NEHA Congratulates Taylor on Membership Milestone "Congratulations to Taylor Technologies on their 80 years in business and 25 years as a Sustaining Member of the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA). Milestone anniversaries like these provide an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of such special events. In the case of Taylor Technologies, we see a story that features a long-time dedication to ensuring safe water for the public. NEHA is also impressed by the loyal nature of Taylor Technologies to its customers and friends. NEHA is proud to have Taylor Technologies as a part of our environmental health family, and we wish them continued success for many years to come."—Nelson Fabian, Executive Director, National Environmental Health Association Have You Seen Our Video Demos? This spring we embarked on a project to videotape product demonstrations for some of our best selling kits. To see what’s currently available, navigate to the Product Info button at the top of this screen. Select "View On-line Demo." Then choose your category of interest to see what’s in the library. Check back often as we will keep adding videos throughout the year.   Note:  Our product demos use a high-quality video format. They are best viewed on a computer with a processor that is at least 1.6 GHz and has at least 1 GB RAM. To prevent "stuttering," it may be helpful to pause the video for about 20 seconds immediately after starting it to allow it to buffer completely. June Prize Winner James McDonald, a professional engineer and AWT-certified water technologist out of Vandalia, Ohio, is the latest winner in our monthly drawing for a free SpeedStir® and SampleSizer®. Congratulations, James!   To celebrate Taylor’s 80th anniversary, throughout the remainder of 2010 the name of one Cornerstone newsletter reader will be drawn monthly to receive these testing tools worth $50+.   To be eligible, you must be involved in water testing and receiving The Cornerstone at your business address. (If your organization is not presently receiving this newsletter for commercial/industrial water treatment professionals, here is the link to the sign-up screen.) Then e-mail your name, business name, street address, and CSZ to Marketing. Enter once to be eligible all year. Credit Card News Taylor now accepts VISA®, MasterCard® and Discover® for domestic (U.S.) orders. If your order ships within the continental U.S. and you make an immediate payment with one of these cards, you are eligible for our flat-rate service, as outlined below. Total of Purchase             Flat-Rate Charge          (pre-Tax)                  for Standard Shipping $0 - $25.00                                $7.50 $25.01 - $50.00                         $5.00 Over $50.00                               FREE Carriers may impose packaging restrictions and special charges for transporting your order. Our flat-rate charge for standard shipping DOES NOT include any special charges that are levied by the carrier on "dangerous goods" and certain glassware, nor "protect from freezing" service that you request. Shipments to Alaska and Hawaii often involve packing restrictions and special charges by the carrier for transporting orders outside the continental U.S. You pay ONLY the actual shipping cost (no handling fee for Taylor). Before processing your order, Taylor will notify you by e-mail of the carrier's charges for your approval. More information about purchasing options is available in the Learn More section of this website under FAQs. Professional Journal Spotlights Cabinet Pollution Equipment News, the journal for water, wastewater, air pollution, and hazardous waste management professionals, selected Taylor's Wall-Mount Cabinet for Water Testing (K-9780 ) to feature in its February 2010 review of water quality instruments. The lockable, lighted cabinet will provide dedicated testing space at your sampling site. Constructed of 20-gauge steel with a white, baked enamel finish, it can hold four buret titration setups plus three shelves' worth of reagents and test equipment (purchase separately). Exterior dimensions are 30" w x 20" h x 10" d; fold down the lower door to gain an additional 2+ square feet of work surface. Please Consider Lending Your Support Every 15 seconds a child dies from a water-related disease somewhere in the world. Water For People is a leading NGO (non-governmental organization) working hard to eradicate the conditions behind this awful statistic. They help people in developing countries improve their quality of life by partnering with them to provide locally sustainable drinking water resources, sanitation facilities, and health and hygiene education programs. Safe Water International Ministries operates on a much smaller scale out of Washington, Iowa, with no paid staff. SWIM volunteers visit remote villages in Central America and southern Africa spreading the Gospel and delivering a simple lightweight device that generates chlorine for disinfecting potable water by the electrolysis of common table salt. Taylor shares these charities' vision:  a world where all people have access to safe drinking water and sanitation, a world where no one suffers or dies from a water- or sanitation-related disease. In 2010 we are pleased to continue our financial support of their missions. To learn more about them and how you too could help, visit http://www.waterforpeople.org/ and http://www.swimforhim.net/. Swim Coaches Endorse Taylor Test Kits VP of Marketing Pat Fitzgerald says the American Swimming Coaches Association and its sister organization, SwimAmerica, have again designated Taylor Technologies their preferred provider of pool and spa water-testing supplies. 