Company Announcements

DeNovix announced an exclusive distribution agreement with Uniscience do Brasil for Brazil.

Alliance Global signed an exclusive master distribution agreement with Trinean for emerging markets in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

In February, B&W Tek signed a distribution agreement with VWR for the distribution of its Raman products in the US and Puerto Rico.

B&W Tek announced in March a strategic partnership with LabWare for distribution of a preconfigured Raman spectroscopy template solution that automates data acquisition from B&W’s NanoRam spectrometer into LabWare’s Enterprise Laboratory Platform.

Bio-Rad Laboratories partnered with the US Pharmacopeial Convention as part of the USP Spectral Library Project, an initiative to develop an authoritative collection of spectral information on food and drug quality.

Product Introductions

TeTechS launched in January the portable, reconfigurable Rigel 1550 Series fiber-coupled terahertz time-domain spectrometer, featuring transmission, reflection and attenuated total reflection measurement modules.

Advantest introduced the low-cost, compact TAS7400 Series terahertz spectrometer, offered in three configurations that cover different bandwidths.

Ocean Optics released in February the PQ Pro back-thinned CCD array spectrometer, featuring a wide dynamic range and extremely low-noise operation.

Ocean Optics introduced in March the Maya LSL Spectrometer, featuring a back-thinned CCD array detector and low stray-light optical design.

In February, Verisante Technology introduced the VRS Verisante Research System rapid Raman spectrometer.

B&W Tek introduced the NanoRam FP portable Raman spectrometer, featuring a flexible fiber optic probe.

Renishaw released the StreamLineHR Rapid option for its inVia Raman microscope, enabling the fast collection of large amounts of Raman data.

ABB introduced the MB3600-CH70 Polyol Analyzer, an FT-NIR spectrometer, featuring preloaded calibrations.

HORIBA Scientific released the XploRA PLUS Raman microscope, with an enhanced range of options and new software.

In March, Agilent Technologies introduced the 4300 Handheld FTIR spectrometer, available with a DTGS IR detector or an MCT detector and five sample interfaces.

Bruker introduced a wide-range option for the VERTEX 70 Series FTIR spectrometers. Consisting of the MIR-FIR DLaTGS detector combined with a MIR-FIR beamsplitter, the option allows the spectrometers to cover the complete mid- and far-IR/THz spectral ranges in one step without the need for any beamsplitter or detector exchange.