Worldwide Solutions - February 2008 - (Page 14) GERSTEL Solutions Worldwide Report Guests came from around the world to congratulate and celebrate GERSTEL celebrates 40th anniversary with grand opening of new company headquarters GERSTEL now resides in new headquarters at 1 Eberhard-Gerstel-Platz in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, the town where the company was founded 40 years ago. The inauguration took place in early October, 2007, exactly 40 years after the company was founded. 140 employees as well as 150 invited guests from all over the world took part in the celebrations. everal international dignitaries from the world of analytical chemistry took the time to honor GERSTEL in speeches, among them Shanya Kane, Vice President and General Manager of the GC business for Agilent Technologies, Heiner Scherrer, Owner and General Manager of CTC Analytics AG, a leading producer of GC- and LC autosamplers world-wide, the internationally renowned chromatography expert Professor Pat Sandra from the Research Institute for Chromatography (RIC) as well as Peter Dawes, owner and president of SGE Analytical. The Analytical Chemistry Section of the Society of German Chemists was represented by Professor Werner Engewald from the University of Leipzig. The audience that had gathered in front of the stage in the entrance hall of the new GERSTEL headquarters had travelled far to take part in the festivities, some coming literally from the other side of the planet. The occasion was the in- S Pat Sandra, Research Institute for Chromatography (RIC) auguration of the new headquarters coinciding with the 40th anniversary of GERSTEL. Eberhard G. Gerstel, Holger Gerstel and Ralf Bremer, managing directors of GERSTEL, took the audience through a program highlighting the milestones of the company from its humble beginnings in a remodelled garage to the impressive new buildings encompassing almost 50,000 square feet. Among the speakers, Professor Pat Sandra, internationally renowned chromatography expert from the Research Institute for Chromatography in Kortrijk, Belgium stressed the impressive de-
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