Technology provider all-stars in 45 categories were selected by the readers of Chemical Processing in the 2008 Readers’ Choice Awards survey. In its fifth year, the survey results show which providers are big hits with our readers.

Like baseball fans, our readers told us who their favorite technology players are by voting for them online. Based on their comments, the readers are big fans of the survey. “Your categories are very thorough,” says one reader. The survey is “good and useful,” comments another. We hope this year’s list of all-stars helps your team in the working world feel like a winner in selecting technology providers.

Vendors pay close attention in scouting the survey results like box scores to know if their batting averages with the end users are among the league leaders. Those that make the cut to be included on the list do feel like all-stars because it means they gained a solid following of fans who consider them to be technology leaders. The others with lower batting averages might be motivated to keep a keener eye on the ball to enhance their products so that they can gain mention next season.

heavy hiTTers

As in past surveys, Emerson Process Management has maintained it’s dominance, and is the MVP of the league for placing first in nine categories and placing in seven others. Other league leaders who garnered multiple men-tions include ABB, Alfa Laval, Aspen Technology, Dow, Endress+Hauser, Fluke, Honeywell and Siemens.

If you weren’t a player in this year’s survey, we hope you’ll consider getting on the field next season.

geT your score cards ready

Here’s how the technology provider all-stars were deter-mined. Readers received e-mail notices and electronic newsletters or used a link posted on our Web site (www.ChemicalProcessing.com) to access the questionnaire. The survey was open for responses for just over one month. A total of 316 readers cast their votes about which vendors they prefer in 45 different categories. Categories were listed, but respondents had to make their own selections by typing the name of the technology provider in each blank text box. By not providing a pre-selected list of companies in each category, we avoided bias in the survey. This also meant that respondents were free to use as broad a definition of a category as they wanted.

The rankings show the percentage of total responses in each category that a particular company received. A mini-mum of at least 5% of the votes in a category is required to be listed. Scores within 3% of each other should be consid-ered a statistical tie.

reader scores, Too

Gerald Sugerman of VOCFree Inc., Hackensack, N.J., scored an 80-GB iPod Classic, which was offered as an incentive for our respondents to participate in the Read-ers’ Choice survey. His name was randomly selected by computer from all of the respondents.

All-star technology providers lineup covers all the bases

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Bearings

SKF 51%Timken 14%

Boilers/sTeam sysTems

Babcock & Wilcox 20%Cleaver Brooks 12%Thermax 7%

caTalysTs

BASF (Engelhard) 13%UOP 9%Degussa 6%

cenTrifugal pumps

Goulds Pumps – ITT 37%Flowserve 15%KSB 7%

cenTrifuges

Alfa Laval 17%Westfalia 10%Sharples 8%Bird 6%

compressors

Ingersoll-Rand 28%Atlas Copco 15%

compuTerized mainTenance

managemenT sofTware

SAP 15%Emerson Process Management 15%Maximo 12%

disTillaTion sysTems

Koch-Glitsch 31%Sulzer 8%UOP 5%

dryers

Niro 10%

dusT conTrol sysTems

Donaldson-Torit 20%

elasTomers

DuPont 42%Dow 12%

engineering/design services

Emerson Process Management 13%

Jacobs Engineering 10%CH2MHill (Lockwood Greene) 7%

explosion proTecTion sysTems

Fike 43%Fenwal 9%

fans/Blowers

New York Blower 18%Howden Buffalo 9%Dresser Roots 7%Robinson 6%

feeders

K-Tron 15%Acrison 9%AccuRate 6%

filTraTion sysTems

Pall 15%Siemens (U.S. Filter) 12%Millipore 4%Parker 4%

flow insTrumenTaTion

Emerson Process Management 62%Endress+Hauser 5%Siemens 4%

heaT exchangers

Alfa Laval 26% ITT Standard 6%Invensys 5%Tranter 5%

heaT Transfer fluids

Dow 63%Solutia 9%

infrared Thermography equipmenT

FLIR 34%Fluke 11%Emerson Process Management 11%

insTrumenT caliBraTion sysTem

Emerson Process Management 30%Fluke 23%

laBoraTory/qualiTy sysTems

Fisher Scientific 8%Agilent 6%Hach Company 6%

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LIMS 6%

level insTrumenTaTion

Emerson Process Management 60%Endress+Hauser 7%

luBricanTs

ExxonMobil 19%Shell 18%

mixing sysTems

SPX Process Equipment(Lightnin) 27%Chemineer 15%

moTors

Baldor 28%Emerson Process Mngmt. (U.S. Motors) 21% Siemens 13%GE 12%

pipe/TuBing/fiTTings

Swagelok 31%

planT design sofTware

Aspen Technology 22%Intergraph 14%Autocad 13% Emerson Process Management 7%

posiTive displacemenT pumps

Viking 22%Moyno 10%

pressure insTrumenTaTion

Emerson Process Management 65%Ashcroft 6%process analyzers

Emerson Process Management 50%ABB 14%Siemens 6%

process auTomaTion sysTems

Emerson Process Management 68%Honeywell 9%ABB 5%Rockwell 4%

process simulaTion sofTware

Aspen Technology 35%Emerson Process Management 15%Mynah 15%Honeywell 5%

refrigeraTion/chilling sysTem

Carrier 23%York 21%Trane 19%

screening equipmenT

Sweco 33%ROTEX 14%

seals

John Crane 34%A.W. Chesterton 11%

spray nozzles

Spraying Systems 41%Bete Fog Nozzle 17%Sprayco 9%

Tanks/vessels

American Tank & Vessel 7%Columbian Tech Tank 6%

TemperaTure insTrumenTaTion

Emerson Process Management 69%

vacuum sysTems

Nash_Elmo 14%Busch 12%

valves/acTuaTors

Emerson Process Management 62%

variaBle speed drives

Allen Bradley 21%ABB 19%Siemens 7%Emerson Process Management 7%

viBraTion moniToring equipmenT

Bently Nevada (GE) 47%Emerson Process Management 37%

waTer TreaTmenT sysTems

Nalco 11%G.E. 9%Siemens 8%

weighing sysTems

Metler Toledo 47%Fairbanks 5%Avery 4%

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