Company Announcements

In July, Rigaku acquired Emerald Bio’s reagent and consumables business, including the Wizard screens, to broaden its solutions for protein crystallography.

GE Measurement & Control agreed in October to sell Thermo Fisher Scientific’s XL PMI, XL PMI+ and XL PMI+ Ultra handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) systems.This broadens GE’s non-destructive testing offerings for the oil, gas, and power generation and transportation industries.

In October, Agilent Technologies announced it will collaborate with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology to further the development of inorganic analytical technology, particularly inductively coupled plasma–MS.

In November, Dynasil sold the assets of its XRF Lead Paint Detector product line to PROTEC Instrument, the US subsidiary of its French distributor Laboratories PROTEC, for $1.1 million.

Product Introductions

In July, Oxford Instruments launched the benchtop Foundry-Master Xline optical emission spectrometer, which features Multi-CCD optics equipped with a vacuum chamber in order to cover the 165–780 nm.

In September, Oxford Instruments launched a portable, cordless arc/spark analyzer, the PMI-Master Smart, for metal analysis in hard-to-reach places.

In July, HORIBA Scientific introduced the Mesa 50 XRF analyzer. The successor to the XGT-WR series, it includes three analysis diameters.

HORIBA Scientific launched in November the portable SLFA-60 sulfur analyzer, with a measurement range twice that of previous models.

In July, Bruker released the S8 Tiger Eco XRF, the D8 Advance Eco X-ray diffraction (XRD) system and D8 Quest Eco X-ray chemical crystallography system. The new line minimizes resource consumption.

In July, Rigaku introduced the SmartStudio central software platform that simplifies X-ray analysis and acts as a centralized command center for operating its SmartLab X-ray diffractometer.

In August, Agilent Technologies launched the Eos S2, Atlas S2 and Titan S2 XRD CCD detectors with Smart Sensitivity Control, which offer active areas of 92 mm, 135 mm and 165 mm.

In September, Shimadzu introduced the EDX-7000 and EDX-8000 XRF systems. They feature high throughput and large sample chambers.

In September, Hitachi High-Tech Science launched the EA1000VX XRF analyzer system for analyzing hazardous substances, featuring reduced measurement times.

In October, PANalytical introduced the Epsilon 1 XRF for research and education. It provides a cost effective and easy-to-use solution.