Although its application to pharmaceutical manufacturing is a relatively recent development, one of the earliest applications for Simulated Moving Bed (SMB) chromatography was in the petrochemical industry. The use of SMB chromatography in the petrochemical industry goes back several decades. The technique, which offers a method for continuous chromatography, is useful for large-scale separation of […]
The market for analytical instruments used in the environmental testing sector is currently undergoing slower growth in reaction to global economic conditions. In coming years, the highest levels of sales growth are expected for techniques that make up only a small percentage of the market. In 2010, the environmental analysis instrument market is expected to […]
Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC) is not only a burgeoning analytical technique, but is developing into a significant tool for purification applications. The inherent qualities of the SFC technique, combined with recent technological improvements, now make it a viable commercial separation method. Although it is still a niche product, purification SFC has a large unrealized potential. […]
Company Announcements Under a resale agreement announced in June, LEAP Technologies will be able to incorporate PerkinElmer’s UHPLC and HPLC technology into front-end automation systems for MS within the US and Canada. In July, Eksigent Technologies announced plans to increase its manufacturing capacity by 40%. In August, W. R. Grace & Co.’s Grace Davis Discovery […]
Company Announcements Waters announced in January it made a $6 million payment for damages and fees, following a French appeals court’s upholding of a ruling that the company had infringed a patent held by Agilent Technologies GmbH. Waters is appealing the decision. Tosoh Bioscience NV, the Belgium-based European sales and distribution arm of Tosoh Bioscience, […]
Company Announcements Chromatide announced further investments by Enterprise Ventures and Alliance Fund Managers. GE Healthcare is collaborating with Celestial Biologicals to set up India’s first GMP-compliant fully integrated chromatography-based plasma fractionation facility. The facility is based in Ahmedabad. Agilent is providing technical support for the development of Aurora SFC Systems’ Fusion A5, which converts HPLC […]
Microfluidics, or lab-on-a-chip systems, have been somewhat pigeonholed as being a technology for capillary electrophoresis, particularly with the success of the Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer and Caliper Life Sciences’ LabChip products. However, the use of microfluidic technology in LC has grown rapidly during the past several years. Agilent introduced the first chip-based LC/MS system in 2005, […]
Since last fall, labs worldwide have struggled to cope with a shortage of acetonitrile (ACN), the most commonly used organic solvent for LC mobile phase. Companies supplying LC products have responded with information, support and solutions for end-users looking to conserve the now precious chemical compound, for which prices have skyrocketed. ACN suppliers’ measures have […]
This year is shaping up to be a big one for Restek. In January, the company, which has provided chromatography columns and accessories since 1985, became 100% employee owned. Restek now runs under an employee stock ownership program. In February, Restek opened its first Asian office in Tokyo, Japan. Due to the change in ownership, […]
Growth in 2008 for the separations market was nearly two percentage points lower than the original forecast estimates (see IBO 1/15/08) due, in part, to the weakened third and fourth quarters marked by the global financial crisis. In 2008, the separations market accounted for $6.6 billion in revenues and grew 6.6% over 2007. For 2009, […]
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