Katie Morhen, Lab Innovations Event Manager and Martyn Fordham, Managing Director at Asynt
Asynt won this year’s Lions’ Lair competition, which took place at Lab Innovations on Wednesday 5 November. The company fought off competition from three other exhibitors all pitching their most innovative products to an expert panel in order to be voted best in show.
The panel of Lions included Phillip Broadwith, Business Editor of Chemistry World, Kasia Wincoirek, Laboratory Manager at DNA Electronics, Phil Prime, Managing Editor at Laboratory News and Yahya Akudi, QC Lab Manager at Nuarfarm Ltd.
Asynt's winning product, PressureSyn, is a high pressure reactor designed to work on any magnetic hotplate stirrer. The in-built safety features comprise of a double pressure relief system, including bursting disk and pressure relief valve. The 125 ml reactors are certificated and rated to a maximum pressure of 100bar and temperature of 200C.
Martyn Fordham, Managing Director at Asynt said: “It is always an honour to be recognised by your peers. We didn’t achieve this alone, our innovation was created in conjunction with the University of Nottingham, leading to a winning combination. Our PressureSyn is a simple product that helps ensure a safe environment for those working within chemistry research labs. We are certainly thrilled to have won. ”
The three other companies who took part in the competition included Cleaver Scientific, Spex Certiprep and Metrohm.
The next Lab Innovations will be taking place at Birmingham’s NEC on 4 & 5 November 2015.