The power conditions across the Caribbean, Central America, South America,and Mexico, like the U.S. and Canada, are overtaxed and unstable at best.The current population explosion across these regions is putting asubstantial burden on the power distribution infrastructure resulting infrequent brown-outs and zone outages as well as inconsistent power deliveryriddled with transients and spikes. These conditions can be devastating tosophisticated laboratories running highly sensitive instrumentation as apower outage, even as short as 30-miliseconds, can not only damage costlyinstrumentation but also can destroy irreplaceable samples in process atthe time of the outage. The implementation of Franek Technologies'certified power protection systems protects against these inevitable powerglitches and outages by ensuring the viability of results, safeguardingagainst lost productive time, and protecting the laboratory from outrightinstrumentation damage or loss.

Currently protecting over $3 billion in worldwide laboratory assets, FranekTechnologies specializes in providing certified uninterruptible batterybackup power solutions for life science, analytical, diagnostics,pharmaceutical, and biotechnology instrumentation system applications. Itskey scientific and medical LPS applications are drug discovery; oncology;DNA-PCR; genomics and proteomics research; pharmaceutical production;clinical chemistry; immunology and cytometry; diagnostic imaging;hematology and blood banking; forensics; petrochemical andscientific/biotechnology commercial research and production.

"We are happy to have both BioArtis Healthcare and Corporación CientíficaVenezolana representing us in the Caribbean, Central America, andVenezuela," explained Ray Hecker, VP and General Manager, FranekTechnologies, Inc. "We look forward to working closely with them for yearsto come to further our international reach."

Franek Technologies is exhibiting (booth #2505) at the 59th PittsburgConference on Analytical Chemistry and Mass Spectroscopy, Pittcon 2008,from March 3-6 in New Orleans, LA. At the show, booth visitors will beable to see examples of certified category III-3 instrumentation gradelaboratory protection systems for both North American (UL) andinternational (CE) applications, as well as discuss specificinstrumentation applications.

Franek Technologies, Inc. specializes in providing LaboratoryProductivity/Protection Systems (LPS/UPS) for analytical, diagnostics,forensic, life-science, pharmaceutical and biotechnology instrumentationsystems applications. Its certified uninterruptible battery backup powersources for laboratory and instrumentation applications protect over $3billion in laboratory assets worldwide. The company's power engineers havedeveloped LPS/UPS products for over 1,500 instrumentation applications,from more than 100 manufacturers, to meet US Government power requirements.For more information, call (800) 326-6480 or visit www.franek.com.