Company Announcements The Fraunhofer IBMT will develop new, customized applications for Magritek’s Kea NMR Mole System and will provide technical support for them in Europe. The companies will also work together on future developments of the system. Product Introductions Chenomx released Chenomx NMR Suite 5.0, a set of integrated software applications for performing NMR-based metabolomics. […]

Company Announcements Mut AG acquired 51% of tec5 AG in December 2007 for approximately €2.7 million ($3.7 million). Tec5’s estimated 2007 revenues are €5.5 million ($7.5 million). Aspectrics appointed Qwest Scientific Group its exclusive distributor for the Pacific Southwest and Pacific Northwest US. Aspectrics named Scientific Support Services as its exclusive UK and Irish distributor. […]

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 […]

There were certainly no lack of nominees for IBO’s choice of the top three product introductions at Pittcon 2008. In choosing the top three products, IBO selected systems that demonstrated notable technical achievements based on the vendor’s specifications, were innovative in their analytical approach and product packaging, and demonstrated real commercial potential. After all, the […]

The molecular spectroscopy market is as consistent as any segment of the entire analytical instrument market. Overall, the molecular spectroscopy market is expected to grow 6.3% in 2008, a scant 0.1% increase over the forecast for 2007. Furthermore, with the exception of Raman spectroscopy, which is the smallest of all molecular spectroscopy segments, no other […]

In September, DeltaNu appointed Gilden Photonics as its new distributor for the UK and Ireland. Polychromix signed a strategic investment and technology advancement agreement with In-Q-Tel. Scinco named Cosa Instruments the exclusive US distributor of its PDA UV/Vis spectrophotometers. Ocean Optics, a Halma company, promoted Rob Randelman, PhD, vice president of Sales and Marketing, to […]

Datacolor introduced the Spyder3Elite and Spyder3Studio display calibration and printer profiling solutions for photographers and digital imaging professionals. Camspec released the M108 programmable Vis spectrophotometer, the result of a design, production and supply partnership with a Chinese-American company. Sensor Technologies launched the three-channel, benchtop QuantumXpert fluorescence correlation spectrometer. Quantitech released the portable InfraCal Filtometer and […]

Pickering Laboratories, a producer of instruments and reagents for post-column analysis, demonstrates that one of the ways to develop a “killer app” is by having a major standards body mandate a testing method that includes its products. The company, located in San Jose, California, was founded by Michael Pickering in 1984. Post-column analysis takes place […]