Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker AXS, following the acquisition of Quantron (see IBO 9/15/06), released “Brukerized” versions of Quantron’s arc-spark instruments around the first of the year. The Q6 Columbus is a laboratory system, as is the Q8 Magellan, which is priced at about $65,000. The Q8 Coronado (based on the Magellan) is an automated system for […]

There were a number of changes to this month’s IBO stock table. A new stock index was created, the Diversified Instrumentation Stock Index, which consists of six large companies (Agilent Technologies, AMETEK, Danaher, Mettler-Toledo International, Roper Industries and Teledyne Technologies) that manufacture a wide variety of products, including analytical and life science instruments. Other changes […]

Company Announcements Under a 2006 asset purchase agreement, Advanced Chromatography Systems acquired the EZ Flash II GC accessory and the TEA analyzer organic nitrogen detection from assets of Thermo Fisher Scientific. PerkinElmer partnered with Ion Signature Technology (IST) to offer IST’s Ion Signature Quantitative Deconvolution Software to users of its Clarus 600 GC/MS. GOW-MAC Instruments […]