SYFT Technologies Wins Key Domestic Order

JOINT PRESS RELEASE: Syft Technologies and AgResearch

SYFT Technologies Wins Key Domestic Order

Media release, 20-April-07, Syft Technologies Ltd and AgResearch, Christchurch, New Zealand:

AgResearch has purchased a Voice100 analytical instrument from the Christchurch company Syft Technologies to further their research capabilities in a number of key application areas.

AgResearch has purchased a Voice100 analytical instrument from Syft Technologies to expand their research capabilities using the groundbreaking technology platform SIFT-MS (Selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry).

AgResearch is New Zealand’s largest Crown Research Institute, with internationally acknowledged expertise in the biological sciences.

“The installation of the Voice100 at one of our research locations will provide the organisation with access to extraordinarily fast and sensitive technology for the detection of Volatile Organic Compounds,” says AgResearch’s Chief Science Strategist, Dr Stephen Goldson.

“We have long known of the advanced analytical capabilities of this technology and we are excited to be able to start to use the technique to further our capacity in areas such as identifying the volatiles being emitted from carpets and various other wool-based fabrics. It also offers new opportunity in the area of animal health and systems to detect the presence of biosecurity hazards. All of this further enhances AgResearch’s value to the New Zealand pastoral sector as well as providing commercial opportunities off-shore,” said Dr Goldson.

Syft has been concentrating on its export markets in recent months and is very pleased to be able to deliver its flagship product, the Voice100, into such a key market area.

Syft CEO, Geoff Peck is delighted with the sale. “As a company heavily involved in scientific work and research, we have a huge amount of respect for the quality of research coming out of AgResearch. To be able to provide their scientists with our product, New Zealand company to New Zealand company, is a great and positive development. We are convinced that with companies like AgResearch having access to this kind of technology, opportunities to strengthen scientific capability are being greatly advanced.

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About Syft Technologies

Syft Technologies is a privately funded company, originally formed out of Canterbury University, New Zealand in 2002 to commercialise SIFT-MS technology (Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry) – a scientific breakthrough previously confined to specialist research labs for identification of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs).

The company successfully honed the technique into an ingenious product range that can instantly and accurately identify trace level VOCs down to less than one part per billion. The company has been focusing recently on the European Market and has just opened a UK based office to further service this market.

For more information visit www.syft.com and www.agresearch.co.nz

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