Company Announcements Alpha MOS exclusively licensed its micro-sensor patent portfolio for consumer goods applications, such as mobile phones and home appliances, to France Brevets, an investment fund specializing in commercializing patents. INFICON Emergency Response & Security sales declined 26.2% in the second quarter to $4.8 million, or 7% of total sales. In the third quarter, […]
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 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 […]
The convergence of highly capable instruments and the need for their performance in many applications is helping the market for TOF GC/MS (GC-TOF) to finally begin taking off. Despite a strong array of products from smaller MS competitors, the technology has now been validated in the eyes of many end-users thanks to the entrance of […]
IBO has made some minor changes to the separations market compared with last year’s forecast issue (see IBO 1/15/12). The overall market size and definition remain consistent, but how we account for a few categories has been updated. Perhaps the most obvious change is the addition of supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC), which was disaggregated from […]
Product Introductions Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced in September the addition of negative and positive ion chemical ionization capabilities, as well as direct insertion and direction exposure probe options, to its Thermo Scientific TSQ 8000 triple quadrupole GC/MS system. INFICON’s third-quarter Emergency Response & Security sales rose 23.4% to $5.8 million. Vernier Software & Technology released […]
Company Announcements DKSH agreed in April to exclusively distribute CDS Analytical products in Australia and New Zealand. INFICON’s second-quarter Emergency Response & Security sales grew 58.5% to $6.5 million Product Introductions LECO introduced in May a pulsed electron impact ionization source as an add-on option for its Pegasus GC-HRT system. It is designed to improve […]
Glycoscience assists in the development of new drugs and biofuels, but for greater benefits, advances in the field must occur, according to Transforming Glycoscience: A Roadmap for the Future, a report released earlier this month by the National Academy of Sciences. The report evaluates the current state of glycoscience research, notes its contributions and limitations, […]
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