January: Our Australian partner, Trevor Hinwood, from Hin Sci, participated in ACMM27 where he presented several Linkam stages, including the CMS196.
February: We celebrated Chinese New Year with a tasty buffet.
March: We attended TAC23 at the University of Huddersfield.
April: We attended the FOM 2023 conference in Portugal at the start of the month. At the end of the month we also held our own karting Grand Prix.
May: We welcomed Kelly and Bill from ProSpect Scientific, our Canadian partners, to our UK offices in Salfords, Surrey. We had a productive couple of days discussing the shape of the market in Canada and conducting hands-on training on Linkam’s full product range.
June: We welcomed AD Creative, our Chinese partners, to the UK. The same month some of our staff built two picnic tables to enjoy the pleasant surroundings outside our UK offices.
July: We attended the Microscopy and Microanalysis 2023 conference in Minneapolis, USA where we ran three very popular exhibitor tutorials on our latest prototype, the CryoGenium.
August: We announced the appointment of Clara Ko to the position of Sales and Marketing Director. Clara joined Linkam in 2022 as the Sales Manager.
September: A busy month with two separate visits from our Chinese and American partners, AD Creative and McCrone, to our UK headquarters. Some of our staff also volunteered with the I Choose Freedom charity. The charity provides shelter, support, and counselling for women and children who have escaped from abusive situations. Our team spent the day doing various gardening tasks at their centre. We also participated in the 20th Optics of Liquid Crystals Conference.
October: We attended the Advanced Materials Show USA 2023 in Columbus, Ohio and visited McCrone at their offices in Chicago. We also participated in the All Things Cryo Workshop at the University of Nottingham from October 9-13.
November: We attended the Annual Cryo-Microscopy Group Meeting in Birmingham on November 15 and held our annual staff get together at Fairgame in Canary Wharf, where we enjoyed catching up with our colleagues from Holland.
