AOAC International held its annual meeting and exposition from September 16 to 20 at the Hyatt Regency in Anaheim, California. The meeting’s return to California after a five-year absence appeared to have increased attendance. The AOAC reported 845 registered attendees, up from just over 800 last year, including about 230 international attendees. A number of […]
Supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) is experiencing a boom in demand that it never came close to reaching when it was first released. Thanks to technological advancements and general development of the technique, the potential of SFC is now being unlocked. While its initial popularity is associated with chiral separations, considerable potential remains for its use […]
Grace Davison Discovery Sciences released the VisionHT line of ultrahigh-pressure columns with a 12,000 psi pressure rating. They are compatible with all ultra high-pressure systems. Varian combined its Load & Lock column technology with the PLRP-S rigid polymeric reversed phase media from its Polymer Laboratories subsidiary for preparation and process chromatography. Varian introduced the VariPep […]
SofTA added Disruptive Technologies as a distributor of its evaporative light scattering detectors for France, Belgium and Switzerland. SofTA named California, US-based Bay Scientific as a distributor in April. Eksigent Technologies’ NanoLC HPLC product line is now distributed in the Benelux region by Separations Analytical Instruments BV. Serlabo Technologies now exclusively distributes Eksigent’s NanoLC HPLC […]
PerkinElmer launched the turnkey OneSource Laboratory Relocation service. Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the 3D Model Integrated Services Solution, a customized maintenance solution based on a detailed needs assessment. Agilent expanded its Enterprise Edition qualification program, enabling a single protocol to meet compliance requirements, to include GC, LC and MS systems.
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker AXS also unveiled some important x-ray components, such as the XFlash SDD detector that is now standard on the S2 Ranger and the new version of the MicroStar x-ray source. The MicroStar Ultra can provide a flux of 80 billion x-rays per square millimeter per second, similar to the performance of some […]
Company Announcements Germany’s Molnar-Institut acquired DryLab chromatography modeling software and the MethodMatch and ColumnMatch software from Rheodyne in 2006. Dionex established a European customer support center in 2006 in Olten, Switzerland. It joins the company’s other support centers in the US, China and Thailand. Dionex opened a new North American sales and service facility in […]
Simulated moving bed chromatography (SMB) is a variation of conventional liquid chromatography, which provides continuous chromatographic separations, as opposed to batch separations, which account for the majority of chromatography systems. For the most part, the use of SMB in the laboratory is tied to a narrow scope of industrial applications, for which it offers a […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker AXS, following the acquisition of Quantron (see IBO 9/15/06), released “Brukerized” versions of Quantron’s arc-spark instruments around the first of the year. The Q6 Columbus is a laboratory system, as is the Q8 Magellan, which is priced at about $65,000. The Q8 Coronado (based on the Magellan) is an automated system for […]
There were a number of changes to this month’s IBO stock table. A new stock index was created, the Diversified Instrumentation Stock Index, which consists of six large companies (Agilent Technologies, AMETEK, Danaher, Mettler-Toledo International, Roper Industries and Teledyne Technologies) that manufacture a wide variety of products, including analytical and life science instruments. Other changes […]
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