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the Restek Advantage
2007.01
IN THIS ISSUE
Editorial
Restek: A Company of Owners . . . . . . . . . . .2
Pharmaceutical
New pHidelity™
pH-Stable HPLC Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Foods, Flavors & Fragrances
Simplified LC/MS/MS Analysis of
Fluoroquinolones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Monitor Antioxidants in Tea Extract . . . . . . 8
Environmental
Superior Chromatography for
Semivolatile Organics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8-Minute Dual Column Analysis
of Organochlorine Pesticides . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Organochlorine Pesticide
Reference Mixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Clinical/Forensics
Analyze and Confirm
Cannabinoids by LC/MS/MS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Air Sampling
Sampling Volatile Organic
Compounds in Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Sampling Preparation
Faster Extraction and Cleanup
of Pesticide Residue Samples . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Resprep™ Cell Parts and Tools for
ASE® Extraction Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Restek Performance Coatings
Extend Process Component Lifetime
and Enhance Durability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Chemical/Petrochemical
Resolving Aromatics in Spark
Ignition Fuels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Separate Argon from Oxygen
Above Ambient Temperatures . . . . . . . . . . 23
Biodiesel Analysis by
European Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
GC Accessories
Cool Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Supplies for Agilent
Instrument Injection Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
HPLC Accessories
Genuine Restek Replacement Parts
for Agilent HPLC Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
HPLC Mobile Phase Accessories . . . . . . . . . 29
General Information
Using Micropacked Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Twenty-one years ago, I had a vision of creating a company where employees
would enjoy coming to work as much as going home. Everyone kept telling me
that we couldn’t keep alive the Restek vision of being a great place to work as we
got bigger, but I’ve always been too stubborn to agree. Today, more than 250
employee-owners and our families work, play, and celebrate milestones in our
state-of-the-art facility in Bellefonte, in our new research facility in California,
and in our subsidiary locations in England, France, Germany, and Ireland. And,
in keeping with my vision, Restek is celebrating its twenty-first year in business by being selected
as one of Pennsylvania’s Top 100 Places To Work – for the third time!! We understand that our
customers’ happiness and our own are tightly intertwined – we care about the products we make,
and the Plus 1 service we provide, because your best interests also are ours.
Plus 1 Service, Innovation, and Execution (PIE®) have been, and continue to be, the keys to our
success, but another vital component to our success is that Restek employees have a positive
vision of their future. Why? Because as the founder and controlling shareholder, I have set in
motion a plan to sell the company to the employees, providing them the opportunity to chart
their own future and continue the tradition of our customer-first culture.
Friends of mine who started companies, including Walt Jennings of J&W, and Nick Pelick and
Walt Supina of Supelco, had a significant impact on my vision for Restek. These individuals all
expressed regret once their exciting, entrepreneurial companies were sold. Each watched as the
cultures they so carefully assembled began to change, and employees lost that “enjoy coming to
work” feeling. I have come to believe that success is not measured by the price for which you can
sell a company, but by the way the company prospers under the next generation of leadership. In
2005, I turned over the reins of Restek to Don McCandless, who took over as Head Coach and in
the supporting role of mentoring and teaching the next generation of leadership. Now, we are
fully engaged in the process of executing an employee stock ownership plan for selling the com-
pany to those whose labors have had a major role in building it. As we advance toward total
employee ownership, our people and our products are positioning Restek to meet new challenges
and opportunities, with even better service to our customers and community, and it is no exag-
geration to say that Restekians truly do enjoy their work.
Restek will continue to be successful because our employees are excited that their future is in their
own hands. Customers will continue to benefit because Restek will remain independent – able to
work with all of the instrument companies – and will continue to create top quality products for all
of will be able to continue responding to all the ideas that pour in from customers around
the world, telling us what products and services they need to make their lives easier in the lab.
Our company of owners will control their own destiny. I will be smiling from ear to ear when I
see how employee ownership works to create a company in which employees still enjoy coming
to work as much as going home! Isn’t it fun to do business with employee-owners who love com-
ing to work every day?
Restek: A Company of Owners
by Paul Silvis, Restek Founder & former Head Coach