Systech Illinois' Technical Sales Manager to speak about PET barrier technology at the Barrier Bottles and Jars Conference 2011

OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, October 05, 2011 (Press-News.org) Systech Illinois, a leading global manufacturer of gas analysis equipment, announces that Technical Sales Manager Graham Jennings will be speaking at the Annual Barriers, Bottles and Jars Conference 2011, to be held on 11th and 12th October 2011 at Le Meridien Hotel in Brussels, Belgium. The theme of this year's event will be promoting better collaboration across the supply chain to facilitate the innovation needed in barrier technology. For more information call +44 (0) 1844 216838 or go to http://www.systechillinois.com.

"We're delighted that Graham was invited to speak at the conference," said Beth Faulkner, Marketing Manager for Systech Illinois. "The innovative conference will encompass technologies used to create barriers and coatings for PET and polypropylene bottles, such as those used in hot food containers, sterile fruit juice containers and other foodstuffs."

Graham Jennings will be speaking at the event about oxygen permeation analysis of bottles, barriers and jars and how this can be used for production testing on modern high-speed forming lines and laboratory package development work. The user-friendly, cost-efficient technology is already being utilized at Loughry Campus, located in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, where educational and training programmes are offered in all elements of Food Management. Graham Jennings will be talking in detail about how the oxygen permeation analysers have revolutionized research at the facility's state-of-the-art Packaging Centre laboratory, which provides a resource for evaluating packaging materials and distribution packaging systems. Beth Faulkner states, "Graham's technical knowledge is really quite impressive, so we're confident that the conference attendees will benefit from his presentation,"

About Systech Illinois

Systech Illinois specialises in online, portable and laboratory gas analysis equipment. With 25 years as one of the leading experts in gas and moisture measurement, Systech Illinois' application and technology knowledge provides efficient gas analysis solutions in many industry sectors worldwide. Systech Illinois' range of oxygen permeation analysers and water vapour permeation analysers offer precise, accurate measurements for all packaging film, finished package and PET bottles. Systech also provides ATEX-approved analysers for measuring both ppm and percentage levels of oxygen in hazardous areas.

Systech Illinois is a multinational company with offices and gas analysis equipment manufacturing facilities in the UK and the U.S. The company prides itself on having a well developed and well trained workforce, with established and effective procedures, which enable it to offer customers a continuing high level of service, and become known as a globally leading supplier of gas analysis instrumentation.