Company Announcements Nanophoton announced in September that a Japanese intellectual-property high court upheld a lower-court decision rejecting Renishaw’s claims on patents related to Raman microscopy systems (see IBO 12/15/10). In September, Edinburgh Instruments added in direct sales support for the US. Perten Instruments opened an office in Winnipeg, Canada, in October. In November, Metrohm announced […]
With more than $200 million in sales last year, Austrian firm Anton Paar has a long history of manufacturing analytical instruments for several product markets. This breadth is not common among companies of its size, and its instruments range from materials characterization to molecular spectroscopy to process analytics systems. The company’s high proportion of R&D […]
Company Announcements In October, investment firm Rangatira increased its stake in Magritek from 12% to 18%. Product Introductions Magritek introduced in July Spinsolve Phosphorus, calling it the world’s first phosphorus-31–capable benchtop NMR spectroscopy system. Oxford Instruments and Green Imaging Technologies launched the P5 Cell for high-pressure and -temperature studies of petroleum-reservoir rock core plugs. It […]
Santa Clara, CA 10/14/14—Agilent Technologies has announced that it is closing its NMR business because the business has not met growth or profitability objectives. Agilent entered the NMR market in 2010 with the acquisition of Varian (see IBO 7/31/09). “Today’s announcement represents a difficult decision necessary to drive improved profitability,” stated Agilent President, COO and […]
Company Announcements Trinean named Chris van Ingen, a director at Bruker, Promega and ProteinSimple, to its Board in May. Sigma-Aldrich SAFC Commercial’s solid-state R&D business, Pharmorphix, entered into a collaborative technology agreement with BioTools. Rabo Capital acquired Kipp & Zonen, a provider of instruments for measuring solar radiation and atmospheric properties, in May. CEO Ben […]
Optical density is a measure of the amount of light a sample absorbs. Not indicating the optical nature of their analysis, the instruments that measure this property are known as densitometers. Typical samples are printed graphics, and photographic and radiological films. A densitometer contains a light source—usually of white light, but UV can also be […]
The winners of IBO’s portable analytical instrument design awards are products that are not only compact and stylish but address the unique challenges of doing analyses outside of the laboratory. A portable instrument is defined as one that is battery powered and is designed to be transported and used outside of a lab. Gold Award […]
FOSS 2013 sales rose 1.2%, 6% organically, to DKK 1,760 million ($313 million) (see IBO 3/15/14). Nanounity agreed to distribute HybriScan Technologies’ Raman spectrometers, which are designed for integration with SEMs. In April, Trinean entered into a manufacturing and supply agreement with Sony DADC for the production of disposables for storage and microcuvette analysis. Product […]
Company Announcements Freiberg Instruments, a provider of inline metrology solutions, announced in January the acquisition of German firm Magnettech, a supplier of electron spin resonance (ESR) systems. Dr. Kay Dornich succeeded Dr. Eberhard Friese as CEO, but Dr. Friese will remain with the company. More than 300 of Magnettech’s MS 400 ESR/EPR systems are installed […]
The production of light is achieved in two primary ways. Incandescent objects give off light due to their high temperature. If temperature is not involved, the production of light is known as luminescence. Luminescence itself can come about in different ways, but in the lab, one of the primary phenomena of interest is chemiluminescence, the […]
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