SensIR Technologies' and Perkin Elmer form Strategic Partnership

13-07-2001: SensIR Technologies, a leading innovator of FT-IR spectroscopic instrumentation and Perkin Elmer Instruments, a world leader in scientific instrumentation and software, today announced an agreement to form a strategic partnership

SensIR’s new TravelIR, the world’s first portable spectroscopic analyzer, will be the first new product brought to market under the new partnership. By creating a truly portable system, analysis can take place at the sample site allowing faster decisions based upon reliable results. Instead of waiting while samples are sent to a laboratory for analysis, fact based decisions can be made right where the samples are taken. In the areas of forensic science, environmental management, and as both an incoming materials and final product quality control inspection tool, TravelIR brings more than just analysis to the field site. The development of application specific software packages that are custom designed for the application allow non-technical personnel to use the instrument to verify a material or substance with little technical training.

According to Bob Sebes, President/CEO of SensIR Technologies, “ This strategic partnership with Perkin Elmer Instruments allows us to penetrate a variety of markets faster by using the worldwide sales organization, marketing, and business acumen of a recognized world leader. We are proud to be able to partner with such a dynamic innovator, and look forward to a long and successful relationship. From government to private industry, Perkin Elmer Instruments is well known and respected as a market innovator.”

“The partnership with SensIR Technologies dramatically broadens our capabilities in portable instrumentation,” according to Michael H. Elliot, vice president and general manager for the pharmaceutical and food analysis business units at Perkin Elmer Instruments. “We believe that the trend towards portable instrumentation is driven by the need for immediate information at the production site. TravelIR brings FT-IR analysis right to our customers sample site. We are very excited about this new product and its ability to provide a solution for Perkin Elmer’s customers.”