Company Announcements Under a cooperation agreement, Mikroglas chemtech placed its mikroSyn microreactor platform on Flowid’s Application Laboratory platform. Product Introductions Chemtrix introduced the Labtrix Start system, a manual plug-and-play platform for lab-based optimization of reactions within glass microreactors for performing syntheses at -15–195 °C and under pressures up to 25 b. Asynt launched the DrySyn […]

Company Announcements CEM formed a Japanese subsidiary with headquarters in Tokyo and an office in Osaka. The offices will begin operation this fall with approximately 10 employees. Bayer Technology Services named Dr. Joachim Heck as managing director of Ehrfeld Mikrotechnik BTS GmbH in March. He was formerly unit manager and a member of the management […]

Rockville, MD 8/12/10—OriGene Technologies has acquired Blue Heron Biotechnology, a gene synthesis company. “We are 100% committed to serving our customers with high-quality, strict confidentiality standards and improved business efficiency,” commented OriGene Chairman and CEO Dr. Wei-Wu He. “This latest purchase is a further indication of OriGene’s determination to expand its gene-centric tools portfolio for […]

Peptide synthesizers work by treating amino acids with reagents to protect functional groups on the molecule where reactions are not desired. Suitably activated amino acids are then added with various reagents. After synthesis, the completed peptide is cleaved from the resin for purification. Peptide synthesizers come in manual, semi-automated and fully automated formats. Manual synthesizers, […]

Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker introduced the Q2 ION at its Pittcon press conference. The Q2 ION is a compact benchtop arc-spark spectrometer. It is a cost-effective complement to handheld XRF for metals analysis at smaller foundries and recycling centers. The system is now available at a price of roughly $35,000. Following the success of its Terra […]

Company Announcements ThalesNano named three new distributors: PyNN for China, M.A.D. Technology for South Africa, and Superlab Instrumentacao Analitica for Brazil. Activotec will exclusively sell in Europe Creosalus‘s peptide synthesizers, including the Tetras, and chemical product range. Creosalus will exclusively sell Activotec’s synthesizers in the US and Canada. Syrris established a Brazilian subsidiary in São […]

Company Announcements ThalesNano appointed former New York Governor George Pataki to its Board of Advisors in September. ThalesNano named Donau Lab AG as a distributor for central Europe, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. In October, Sigma-Alrich announced a distribution agreement for ThalesNano’s complete line of approximately 400 CatCart catalyst products for flow chemistry. […]

Synthesizing organic compounds can be a long and tedious process. Traditional automated organic synthesizers incorporate heating blocks into specialized liquid handling workstations and can take several days for reactions to complete. In contrast, microwave systems employ microwave radiation as the heat source, which reduces the time for compound synthesis. Microwave-Assisted Organic Synthesis (MAOS) offers other […]

Company Announcements Biotage AB expanded its outsourcing collaboration with PartnerTech, which will take over most instrument manufacturing. Running initially through 2011, the agreement is worth approximately SEK 40 million ($5 million) annually. Manufacturing will be relocated from Charlottesville, Virginia, to Åtvidaberg, Sweden. Syrris reported 80% growth in the first half of 2009. Syrris incorporated its […]