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Who are the employees of Teledyne Tekmar/ Teledyne Leeman Labs - Joe Barta

Posted by Teledyne Tekmar on Wed, Nov 02, 2022 @ 10:48 AM

With today’s blog, let’s get to know the employees of Teledyne Tekmar/Leeman Labs. The next person I I would like to introduce to you is Joe Barta.

Joe is a Field Service Engineer for Teledyne Tekmar based out of Chicago. He services Tekmar VOC and TOC products, as well as Leeman ICP and mercury analyzers. Besides servicing instruments, he has also trained the service engineers for our international distributors in Europe, Asia, and Central and South America. Joe will be starting his 20th year at Tekmar at the end of January 2023.

Let’s ask Joe some questions to get to know him better.

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Who are the employees of Teledyne Tekmar/ Teledyne Leeman Labs - Susan Scheib

Posted by Teledyne Tekmar on Thu, Oct 13, 2022 @ 08:57 AM

With today’s blog, let’s get to know the employees of Teledyne Tekmar/Leeman Labs. The next person I I would like to introduce to you is Susan Scheib.

Susan Scheib wears many hats at Teledyne. Her primary focus is Service Agreement Manager for TACS and Depot Repair Manager for Teledyne Hastings. She is also involved as backup Import/Export Administrator for Teledyne Tekmar/Leeman Labs. She has been with Teledyne Tekmar for 22 years and began her full-time career as a Technical Support Specialist. Susan is well versed in all the products that Teledyne Tekmar/Leeman Labs manufactures and has quickly learned the Teledyne Hastings products in her new role there.

 

Let’s ask Susan some questions to get to know them better.

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Who are the employees of Teledyne Tekmar/ Teledyne Leeman Labs - Amy Nutter

Posted by Teledyne Tekmar on Mon, Aug 15, 2022 @ 12:38 PM

With today’s blog, let’s get to know the employees of Teledyne Tekmar. The next person I would like to introduce you to is Amy Nutter.

Amy is the VOC Technical Product Specialist at Teledyne Tekmar. Currently, she is focused on fostering relationships with OEM partners by developing applications and webinars for the Purge and Trap product line. She also provides customer application support. Amy has been with Teledyne Tekmar for 5 years. She was previously the VOC Applications Chemist for the Purge and Trap product line.

Let’s ask Amy some questions to get to know her better.

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Tags: Teledyne Tekmar, Teledyne Leeman Labs

Who are the employees of Teledyne Tekmar/ Teledyne Leeman Labs

Posted by Teledyne Tekmar on Thu, Jun 02, 2022 @ 12:37 PM

With today’s blog, I thought maybe we could go down another direction and get to know the employees of Teledyne Tekmar/Leeman Labs. The first person I would like to introduce you to is Tyler Trent.

Tyler is the Elemental Product Marketing Manager for Teledyne Tekmar and Leeman Labs. He oversees the TOC, ICP and Hg product lines. Tyler is entering his 12th year at Teledyne. Over the 12 years he has cover a wide range of roles.

Tyler was hired right out of college and has held the following positions: Application Chemist, Application Sales Specialist, Europe Middle East, and Africa Sales Manager and now his most recent role of Elemental Product Marketing Manager.

Let’s ask Tyler some questions to get to know him better.

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Tags: Teledyne Tekmar, Teledyne Leeman Labs

Headspace Analysis for Benzene in Beverages

Posted by Teledyne Tekmar on Mon, Sep 16, 2013 @ 12:55 PM

The battle of the headspace Titans continues in the Teledyne Tekmar applications lab.  This time, the sample arena has moved to environmental compounds in beverages.  Beverages formulated with sodium or potassium benzoate and ascorbic acid may form benzene at part per billion levels (ppb).  The lowest current regulation found in the international water regulations for benzene is 1 ppb.

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Tags: Headspace, HT3, Versa, Benzene, Beverage Analysis

The Importance of Changing the Water Supply in the Torch and Fusion TOC Analyzers

Posted by Teledyne Tekmar on Fri, Aug 16, 2013 @ 04:43 PM

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Tags: TOC, Total Organic Carbon, Teledyne Tekmar

Total Solution for Food and Environmental Laboratory Testing

Posted by Teledyne Tekmar on Mon, Jun 03, 2013 @ 09:24 PM

Over the past few months, Ab Sciex hosted a technical talk with invited guest from Teledyne Tekmar, Phenomenex, and Gerstel on driving innovation, “Better Ideas for the Modern Food and Environmental Testing Laboratory”. The goal of this workshop was to show that collectively these companies could create a total solution for food and environmental laboratory testing.  It, also, served as a forum to talk about pertinent issues and challenges in regards to food testing.  Teledyne Tekmar was privileged to introduce the new AutoMate-Q40 a revolutionary system specifically designed and optimized to automate the QuEChERS sample preparation workflow. The AutoMate-Q40 system automates the following sampler preparation functions:

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Tags: Teledyne Tekmar, Food Testing Laboratory, food testing, pesticide analysis, pesticide, QuEChERS, Environmental Testing Laboratory, AutoMate, food extracts, extractions, pesticides, residue

Excited about Headspace Autosamplers

Posted by Teledyne Tekmar on Mon, May 13, 2013 @ 04:54 PM

Excitement abounds in the Teledyne Tekmar labs as the Versa headspace autosampler continues to meet the challenges of an ever-changing environmental science world. Its big brother, the HT3, started this excitement when it successfully met the challenge to detect low levels of 1,4-dioxane, bromoform, acrylonitrile and vinyl chloride in water following new environmental guidance from Korea and the Asian market.

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Tags: VOC, Teledyne Tekmar, Volatile Organic Compounds, Analytical Instrumentation, Autosampler, Analyzer, Headspace, HT3, Versa, 1 4-dioxane, bromoform, acrylonitrile, vinyl chloride, VPH

Analytical Chemical Methods Technical Workshop on Hydraulic Fracturing

Posted by Teledyne Tekmar on Sat, Apr 13, 2013 @ 04:51 PM

The US EPA hosted a technical workshop on analytical chemical methods for hydraulic fracturing on February 25th in Research Triangle Park, NC. The goal of these workshops is to gather together stakeholders, technical experts, and EPA representatives to get updates on the progress of the EPA’s testing with regards to hydraulic fracturing. It also serves as a forum to discuss best testing practices and methodologies for this area. Teledyne Tekmar was privileged to participate as a speaker and participant in the round table panel discussions that coincided with the workshop.

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Tags: VOC, Teledyne Tekmar, Sample Preparation, Volatile Organic Compounds, drinking water, chromatography, Hydraulic Fracturing, Fracking, Analytical Instrumentation, Concentrator, Autosampler, Analyzer

Calibration by Dilution

Posted by Teledyne Tekmar on Sun, Jan 13, 2013 @ 04:49 PM

Automated sample preparation is built upon making instruments easier to use, faster, and more efficient. More recent features to purge and trap systems like mass flow controllers and variable volume standard addition, give more method flexibility than legacy products. The 27 mL syringe on our Atomx VOC sample prep system allows for dilution of high level samples as well as automated methanol extractions.

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Tags: VOC, Teledyne Tekmar, GRO, Gasoline Range Organics, Sample Preparation, Volatile Organic Compounds

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