Shimadzu Corporation (head office: Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan, President: Akira Nakamoto) established a wholly owned subsidiary Shimadzu Latin America S.A. (SLA) in the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (Uruguay hereinafter) in order to strengthen the company’s sales and distribution of analytical and measuring instruments and medical systems and also provide better support for customers and distributors in […]

PITTSBURGH, PA , November 7, 2013 – ChemImage Corporation, a leading provider of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) technology, has announced an educational collaborative partnership with the Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute (FNSSI) in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. The partnership focuses on providing students with an opportunity to work directly with HSI technology […]

TEWKSBURY, Mass. — Pharmaceutical manufacturers and regulatory agencies around the world can use a new, cost-effective handheld Raman analyzer to quickly identify raw materials and confirm the authenticity of finished products. The Thermo Scientific TruScan GP offers pharmaceutical identification capabilities for pharmaceutical manufacturers in emerging markets. “Our objective is to provide reliable chemical identification to […]

Belfast — Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, today announced the launch of its new Spectroscopy detection solutions based on the high throughput imaging Holospec spectrograph. The Volume Phase Holographic (VPH) grating-based Holospec offers up to seven times better collection power than traditional 1/3rd m Czerny-Turner spectrograph with […]

Hamamatsu, Japan – Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. has developed the world’s smallest “fingertip size” micro-spectrometer (part number: C12666MA), an ultra-compact, lightweight and low-cost device which, according to Hamamatsu’s research, provides nearly the same performance as Hamamatsu’s MS series mini-spectrometer while being roughly half its size. The new micro-spectrometer offers measurement in the visible wavelength range, and […]

HOLLISTON, Mass.– Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq:HBIO) became a pure-play global developer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad range of tools to advance life science research on November 1, 2013. This development resulted as the previously announced spin-off of its former wholly owned regenerative medicine device subsidiary, Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology, or HART, was completed as […]

HOLLISTON, Mass. — Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq:HBIO), a global developer, manufacturer, and marketer of a broad range of tools to advance life science research and regenerative medicine, announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Jeffrey A. Duchemin, has been appointed by the Board of Directors to the additional positions of President and Director, effective immediately. He […]

Acton, Massachusetts – Princeton Instruments is pleased to announce that the award-winning IsoPlane spectrograph has been used in recent, groundbreaking research in single-molecule tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy by the Van Duyne group at Northwestern University. Sonntag et al., “The Origin of Relative Intensity Fluctuations in Single-Molecule Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy,” has recently been accepted for publication by […]

WALTHAM, Mass.— PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader in improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today introduced the DairyGuard™ milk powder analyzer, a near infrared (NIR) spectrometer specifically developed for food suppliers and manufacturers. DairyGuard is the only system available that tests for unknown adulterants as well as known compounds, such as […]

CHELMSFORD, MA – ASTM International approved Test Method D7889, “Standard Test Method for Field Determination of In-Service Fluid properties using IR Spectroscopy.” The approval represents official confirmation that the FluidScan® handheld infrared oil analysis technology from Spectro Inc. meets ASTM guidelines for the analysis of in-service lubricants. The FluidScan method provides direct, immediate measurement of […]