BRIMROSE

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Baltimore, MD – March 1, 2002 – The Brimrose Corporation will be launching three new products at Pittcon 2002 in New Orleans on March 18-22. Attended by more than 30,000 conferees from over 120 countries, Pittcon 2002 is the premier event of the year to showcase new analytical instrumentation.

Adding to the successful Luminar-series product family, Brimrose will be introducing the following new miniaturized NIR spectrometers:

 

Luminar 3020 Thin Film Analyzer Luminar 3075 Blend Control Analyzer Luminar 3077 Tablet Analyzer

These new fast-responding and rugged spectrometers will offer greater versatility in solving the on-line analytical and process control needs of manufacturers in the pharmaceutical, food & beverage, and polymer markets.

Use of Brimrose’s AOTF (Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter) analytical technique within the NIR (Near-infrared) spectrum allows for characterization and monitoring of chemical species and physical/mechanical properties of a wide range of applications to include liquids, slurries, powders and solid products.

“The impact of Brimrose’s AOTF-NIR technology on solving today's on-line analytical needs and process control problems is powerful. Now with the introduction of our miniaturized products – the versatility grows”, says Ron Rosemeier, President of the Brimrose Corporation. “For example, in the pharmaceutical industry, our miniaturized spectrometers equipped with battery-pack and RF transmitter allows for mounting directly on a rotating batch blender. Now our customers can achieve great benefits with wireless, real-time uniformity and content control taking them to where no process analyzer has gone before.”

Brimrose will be showcasing these new products in Booth #3225 of the Pittcon 2002 Exhibition Hall located at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA. Brimrose will also be presenting two papers and conducting a poster session as part of PittCon 2002’s Technical Program as shown below:

• March 18 – Symposium - Pharmaceutical: Problem Solving I (Session 26) – Real Time Product and Process Control in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing by Using AOTF-NIR Technology – Dr. Gabriel Levin, 10:25 – 10:45 am.
• March 18 – Poster Session - Pharmaceuticals (Session 205) – Process Control of Pharmaceutical Products Using AOTF-NIR – Igor Nazarov, 2:30 - 4:30 pm.
• March 21 – Symposium - Near Infrared II (Session 176) – AOTF-NIR Technology as Used in the Agricultural Industry – Dr. Gabriel Levin, 4:45 – 5:05 pm.

About Brimrose:

Brimrose is a world leader and premier manufacturer in providing Electro-Optic technology that meet the most demanding commercial and military DOD specifications. Featuring R&D activities in all major photonic applications, Brimrose provides solutions to the process industries and telecommunications sectors to include diagnostic equipment for testing fiber-optic networks.

The exclusive robust AOTF-NIR process analyzers serve the chemical, petrochemical, food & beverage, pulp & paper, and pharmaceutical industries offering laboratory, on-line, and at-line NIR solutions to leading manufacturers.

The NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Spaceflight Center in Pasadena, CA chose Brimrose to provide miniature AOTF-NIR spectrometers as part of the future Mars ROVER missions designed to explore the planet’s extreme environmental conditions.
 

For more information about Brimrose, please visit www.brimrose.com <http://www.brimrose.com/> or call by phone at (410) 472-7070.