Company Announcements

In August, Waters entered into a comarketing agreement with Restek for GC consumables. The partnership will serve food safety laboratories with training and applications support of GC/MS methods and workflows for pesticide monitoring and screening.

In September, Schauenburg Analytics, parent company of Markes International and SepSolve Analytical, officially opened new training facilities in Offenbach am Main, Germany.

Product Introductions

In August, JEOL launched the JMS-TQ4000GC, a GC triple quadrupole MS system, stating the system has fastest SRM switching speed in the industry at 1,000 channels/sec. The short collision cell technology enables both ion accumulation and pulsed ion ejection.

In September, Shimadzu introduced its GCMS NX Series GC/MS systems, consisting of three models: the GCMS-TQ8050 NX, GCMS-TQ8040 NX and GCMS-QP2020. The systems utilize the Nexis GC-2030 GC system and feature ease of maintenance.