Following each Pittcon (see IBO 3/15/16), IBO details the new products introduced at the show. These are products that began shipping in winter 2015 or later. Part 1 of this article appeared in the March 15 issue. The list is not all inclusive. Atomic Spectroscopy Alpha Resources displayed a new elemental analyzer from Eltra, the […]

Each year, IBO compiles a list of new products on display or introduced at Pittcon. New products are generally defined as those that started shipping since winter 2015 or later. More new products will appear in the March 31 issue. The list is not all inclusive. Atomic Spectroscopy SciAps announced new versions of its Z […]

Company Announcements Puridify, maker of the single-use FibroSelect purification technology, closed a £2.2 million ($3.4 million ) Series A funding round in October 2015, bringing the total raised, including grant funding, to £8 million ($12 million). Following a November 2015 agreement, ACCHROM Instrument Technologies will market an OEM version of DataApex’s Clarity Chromatography Software under […]

Microsaic Systems announced in September that it has OEM agreements in place with four companies, a distribution agreement with one company and Heads of Terms agreements with two other companies, one being Quantum Analytics for the US. Proteome Sciences reported that TMT reagent sales increased 13% for the six months ending June 30. SCIEX announced […]

Newark, DE 8/27/15—Analtech/iChromatography has been acquired by General Manager Steven C. Miles from the estates of Matt Lamkin and Kenneth Rainin, the company’s owners. Analtech manufactures TLC plates, and supplies HPLC columns, SPE columns and semiautomated sample application equipment. Discussing changes to the company’s product lines, Mr. Miles, who has been general manager since 2006, […]

Company Announcements In June, Agena Bioscience named KAWA.SKA and BioGen-Analytica as distributors for Poland and Russia, respectively. Waters named Taiwan-based Chang Gung University’s Health Aging Research Center as a Waters Centers of Innovation Program partner. Thermo Fisher Scientific announced a memo of understanding for research collaboration with Thailand’s National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, […]

Company Announcements BIA Separations appointed Hichrom as a UK distributor in March. In March, Thermo Fisher Scientific announced the listing of its Thermo Scientific Prelude LX-4 MD HPLC as a FDA Class 1 medical device for general clinical use. BIA Separations named new distributors: Medi Analytika for India, Guangzhou Bairui Medicine for China, Labena for […]

A single quadrupole MS (SQMS) system is a mass analyzer with one mass-filtering cluster. SQMS, particularly when paired with UHPLC, is a technique that is becoming more prevalent in routine food analyses, including the detection of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, pesticides and aflatoxins. Traditional methods of food analysis have typically used higher-performing instruments, such as LC/MS/MS […]