Company Announcements Shimadzu Scientific Instruments is now distributing SEDERE’s SEDEX 80LT and SEDEX 85LT evaporation light scattering detectors in the US. In September, Thermo Fisher Scientific opened a 12,000-square-foot facility in Reinach, Switzerland, which consolidates the Flux Instruments and Spectronex product lines. In December, MIP Technologies AB entered into a collaboration with sanofi-aventis to develop […]
The HPLC aftermarket accounts for more than 40% of the total HPLC market worldwide and is an important component of the market’s total growth. The majority of the HPLC aftermarket consists of HPLC columns. Although Waters and Agilent may dominate the HPLC system market, it is another company that leads the HPLC column market. Founded […]
The addition of the chemical melamine to Chinese dairy products has caused more than 10 infant deaths worldwide and over 50,000 children in China to be hospitalized. Melamine in itself is not harmful, but when levels are high enough, it can cause crystals to form in the liver, leading to renal failure. This scandal comes […]
Company Announcements Kromasil announced earlier this year that it stopped selling analytical bulk material to independent column packers and is now only using a network of distributors. In September, Chromatide partnered with Kromasil, an Akzo Nobel brand, to develop silica-based HPLC media with an emphasis in the area of chiral purification. YMC opened an office […]
Artel was founded in 1982 as an electro-optics contract manufacturer for customers with defense-standard requirements. It was only later that the company introduced its first product utilizing its signature technology, ratiometric photometry. The Pipette Calibration System employs ratiometric photometry, which is based on taking absorbance ratio readings from two standardized dyes at the same time, […]
When scientists bring up the subject of liquid chromatography (LC), complexity and high cost are two things that immediately come to the mind. While LC has proven to be a very useful analytical technique in the laboratory, as well as being advantageous in selected preparative and production-scale applications, it is an extremely involved technique that […]
Company Announcements Nacalai USA and Nano-C are developing an industrial-scale HPLC technology for the production of fullerenes and their chemical derivatives. Waters is integrating its Empower 2 software with ESA Bioscience’s Corona Charged Aerosol Detector. Hitachi High-Technologies and Waters agreed to develop and distribute an interface for Waters’ Empower 2 software and Hitachi’s LC systems. […]
New Orleans, Louisiana, played host to the 59th annual Pittsburgh conference and exhibition (Pittcon), which was held March 1–7 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Although Pittcon took place against a backdrop of escalating fears of a US recession, one would have never known it. Companies were upbeat about future business prospects and the […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Applitek, a Belgian firm, debuted the eXaminer a portable/handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) instrument, which should begin shipping in August or September at a “competitive” price. In November 2007, Brooks Rand began shipment of the Merx methyl mercury system, which uses GC and its AFS mercury analyzer to make a direct measurement of methyl […]
Sepax Technologies is constructing a 100,000 sq. ft. Chromatography Science building in Changzhou, China to be completed in June 2008 for the production of columns, silica chemistry, polymer resin, bulk media and instruments, as well as for research of natural product separations and Chinese medicine. On January 1, Seika Corporation of America changed its name […]
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