2010 is the tenth year in a row ASCA has chosen to partner with Taylor. "The ASCA's endorsement means a lot to us," Pat says, "since maintaining water quality for swimmers is a key concern of their coaches." The American Swimming Coaches Association is a professional service organization whose membership includes age-group coaches, high school and college coaches, learn-to-swim professionals at YMCAs and the like, master swimmers, and every former Olympic coach since 1956. All are dedicated to building a stronger swimming community through leadership, education, certification, and cooperation. Its affiliate, SwimAmerica, is the nation's leading learn-to-swim school. New Look Coming for Test Strips in 2010 A new look for Taylor's sureTRACK® test strips was unveiled at the 2009 International Pool/Spa/Patio Expo. See examples in photo. The new shaker dispensers for consumers each contain 50 strips and will now ship in packs of 12, instead of 25. Resealable foil pouches contain 10 strips and still ship in packs of 25. sureTRACK test strips give water analysis results that compare favorably with Taylor wet-chemistry tests. We also use a more expensive process than ordinary four-color printing to produce our color standards. Spot printing results in consistent hues throughout every production run, so there can be no confusion when matching the colors that develop on the strip with the color chart on the product label. The new dispenser prevents spoilage due to wet fingers by limiting how many strips can pop out at one time. The rest stay protected inside the container where an extra-large desiccant pillow absorbs intrusive moisture. Our resealable foil pouch version is ideal for checking the water quality at your local pool or fitness center, or the hotel pool when traveling. Click on these links for more information: 4-way in shaker:  K-1302-12 4-way in foil pouch:  K-1305-25 6-way in shaker:  K-1312-12 6-way in foil pouch:  K-1315-25 Faster, More Complete Mixing If you perform many drop-count titrations in a day that involve our 9198 sample tube, you should consider adding a new tool to your testing arsenal:  the SpeedStir® (9265). This palmsize, portable magnetic stirrer will thoroughly incorporate each addition of reagent in a fraction of a second. Place the water sample on the mixing platform, gently drop in the Teflon®-coated stir bar, turn the unit on, and dispense reagent. No more manual swirl­ing! When ambient light is poor, six LEDs below the mixing platform can be lit up to make color changes in the test sample easy to see. The SpeedStir runs on four AA alkaline batteries at 600 rpm. The start-up pack, product number 9265, includes the stirrer, the stir bar, the 9198 sample tube, and batteries. To read the product flier, click here. For pricing, click here. Success Meeting ISO 9001:2008 William J. Erikson, Taylor's Director of Quality & Compliance, says the firm has received notification from registrar Intertek Testing Services NA that our Quality Management System has been certified to the newest ISO standard, ISO 9001:2008. An independent auditor from Intertek visited Taylor in mid-September to determine whether the quality program governing our product development, manufacturing, and customer service processes complies with the latest standards promulgated by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). To become certified, employees at every level must show their dedication to optimizing organizational performance and the company must specify the metrics it uses to track progress. Because of this, customers of certified businesses can use ISO conformance as demonstration of the company's commitment to continually improving the quality of its goods and services. At Taylor, we're committed to providing our customers with: - accurate and timely service, - consistent product performance, - a staff motivated to excel, - assured regulatory compliance, and - innovative business solutions. Try us and see! Attention Commercial Pools! The ANSI/APSP-11 2009 Standard for Water Quality in Public Pools and Spas drafted by the Recreational Water Quality Committee of The Association of Pool and Spa Professionals (APSP) was approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in June 2009. APSP has now released the standard and it is available for purchase from them by calling 703-838-0083. APSP calls the standard "the first comprehensive, data-driven and knowledge-based standard for pool and spa water quality and chemistry." In years past, the organization's recommendations for water maintenance parameters such as chlorine sanitizer, pH, and water hardness have informed many city, county, and state public health codes governing commercial pools and spas. With APSP's permission, over the years we have reprinted their basic recommendations in our testing and treatment guides. As our guides come up for reprinting we will incorporate the changes seen in the 2009 standard. Meanwhile, a summary from Appendix A of ANSI/APSP-11 2009 can be viewed here. SampleSizer Measuring Tool Debuts Many Taylor specialty tests are done with either a 25-mL or 10-mL water sample in our 9198 sample tube, for instance the FAS-DPD chlorine test, the EDTA chelant test, and