First-half 2007 revenues for Inficon AG Emergency Response and Security decreased 7.6% to $8.5 million to make up 7% of total company sales. Photovac named four new representatives: A.J. Abrams Company for New England, New York and northern New Jersey; Brewer & Associates for the Pacific Northwest; Alpha Solutions for Minnesota, North Dakota and South […]
Thermo Fisher Scientific launched the TurboTox GC/MS Productivity Solution for drugs of abuse testing. It consists of the DSQ II single quadrupole GC/MS, ToxLab 2.0 software, and methods and consumables. AC Analytical Controls introduced the AC All in One Biodiesel analyzer, featuring an Agilent 7890A GC. Phenomenex introduced Zebron ZB-5Msi GC columns for separation of […]
The metabolome is the full set of metabolites—the chemical fingerprints left behind by cellular processes—in an organism. The pharmaceutical industry is particularly interested in the potential of metabolomics research, because metabolites can serve as biomarkers for disease states and drug efficacy, and they can reveal toxicity during the drug discovery process. Metabolomics offers instrument manufacturers […]
Due to the impending landfall of Hurricane Humberto in the United States, oil refineries in the affected region went off-line, sending oil prices over $80 per barrel for the first time in history. Although the price has since fallen, this and related incidents will no doubt continue to generate interest in both traditional and alternative […]
SRI Instruments, located in Torrance, California, began life in 1985 as Scientific Repair Inc. CEO and President Hugh Goldsmith, a former employee of PerkinElmer, started the company in his garage, repairing GCs and HPLCs. After some years repairing and creating spare parts for these instruments, Mr. Goldsmith began making inexpensive GCs, and was able to […]
PerkinElmer launched four application-specific Biodiesel GC Turnkey Systems for verifying pure biodiesel. Phenomenex released the Zebron ZB-5HT Inferno GC column, calling it “the world’s first nonmetal 55% phenyl-dimethylspolysiloxange phase stable to 430º C.” Varian introduced the Select Biodiesel for Glycerides UltiMetal capillary GC column. Agilent released the GS-OxyPLOT (Porous Layer Open Tubular) capillary GC column […]
INFICON’s Emergency Response & Security reported 2006 sales decreased 15.7% to $18.3 million to make up 9% of the total company’s revenues. Torion Technologies named Douglas W. Later, PhD, president and CEO last year. He was previously senior market development manager and director of corporate marketing for Dionex. Ion Signature developed a customized version of […]
Although the range of new product introductions at this year’s ASMS meeting did not match the scale or scope of last year, there were still a number of significantly new mass spectrometers and related products that will no doubt have a major impact on the mass spectrometry market. The most common theme among these new […]
IBO has selected LECO’s new TruTOF HT as the best new product from this year’s ASMS meeting in Indianapolis. Although the aesthetics of this new GC-TOF mass spectrometer are quite subdued, everything else about the new system is to the contrary. For starters, the system is a benchtop design, comparable in size to the only […]
The recent news of the presence of the industrial chemical melamine in US pet food and diethylene glycol in Central American toothpaste has heightened concern over the chemical contamination of imported products. Chinese toothpaste has been linked to the deaths of 51 people in Panama last year. Pet food made with melamine, contained in mislabeled […]
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