Wellington, New Zealand — Magritek, world leading providers of benchtop NMR and MRI instruments, announced that New Zealand institutional investor, Rangatira Limited, has increased its stake in the company Last year Rangatira, the Wellington-based investment company, acquired a 12% stake in Magritek for an undisclosed sum. As part of that transaction, Rangatira entered into a […]

RYE BROOK, N.Y. — Xylem Inc. today announced the appointment of Kelly McAndrew as Vice President of Global Public Affairs, effective immediately. She will report to Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer Angela Buonocore and will oversee global external communications efforts in support of the company’s corporate strategy, financial performance and key corporate issues. […]

Santa Barbara, CA – Anasys Instruments reports on the new AFM-IR results from the Energy Research Group at NIST just published in the journal for Advanced Optical Materials. The paper is entitled “Nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy of plasmonic modes with the PTIR technique.” 1 Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) […]

Loveland, Colo. — Hach Company (www.hach.com) is introducing an important and innovative new technology for the Drinking Water Industry, the Hach SL1000 Portable Parallel AnalyzerTM (PPA) platform. This analyzer is specifically designed and engineered to dramatically streamline water quality testing. The PPA platform offers faster testing of multiple parameters, greatly reduced variability from test to […]

Newark, Delaware –- B&W Tek, Inc., an advanced instrumentation company that delivers lab quality spectroscopy solutions through user-friendly mobile platforms, is pleased to offer custom solutions for LIBS applications. The Exemplar® and Exemplar® LS miniature spectrometers are already used in numerous applications such as kinetic reaction monitoring and transient spectral analysis, but both spectrometers prove […]

Perten Instruments announces the appointment of Michael Reimer as General Manager for Perten’s Canadian operations. Michael will be immediately tasked with opening a new office in the Winnipeg area. Mike brings extensive experience in the food and agricultural business. He worked in both the Oilseed and Pulse Research Labs at the Canadian Grain Commission and […]

FAIRFIELD, CT. –– GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt announced today the appointment of John Flannery as president and CEO of GE Healthcare succeeding John Dineen, who is leaving GE. The appointment is effective immediately. Flannery, 53, most recently was senior vice president of business development for GE. In the past year, Flannery led business […]

Effective August 4th 2014 , Metrohm Turkey has been officially established to become the official representation in Turkey of the Swiss Metrohm Group. Metrohm Turkey is the successor of Dr. Kimyager I. Yanco, the family owned business, which had represented Metrohm in Turkey for almost 30 years. Metrohm Turkey is headquartered in Istanbul and represents […]

Dunedin, Florida, USA -– Ocean Optics has introduced a new substrate for Raman spectroscopy applications. Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) substrates are highly sensitive, stable and reliable, delivering precise trace-level Raman spectroscopy measurement in applications ranging from chemical and explosive agent detection, to authentication, contaminant screening and quality control in production environments and the laboratory. […]