ASD is a company confident in its future. The combination of the firm’s portable instruments, application experience and two decades in natural resource management, as well as high natural resource commodity prices, has boosted its management team’s confidence that its compound annual growth rate will be above 25% over the next five years—perhaps higher, if […]
Company Announcements Ocean Optics named Kevin Chittim president in September, replacing Robert Randelman, who was promoted to divisional chief executive for parent company Halma. Mr. Chittim previously served as CEO of Labsphere, another Halma company. In October, Avacta extended its distribution agreement with Pall to include Southeast Asia. Product Introductions Picarro introduced the field-portable L2130-i […]
UV/Vis/NIR spectroscopy is a subset of the half-billion dollar UV/Vis spectroscopy market and is used widely across applications in the semiconductor and electronics industry. Despite the fact that only a handful of vendors dominate the market, the applications for which UV/Vis/NIR is used are experiencing strong growth that will help to drive growth in demand. […]
Company Announcements In September, Agilent and the Agilent Technologies Foundation gave Professor Gerhard Wanger at Harvard Medical School an Agilent Thought Leader Award totaling $373,000 over three years in support of his work using high-magnetic field NMR to analyze large proteins. The award will help him develop fast and efficient assignment methods for large proteins […]
AstraNet Systems is a small company that has been able to achieve big results by applying a core technology to different applications. The UK-based company designs, manufacturers and markets standard and customized spectrophotometers, fluorimeters, radiometers and reflectance probes, all based on fiber optic–coupled CCD-array (FOC-CCDA) technology. AstraNet systems are used in life science labs, in […]
The Woodlands, TX 10/13/11; San Jose, CA 10/13/11—Rigaku Americas has acquired BaySpec’s handheld Raman technology and products lines for an undisclosed amount. Rigaku will form a new division, Rigaku Raman Technologies, for R&D, engineering, production, marketing and distribution of the products. The first products will be the FirstGuard and Xantus series, which cover the sample […]
It is just six months since Pittcon, and IBO’s last review article on new product introductions (see IBO 3/31/11, 4/15/11), and already there is a new and lengthy list of notable new products. In this article, IBO highlights some of the product launches of the last six months based on their potential commercial and technical […]
Ellipsometry is a spectroscopic technique used to measure dielectric properties of thin films. Spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE), in particular, can provide a wealth of information. The rapid development of a number of industries in which SE is used is helping to drive growth in what is a fairly competitive instrument market. Ellipsometry is the analysis of […]
Company Announcements XiGo Nanotools named DKSH its exclusive representative for Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia. In May, Perten Instruments established a sales and service operation in Rome, Italy. Malvern Instruments entered into a development and licensing agreement for Paraytec’s ActiPix UV area imaging technology. Malvern gained exclusive rights to develop, market and sell the technology […]
It may not yet be a household name like competitors Bruker or JASCO, but BioTools is holding its own, thanks to a risky investment ten years ago. The firm was incorporated in 2000 with the goal of commercializing vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) and Raman optical activity (ROA) spectrometers. “We were the first company to commercialize […]
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