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 Pyrolyzer maker Frontier Laboratories opened its first US office in October 2010 in Antioch, California. The company is working with Diablo Analytical to assist its existing US distributors, Quantum Analytics and Shimadzu. Shimadzu announced in January that its GC-2010 Plus and GC-2014 systems can now be controlled in a Waters Empower Software environment. […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker’s S8 Dragon wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (WD-XRF) system combines a conventional array of wavelength detectors dedicated for elements of particular interest with a multielement energy dispersive detector (the Bruker XFlash, more commonly used for energy dispersive spectrometry [EDS] microanalysis) to provide simultaneous measurement of the remaining elements. A complete run takes […]
Micro and portable GCs are a distinct product market that is neither part of the large market for process GCs nor part of the mammoth market for laboratory benchtop GCs. Technological advancements have helped to enable the rise of the market for micro GCs, which are widely used in many hydrocarbon-related applications. The market’s competitive […]
The separations market performed well in 2010, recovering from an anemic 2009. The separations market accounted for 17% of the total analytical and life sciences instrumentation industry, increasing 5.8% to $6.6 billion in 2010. In the first half of 2010, the market experienced exceptional growth due to robust demand for new instruments. Some separations technologies […]
Company Announcements Dani and JEOL (Europe) BV announced an exclusive distribution agreement or the Benelux for their respective Master-TOF MS and JMST100GCv. INFICON’s third-quarter Emergency Response & Security sales declined 43% to CHF 4.3 million ($4.2 million) due to lower North American sales. Third-quarter revenue for the Agilent Micro GC business (see IBO 3/31/10) was […]
Company Announcements Six-month revenue for INFICON AG’s Emergency Response and Security segment rose 51.9% to CHF 11.7 million ($6.3 million), primarily due to military sales in Asia, to represent 8% of company sales. The company disclosed that it paid $3.5 million to acquire Agilent’s Micro GC business in May (see IBO 3/31/10). Alpha MOS announced […]
Billerica, MA 5/19/10—Bruker has completed the acquisition of Varian’s ICP-MS, laboratory GC and triple quadrupole–GC instrument product lines (see IBO 3/15/10), which make up the new Chemical Analysis Division (CAD), part of the Bruker Daltonics MS business (see IBO 4/15/10). More than 250 former Varian staff have joined Bruker as a result of the acquisition. […]
When one thinks of comprehensive GC (GCxGC) systems, Zoex is likely one of the first companies that comes to mind. The Texas-based company was established in 1993 as a result of the work of Edward B. Ledford, Jr., Zoex’s founder, with the inventor of GCxGC, John B. Phillips. Zoex is a premier provider of GC […]
Company Announcements SLS Micro Technology GmbH introduced the compact GCM Micro Box. Available in four models, it features the GCM 5000 micro GC module, which is a printed circuit board with an injector, thermal conductivity detector and fixed separation column. As part of a resale agreement, Alpha Omega Technologies, which supplies custom analyzers to the […]
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