Artifex Engineering introduced the IRS-E series of mid-IR spectrometers for industrial metrology. Process Systems Enterprise released a suite of software facilities and services for high-fidelity modeling of batch, semibatch and continuous pharmaceutical operations. Thermo Fisher Scientific launched the CB Omni PGNAA analyzers for the composition analysis of raw materials in the cement manufacturing process. Thermo […]

Endress+Hauser acquired a majority share in its Romanian distributor Romconseng. Endress+Hauser’s Conductam industrial liquid analysis business named Dr. Manfred Jagiella, previously head of Sensors for Balluff, managing director. Endress+Hauser’s 2006 sales increased 11.3% to €985.2 million ($1.2 billion) (see IBO 7/15/07). Asian Pacific sales rose 20%, European sales grew 10.4%, North and South American sales […]

A consistent need in a variety of market sectors, including security, environmental research and quality assurance and control is to be able to achieve laboratory-quality results in the field. IBO’s Portable Instrument Industrial Design Award acknowledges manufacturers’ success in solving the various challenges inherent to providing a portable version of a technique, and placing that […]

Chalfont St. Giles, England 4/16/07—GE Healthcare has acquired Wave Biotech, a supplier of disposable manufacturing technologies, including the Wave bioreactor, Wave Mixer and Sterile Tube Fuser. Financial details were not disclosed. Based in Somerset, New Jersey, with approximately 70 employees, Wave Biotech has annual revenues of $25 million and its equipment is used at over […]

In January, implementation management company Expo Technologies acquired SpectrAlliance, which provides PAT (the FDA’s Process and Analytical Technology initiative) focused software, including NovaPAC. Yokogawa Electric appointed Shuzo Kaihori, director and senior vice president of the Industrial Automation Business, representative director and president effective April 1. President Isao Uchida was named chairman. Under a partnership agreement, […]

Metrohm introduced the Process Lab, which can be customer configured. It combines analytical modules, such as pH, redox, conductivity and titration, and allows for the integration of third-party equipment. Brimrose launched the inline Luminar 4030 Miniature Free Space Process AOTF-NIR analyzer. Endress+Hauser introduced the Oxymax W COS21D series of digital dissolved oxygen (DO) sensors. Thermo […]

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 […]

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 […]