Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, extracts natural gas from underground shale by drilling vertically and then horizontally and injecting water, chemicals and proppants under high pressure into the well to release the trapped gas. According to the Energy Information Administration, US production of shale gas increased from 1,990,145 million cubic feet (mcf) in 2007 to 8,500,983 […]
Company Announcements INFICON’s first quarter Emergency Response & Security sales fell 35.5% to $5.5 million to make up 8% of company sales due to low shipments to Asia. In June, IonSense and Cerno Bioscience announced the integration of their respective DART GSX system and MassWorks software. The companies will comarket the product. Under an OEM […]
Company Announcements Diba named Kinesis the exclusive distributor of its OmniSep columns. In April, ASI and Chromatan announced an exclusive agreement to combine development, sales, marketing and manufacturing efforts to bring Continuous Countercurrent Tangential Chromatography, a continuous single-use and column-free purification technology, to market. Shimadzu announced in April that Waters Empower chromatography data system (CDS) […]
Company Announcements In February, JSR and ChromaCon announced a strategic partnership under which JSP will develop and provide purification media, with Amsphere Protein A as the base material, optimized for ChromaCon’s Multicolumn Countercurrent Solvent Gradient Purification process. JSR also gained a minority equity interest in ChromaCon. Product Introductions Phenomenex introduced in January the 1.3 µm […]
Company Announcements SISCAPA Assay Technologies appointed Ian Wright, former head of the Strategic Innovation group at Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, and Gustavo “Gus” Salem, former vice president and general manager of LC/MS at Agilent, to its Board in January. Thermo Fisher Scientific and the National University of Singapore’s Environmental Research Institute formed a collaboration to study […]
Company Announcements INFICON Emergency Response & Security revenue rose 56.3% to $28.6 million in 2012 to make up 10% of company sales, driven by North American and Chinese sales. Product Introductions Shimadzu introduced the HS-20 Series of headspace samplers for analyzing volatile compounds in a difficult matrix. It consists of the Loop model for static […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker debuted the Aurora Elite inductively coupled plasma (ICP)–MS, a high-performance sibling to its existing Aurora M90. The improved ion optics and fast electronics increase the sensitivity of the system, and Bruker considers it the most sensitive single quadrupole ICP-MS on the market. The base price is $178,000, though a complete system with […]
Hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) is a variation of normal-phase LC. It has a similar elution profile to normal-phase chemistry in that analytes elute in the order of increasing polarity. However, the difference is that normal-phase methods use an entirely organic solvent mixture, while HILIC employs an aqueous-organic solvent blend. HILIC HPLC columns are typically packed […]
As the first company to offer 2.7 µm superficially porous particle columns for HPLC, Advanced Materials Technology (AMT) has quickly grown. Founded as a two-person operation in Delaware in 2005, today, the company employs more than 20 people, including eight scientists in analytical chemistry, chemical engineering and biochemistry. The company exclusively manufactures HPLC columns utilizing […]
Company Announcements Phenomenex and ChromaDex announced a collaboration agreement to provide solutions, consisting of a combination of reference standards, methods and application support, for dietary supplements. NovaSep named Patrick Glaser, head of the Synthesis division, president and CEO, effective October 1, 2012. SiliCycle opened a Chinese office in November 2012. Product Introductions AB SCIEX introduced […]
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