New products across 10 categories

Moisture analyzers measure the moisture content of solids and liquids, as well as gases. These analyzers can measure trace and abundant amounts of moisture in wet or dry samples. There are a number of different technologies that these systems employ to obtain accurate moisture measurements. Loss-On-Drying (LOD) is a well-known and commonly used moisture analysis […]

Companies continue to sharpen their focus on integrated solutions and workflows to increase lab productivity and differentiate themselves in the marketplace. At this year’s Pittcon, IBO spoke with executives at MilliporeSigma, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) and Thermo Fisher Scientific. Each company has recently reorganized executive responsibilities to reflect an emphasis on the integration of workflow […]

After a five-year absence from Atlanta, Georgia, Pittcon returned to the city this year from March 6 to March 10. Attendance figures as of the end of the day on March 9 showed that conferee attendance declined 14.9% to 6,890. Exhibitor attendance was down 12.6% to 5,064. With Europe’s largest analytical instrument show, Analytica, taking […]

Lake Forest, IL 8/3/15; Vernon Hills, IL 8/18/15—IDEX Health and Science, part of fluid and metering technologies firm IDEX, has sold its Ismatic product line to lab product company Cole-Parmer for $28 million. Part of IDEX’s Scientific Fluidics Platform, the Ismatic business recorded 2014 revenues of $13 million. The independent channel control peristaltic pumps are […]

Atomic Spectroscopy PerkinElmer added to its PinAAcle series of atomic-absorption spectrometers. The 500 is a corrosion-resistant, flame-only system designed primarily for environmental applications that require robust performance, such as the mining and petrochemical industries. The system will begin shipping in June at a price in the low $20,000 range. Bruker introduced the S2 Puma as […]

This year, Pittcon was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from March 7 to March 12. Unfortunately, the location did not appear to help attendance. According to the preliminary figures available as of March 9, total attendance was down 15.8% from last year, when the location was Chicago, Illinois (see IBO 3/31/14), to 13,683. The number […]

Electrochemistry systems, lab balances, radioactivity-analysis systems, dissolution-testing equipment, and continuous-flow (CF) and discrete analyzers make up the market referred to as general analytical techniques (GAT). The markets for each of these lab techniques share several characteristics: routine usage, mid-to-low price ranges and a large share of replacement sales. Many diverse vendors participate in this market, […]