Company Announcements

Agilent and Universiti Putra Malaysia announced in April a collaboration to strengthen Malaysia’s research capabilities for halal food products. Agilent will provide a 6490 triple quadrupole LC/MS system.

In April, Waters selected the Irish National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training and Professor Pauline Rudd for its Centers for Innovation Program.

AB SCIEX announced in April a distribution agreement with Cluster for Serbia and Macedonia.

In May, Prosolia licensed from AB SCIEX a portfolio of sample introduction and ionization methods based on the liquid micro-junction surface sample probe approach.

AB SCIEX and PREMIER Biosoft announced a comarketing and reseller agreement in May for lipidomics.

Advion named Yair Technologies its exclusive Israeli distributor in April.

In May, Microsaic signed an OEM agreement with an international supplier for an initial minimum quantity of 100 units during the first 30 months.

Thermo Fisher Scientific announced in May that it expects sales of its Q Exactive MS system to reach more than $100 million in 2012.

Proteome Sciences announced that 2011 sales of its TMT isobaric mass-tag reagents grew 53%.

Product Introductions

AB SCIEX released the MS/MSALL with SWATH Acquisition technique, which systematically fragments all components of a sample through a rapidly moving selection window, for use with the TripleTOF 5600 System.

In May, Waters announced three new UNIFI software solutions: the Waters Screening Platform, the Waters Pesticide Screening Application and the Waters Metabolite Identification Application. They will begin shipping in the fourth quarter.

Waters released new software packages for the SYNAPT G2-S MS: HDMS Compare visualization software for rapid binary comparisons of samples and High Definition Imaging software for MALDI imaging.

Waters and Nonlinear Dynamics released the TransOmics Informatics for its ACQUITY I Class and nanoACQUITY UHPLC and SYNAPT MS systems. It is aimed at harmonizing proteomics and metabolomics workflows. The first units will ship in the fourth quarter.

For its Elite and Q Exactive MS systems, Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced new software in May: SIEVE 2.0 for increased throughput during metabolite and protein biomarker discovery; ExactFinder 2.0 for improved analysis time in food safety testing; and Protein Deconvolution software to fully leverage high-resolution/accurate mass data during complex protein analysis.

Shimadzu launched the Accurate Glycan Analyzer 2 for the analysis of complex branched glycans, featuring the AXIMA Resonance QIT-TOF MS system.