Company Announcements

Zyomic Technologies announced in fall 2016 that it is now distributing South Korea–based YL Instruments’ GC and GC/MS systems in the US.

INFICON’s third quarter Security & Energy sales grew 62.7% to $9.6 million, or 12% of company sales.

Product Introductions

Markes International debuted in fall 2016 the HiSorb product range of probes and accessories for thermal desorption. Utilizing a new technology for high-capacity sorptive extraction of organic chemicals, the products can be used for immersive or headspace sampling of liquids, as well as headspace sampling of solids.

In November 2016, FLIR launched the portable Griffin G465 mobile ion trap GC/MS system with real-time vapor survey mode.

INFICON released in November 2016 the Micro GC Fusion 4-Module system, adding to the existing 2-Module configuration.

In November 2016, PAC introduced the SeNse Sulfur Chemiluminescence Detector, featuring sensitivity of 0.3 pg S/sec and using air instead of oxygen.

Shimadzu released in January the Smart Pesticides Database v2 for residual pesticides in food using triple quadrupole GC/MS, which contains 530 pesticides. The optimal recommended calibration reagents, sample pretreatment kits and GC consumables are also available. The database also contains information on single quadrupole GC/MS.