Company Announcements

ALPHA MOS announced in June, according to Reuters and a document translated by Google Translate, the sale of 50% of the company’s voting rights held by Diagnostic Medical Systems to Jolt Capital and Ambrosia Investments for €6.5 million ($7.3 million). Jolt and Ambrosia are to launch a tender offer for the remaining shares of the company.

In October, INFICON announced that its third quarter Security & Energy sales declined 46.9% to $5.1 million.

In November, Agilent Technologies recognized Dow Chemical’s Gas Chromatography Centre of Expertise at Alberta Operations for outstanding collaboration in developing the Agilent Intuvo 9000 GC and Agilent 8355 Sulfur Chemiluminescence Detector. The companies’ collaboration spans 28 years.

Product Introductions

In August, LECO introduced the Pegasus GC-HRT⁺ and GC-HRT⁺ 4D GC and GCxGC-TOF MS systems. New to the systems is the Encoded Frequent Pushing method for increased duty cycle.

In September, Teledyne Tekmar launched the Atomx XYZ Automated Purge and Trap concentrator with integrated autosampler for automated analysis of volatile organic compounds in soil and water samples. It features a reduced footprint compared to earlier Atomx systems and increased vial capacity, as well as redesigned software.

For its GC/MS systems, Shimadzu released in October the Polymer Additives Library, which contains 4,869 mass spectra of 494 types of polymer material additives.

In November, Shimadzu debuted the TD-30 series thermal desorption systems for analysis of volatile compounds: the mid-range TD-30, which can process up to 60 samples, and the high-end TD-30R, which can process up to 120 samples. They feature the ability to accommodate a wide range of components.

In October, Thermo Fisher Scientific announced an update to its Thermo Scientific Orbitrap GC-MS systems, adding Variable electron Voltage (VeV) technology, the Orbitrap GC-MS HRAM Metabolomics Library and new TraceFinder Automated compound Identification software.

Phenomenex, a Danaher company, unveiled in October the Zebron ZB-PAH GC columns for PAH analysis features faster analysis times and greater resolution.