Water quality testing blog

PMA Fresh Summit promotional video from its on Vimeo.

The ITS staff shot this funny promotional video for our first PMA Fresh Summit show. Watch the last 5 seconds for our tribute to Steve Jobs.

Here’s our latest video on the new eXact Micro 10 Photometer for pool water testing. The eXact® Micro 10 photometer is the first meter developed to measure combined chlorine directly with 0.01 precision and no math! It uses the ITS patented test strip method and technologies that offer faster, safer, easier, and more precise water testing. It uses the same simple test procedure as our eXact line of photometers. Simply FILL the built in cell, DIP the reagent strip and READ the result. This video is an overview of best testing practices using the meter and demonstrates testing for Free Chlorine, Combined Chlorine, pH and Cyanuric Acid.

The latest ITS world-wide trade show schedule for the Fall.

SAPSOL
Stand F11
Johannesburg South Africa
Sept.9-11 2011

P.I.E.
Booth 306
Monterrey CA
Sept.29-Oct.1 2011

H20 Expo 2011
Booth 4011
Location: Louisville KY
Oct.4-6 2011

PMA Summitt
Booth 4814
Location: Atlanta Ga
Oct.14-17 2011

Piscina Barcelona
Stand D409
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Oct.18-21 2011

WEFTEC 2011
Booth 220
Location: Los Angeles CA
Oct.17-19 2011

EWQA 2011
Booth
Location: Lancaster, PA
Oct.26-27 2011

WEASC 2011
Booth 220
Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
Oct. 27-28, 2011

Aquanale
Stand A-031
Location: Cologne, Germany
Oct. 27-28, 2011

Aquatech Amsterdam 2011
Stand 02.101B
Location: Amsterdam.Netherlands
Nov.1-4, 2011

IPSPE 2011
Booth 1414
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Nov.2-4 2011

NGWA
Booth 1033
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Nov.30-Dec.1 2011

The new eXact^® Chlorine Plus photometer is the perfect oxidizer meter for water testing. The eXact^® Chlorine Plus provides direct read capabilities for Combined Chlorine, Free Chlorine, Total Chlorine, Hydrogen Peroxide Low Range, High Range Free Chlorine, and Glycine, and % Transmission which allows for testing of additional parameters. The meter is safe to use in food process areas with no glass to break, powders to spill or tablets to crush. It uses a patented method and technologies that offer faster, safer, easier, and more precise water testing. See a demo at the upcoming Produce Marketing Association Fresh Summit  show Oct 14-17 in Atlanta, GA. Visit booth 4814 and register to win an iPad2. For a limited time, take 10% off the kit purchase on our website. Use code CLPLUS at checkout.

Recent advances in Chlorine testing in water prompted ITS President Ivars Jaunakais to write an overview of chlorine testing and best practices. His article ” Advances in Chlorine Testing” appears this month in Water Quality Products. He illustrates the chemistry, methods and reasons why Chlorine should be tested on a regular basis.

Marketing Manager Mike McBride recently had an article on social media and business published in Water Technology magazine. “Getting Social for Business Reasons”  is a good primer for businesses to effectively use social media in their marketing arsenal.

Industrial Test Systems was recently named one of the Top 300 Small Businesses of the South by Business Leader Magazine. Business Leader Magazine selected the top 300 small businesses based on achievement, sales growth, and community accomplishment. Sales growth reflects the amount of our increased sales over the last year, business achievement reflects the number of years in business and its impact on the local economy. The community achievement reflects our efforts in bettering our community, Rock Hill, South Carolina.

The publication features current trends and information on businesses from the Southern states and ITS was honored with the award June 22nd.

The readers of the leading pool and spa business and consumer trade magazine, Pool & Spa News, selected the new eXact® Micro 10 photometer as one of “The Top 50 Products of 2011.” The annual readers’ choice award recognized the eXact® Micro 10 for its accurate and reliable on-site water testing results. It’s the first meter to read Combined Chlorine directly with 0.01 precision using no math. Using a patented procedures (US Patents #7333194, #7491546), the eXact Micro 10 photometer tests for 40 water parameters using test strips. No color matching is required to determine water quality levels and most testing is done with exact results in under a minute.