern
Carle, product manager at Artel. “The Pipetting Challenge enables
participants to see and improve their own performance precision, while
having fun at the same time. Earning a medal validates the skill needed
for the life-saving work laboratory scientists perform every day.
Clinicians are already talking about the upcoming challenge on social
media.”
Follow the Artel Pipetting Challenge on Facebook (artelpipettingchallenge) or on Twitter (@Artel_usa)
About Artel
Laboratories worldwide depend upon Artel technology and expertise to
standardize and optimize their liquid handling instruments and
processes, and to give them total confidence in their results. Since
1982, Artel has been solving liquid handling quality, productivity and
compliance challenges in pharmaceutical and biotechnology research,
regulatory bodies, academia, clinical diagnostics, forensics, public
health, agbio, food quality and safety and environmental testing.
Artel provides quality assurance systems and a broad and fully
customizable range of support, training and consultation services for
laboratories using automated liquid handling instrumentation and manual
pipettes. For more information visit www.artel-usa.com.