Beijing, China,– Waters Corporation formally announced collaborations with the China Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control (China CDC), Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control (BJCDC) and The Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to provide technology and expertise for food safety analysis and environmental regulatory compliance. […]

Dublin, California, – Eksigent, a leading provider of capillary HPLC systems and Phenomenex, Inc., one of the world’s largest manufacturers of HPLC columns, announce a strategic marketing and technology collaboration to develop columns optimized for capillary HPLC systems. Under the agreement, Phenomenex will offer a line of capillary HPLC columns that are tested and optimized […]

Dublin, Calif. – Eksigent Technologies, LLC, creator of advanced nanofluidic technologies for life science research and medical device applications, announced today that David Weber has joined the company as CEO, President and Director. Weber joins the company from San Diego-based Stratagene Corporation, where he was Vice President of Global Marketing and Business Development and member […]

ORLANDO, FLA.,– Thermo Electron Corporation, world leader in analytical instruments, offers its new Surveyor Plus Refractive Index and Surveyor Plus Fluorescence detectors designed to enhance chromatographers’ analytical capabilities when integrated with the Finnigan SurveyorTM PlusTM HPLC product line. As a result, both of these highly sensitive, low maintenance detectors enable chromatographers to run a greater […]

Milford, Massachusetts,Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) and Thermo Electron Corporation (NYSE: TMO) have entered into a collaborative agreement to provide greater integration and connectivity between the Waters® ACQUITY Ultra Performance LC™ (UPLC™) system and Thermo’s full range of innovative mass spectrometers (MS). These instruments include Thermo’s Finnigan™ TSQ Quantum™, LTQ™ Linear Ion Trap, LTQ FT™ Hybrid […]

Milford, MA -Waters has acquired VICAM’s food safety technology business and associated net assets. VICAM makes single-use test kits for detecting the presence of mycotoxin and microbiological organisms in food products as well as immunoaffinity columns for the isolation of contaminants for measurement by fluorometers, HPLC or LC/MS. “What initially attracted Waters to VICAM was […]

Minneapolis, MN —On February 26, MOCON completed the sale of the common stock of its Lab Connections subsidiary to LEAP Technologies for $517,296 in cash. MOCON anticipates an after-tax gain of $90,000 for the first quarter ending March 31. Lab Connections, which MOCON acquired in 1998 makes the LC-Transform product line for fraction collection prior […]

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the Agilent 1200 Series LC (liquid chromatography) system, replacing its market-leading 1100 Series LC. Used by more than 250,000 customers worldwide in applications from forensics to food safety, pharmaceuticals and protein research, LC is a measurement technology used to separate, identify, quantify and purify compounds. It represents a […]

PALO ALTO, Calif., — Varian, Inc. (Nasdaq: VARI) today introduced two new OMIX(R) micro extraction solid phase extraction (SPE) formats for bioanalytical research that deliver improved performance and a faster, more streamlined sample preparation process. The first enables vacuum-free SPE processing of biofluid samples directly in the tip of a popular liquid-handling device. The second […]