Company Announcements In December, the Alliance for Nanosystems VLSI, which was formed by the California Institute of Technology and CEA-Leti, launched Analytical Pixels. The company will design, manufacture and bring to market GC systems based on nanoelectromechanical system sensors. Product Introductions In October, Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the TraceGOLD GC Column with Safe Guard, which […]
Company Announcements In June, Boval Company, a manufacturer of cell culture and diagnostic biological raw materials, acquired Chata Biosystems, a supplier of custom solutions that specialized in HPLC media. Coloradoan.com reported that Boval acquired the name and instruments business, and that the remainder of the firm was renamed CHD Bioscience. In October, Novasep entered into […]
The 84th annual Water Environment Federation’s Annual Technical Exhibition and Conferences, more commonly known as WEFTEC, was held in Los Angeles, California, on October 15–19. Attendance declined 4.7% to 16,691 from last year’s show, which was held in New Orleans, Louisiana. The number of exhibiting companies also declined, falling 6.2% to 923. The exhibition was […]
It is just six months since Pittcon, and IBO’s last review article on new product introductions (see IBO 3/31/11, 4/15/11), and already there is a new and lengthy list of notable new products. In this article, IBO highlights some of the product launches of the last six months based on their potential commercial and technical […]
Company Announcements Advanced Chromatography Systems and its operating sister companies, Cambridge Scientific Instruments and Unicam Chromatography, in March introduced Ellutia as their new global brand and name. The Open University and Agilent UK launched in May the Agilent Center of Excellence in Comprehensive Chromatography. The Center provides instrument demonstrations, application development and method training. Product […]
Time-of-flight GC/MS (GC-TOF), which includes TOF and Q-TOF GC/MS systems, has long held potential to become a major GC market segment, but has not yet lived up to these expectations. While the technology has performance advantages, other factors have limited growth. However, a new competitor is poised to finally help the GC-TOF market breakout. Most […]
This month, Bruker introduced its first GC/MS product line, the SCION single quadrupole (SQ) and triple quadrupole (TQ) GC/MS systems. The systems are based on Varian’s GC/MS technology, which Bruker acquired last year (see IBO 3/15/10). Although the SCION GC/MS systems retain the unique 180 degree–curve collision cell design of the Varian 300 and 320 […]
Company Announcements In April, Showa Denko transferred its HPLC instrument business to Shoko Scientific and stated it will concentrate on its Shodex HPLC columns business. In April, Phenomenex opened an office in Hyderabad, India, for directly serving the Indian market. YMC announced in April the establishment of YMC Korea. In June, BAC announced a strategic […]
IBO has selected Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Orbitrap Elite as the product of the show for this year’s ASMS meeting. While Agilent’s 7200 Q-TOF GC/MS further expands the GC/MS market and Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Q-Exactive will undoubtedly have a strong impact on the mid-range LC/MS market, the Orbitrap Elite offers a dramatic performance improvement to what […]
Company Announcements DataApex opened its second European Clarity Training Center, which is run by RECIPE Chemicals + Instruments, in Munich, Germany, in January. Product Introductions GE Healthcare introduced Capto ImpRes ion exchange chromatography media for late-stage purification of a wide range of biomolecules. The first products to be launched are the Capto SP ImpRes strong […]
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