Company Announcements

Applied Research & Photonics and the SAIC-Frederick entered into a collaboration to assess terahertz spectrometry for the analysis of structures and materials supporting biopharmaceuticals manufacturing.

Stratophase announced in January that it secured £2.5 million ($4.0 million) in follow-on funding.

InProcess Instruments named Dr. Andreas Pickuth managing director in February.

In February, Thermo Fisher Scientific announced the opening of a new sales and service facility in São Paulo, Brazil, which will primarily serve users of on-line elemental analyzer, among other products.

Hach is distributing BioTector Analytical Systems’ total organic carbon, total nitrogen and total phosphorous on-line liquid analyzers to industrial customers in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Europe.

Product Introductions

INFICON introduced the CMS5000 Monitoring System for continuous, remote monitoring of water or air for volatile organic compounds and toxic industrial chemicals on site using GC.

Emerson Process Management launched the Rosemount Analytical X-STREAM XE process gas analyzer with web browser–based accessibility.

Emerson Process Management released the Rosemount Analytical RDO optical dissolved oxygen (DO) sensor and analyzer for wastewater aeration basins and ponds.

GE Analytical Instruments launched the Sievers InnovOx On-Line Total Organic Analyzer for measurements of 0.5–50,000 ppm using Supercritical Water Oxidation.

Thermo Fisher Scientific released the Thermo Scientific iMEGA multigas nondispersive IR CEMS.

Thermo Fisher Scientific released the Thermo Scientific Prima PRO process MS for on-line gas analysis in petrochemical applications, featuring low maintenance requirements.

Honeywell added oxidation reduction potential measurements to its HPW7000 High-Purity Water Measurement System.

FOSS NIRSystems introduced the XDS Process Analytics Direct Light for in-line real time NIR analysis for applications in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

The Granville-Philips Group of Brooks Automation launched the Simplicity Solutions 830 Vacuum Quality Monitor System, which is based on electrostatic ion trap MS, for gas compositional analysis.

Hamilton introduced the ARC sensor system for pH, DO and conductivity measurements, which eliminates the use of transmitters.

Hamilton released the pHeasy ARC sensor for process pH measurement without recalibration and with performance feedback.