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March 4, 2002

Nurnberg to manage Sapphire Engineering

Scivex is pleased to announce that Steve Nurnberg has joined its Sapphire Engineering Division as General Manager.

For nearly a century, Sapphire Engineering, Inc. has designed and manufactured high-precision sapphire products, offering U.S. customers a domestic alternative while supplying the world with top quality products at competitive prices. Today, Sapphire's manufacturing expertise incorporates other hard materials, such as zirconia ceramics, ruby and stainless steel. Sapphire products include custom OEM pistons, balls/seats, check valves, pump heads, flow-cell assemblies and precision dispense pumps.

“Steve’s vast experience in the analytical instrument industry is a perfect fit for Sapphire and its role in the Scivex objective of providing total fluidic solutions,” said Alan Schell, Scivex CEO.

Nurnberg’s 25 years of management include: Director of R&D for Applied Biosystems, VP of Worldwide Operations and Product Development at Millipore’s Bioresearch Division, Director of Product Development for Waters Chromatography Division and General Manager of the Waters Detector Business Unit. Prior to his ten years with Millipore/Waters he spent 14 years with Corning managing electrical engineering, software, electronics and process control development. Most recently he has worked with Scivex on new product development through Protasis, a Scivex supplier.

With the addition of Nurnberg, Sapphire Engineering President Keith Besse will now focus on product conceptualization and design as well as strategic relationship management.

Scivex was created in the year 2000 to provide total fluidic solutions to analytical lab and diagnostic original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Scivex divisions include Upchurch Scientific, Sapphire Engineering and JL White Technical Sales (White Seal). The leading equity sponsor of Scivex is KRG Capital Partners, L.L.C., a Denver, CO based private equity firm.


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