the saltwater test for pools. Using this new tool, you won't need to flick off the excess water to get the meniscus of the sample water to rest precisely on the fill line. Simply lower the SampleSizer™ into the 9198 test vial filled with the water to be tested. It will displace exactly the right amount to leave the correct volume to perform the test:  either 25 mL or 10 mL, depending on which end of the tool goes in first. The SampleSizer is removed once the extra water is splashed out. Order singly (6190), or in the 12-pack (6190-12) for a 10% savings. Click here to view an on-line demo of the SampleSizer in action. The SampleSizer was one of a handful of innovations selected by Pool & Spa News for their feature "2010 New Products." Boiler/Cooling Water Tests Get Makeover Check out the bold new look of our most popular kits for industrial water treatment...we've color-coded the reagent caps to the test instructions and provided picture guides to the color transitions you can expect in your treated water sample. Click here for a flier describing the new color-coded kits. New Water Balance Calculators For less than the cost of a burger and fries you can skip the arduous Saturation Index calculation when you're poolside. Plug your test values into one of our Watergram® Water Balance Calculators and learn immediately whether the water is trending towards scaling or corrosive conditions. The improved 6026 has become a three-disk slide rule, thus eliminating the manual subtraction step in the original version. This circular Watergram makes it easy to play with different treatment scenarios to see which of the water balance parameters makes the most sense to adjust. You'll find it in 2000 Series™ combination test kits and our countertop labs. We've also developed an electronic version that's as small as a credit-card-size pocket calculator (6028). Indeed, it can be used to perform basic mathematical operations besides the water balance calculation. The programming automatically takes into account the effect cyanuric acid has on total alkalinity and allows a user to override the default value for total dissolved solids with a specific TDS level. "What if" adjustment scenarios are a snap to perform with this solar-powered version, as only the changed value(s) needs to be reentered. The 6028 is included in all Professional Series™ test kits. Note:  both models offer a temperature choice of degrees Fahrenheit or degrees Celsius. To read more about the advances made in the Watergram, click here. Updated Testing Guide Now in English and Spanish Taylor's Pool & Spa Water Chemistry has been updated to reflect current practices and standards of care. The waterproof guide now offers five fact-filled chapters on all aspects of water quality maintenance, FAQs about water testing, a glossary, the latest water chemistry guidelines from industry experts, and dosage charts in both U.S. gallons and liters. The English version is sold singly (2004B) and in quantities of 25 (2004B-25). So is the just-released International Spanish version (2004B-S and 2004B-S-25). This translation is intended for global consumption and will be understandable to most readers, whatever dialect is spoken. The new booklets are packed in a number of combination kits, as well. These include the Complete-High Range (K-2005 or K-2005S), Service Complete-High Range (K-2005C or K-2005CS), and Professional Complete-Chlorine (K-1741C) kits. Note: S denotes Spanish case label, instructions, and 2004B. No Vehicle Graphics? A Cure for Plain Panels If you are a pool/spa retailer, installer, builder, or service company and can't afford custom lettering and graphics for your whole fleet, here's a way to promote your business on every company vehicle! Simply attach a pair of these colorful magnetic signs to the side panels of your plain vans, trucks, and cars so potential customers can see how to hire you. Just under 11" by 17", the eye-catching magnets adhere to any smooth, clean, metal surface. The white area of the sign (2 or 3 lines, as shown) is available for customization. Black lettering is standard. Choose your business name plus location, phone number, or website address. Cost is $49.45 per pair, including shipping. Call 800-TEST KIT to order. (Not available for purchase on our website.) Cornerstone Newsletter Circulation Nears 15,000 The Cornerstone's subscriber base now numbers nearly 15,500. This quarterly newsletter offers timely and profitable information for those who test water in boilers and cooling systems in commercial, industrial, and institutional settings. If you're not already receiving this publication, some of the topics you've missed include tests for cycle monitoring in steam boilers, measuring nitrite in cooling systems, new tests for polymer in boiler and cooling waters, a tutorial on analyzing alkalinity, the finer points of chloride testing, summaries of our hardness and sulfite test choices, chlorine tests for the food industry, and a review of testing techniques. To sign up for a complimentary subscription, click here. Don't miss another issue! Entertain & Educate Customers with the Pool Investigotter! Nature's premier aquatic detective, the Pool Investigotter™, makes a colorful pitchman for Taylor's testing products. Retailers are invited to take the survey now running on our website. In return, you'll receive a vinyl banner, poster, counter mat, door decal, and take-one pad of testing tips starring our intrepid "PI."