Company Announcements

Bio-Works agreed to provide agarose-based chromatography gels for use with Knauer GmbH’s BioFox line of separations columns for protein purification. Bio-Works will provide prepacked columns and bulk media.

PAC and Metrohm are working together to develop combustion IC applications using their respective MultiTek and IC systems.

Product Introductions

Gilson launched the PLC 2020 Personal Purification System with interchangeable pump heads for flow rates of 25 mL/min at 4600 psi, 50 mL/min at 2100 psi and 100 mL/min at 1200 psi. It features electronically actuated manual injections of up to 10 mL volumes and variable dual wavelength UV/Vis detection.

Waters introduced Empower Driven Services, a service program that provides analytics for enterprise-level decisions regarding lab utilization.

Waters launched the ACQUITY UPLC H-Class Method Development System that automates method development according to Quality-by-Design guidelines.

Waters released Charged Surface Hybrid (CSH) C18, CSH Fluoro-Phenyl and CSH Phenyl-Hexyl chemistries for ACQUITY CSH and XSelect HPLC columns for improved performance using acidic, low ionic strength mobile phases.

Merck KGaA released the anion exchanger Eschmuno Q biochromatography resin for the purification of recombinant products and blood plasma during production.

Merck KGaA introduced Plug n’ Flow technology, prepacked chromatography columns for the ion exchange resins of the Fractogel and Eshmuno product lines.

Phenomenex released the Lux Cellulose-4 and Cellulose-3 polysaccharide-based Lux Columns for HPLC/supercritical fluid chromatography chiral separations, bringing the number of unique Lux phases to five.

Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the Hypersil GOLD HILIC (hydrophilic interaction LC) column range for the retention of high polar compounds.

Dionex launched the CarboPac SA10 column, which is specifically designed for the analysis of biofuel, food and beverage, and beverage carbohydrates.

Dionex released the MAbPac SEC-1 column for monoclonal antibody separations and the MAbPac SCX-10 column for the analysis of monoclonal antibodies.

Dionex introduced the Acclaim Phenyl-1 column line, which offers both high aromatic selectivity and high hydrophobic retention.

Dionex released the UltiMate 3000 NCP-3200RS nano/capillary LC pump module for direct flow rates from 20 nL/min to 50 µL/min at back pressures up to 800 bar.

Biotage launched the AFFINILUTE MIP (molecularly imprinted polymers) columns for analytical sample preparation.