Liquid Chromatography

Company Announcements

Teledyne Isco acquired in December 2015 the net assets of SofTA, a manufacturer of ELSDs for LC and flash chromatography.

DKK-TOA opened an office in South Korea in December 2015.

Repligen announced in February the extension of its long-term supply agreement with GE Healthcare through 2019 for the manufacture of Protein A ligands in Lund, Sweden. This aligns it with the company’s existing GE Healthcare long-term supply agreements, which runs through 2021, for production in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Repligen’s 2015 revenues rose 38.2% to $83.5 million due to increased volumes of affinity ligand and ATF products. GE Healthcare and MilliporeSigma accounted for 37% and 29% of revenues, respectively. Adjusted operating income grew 70.6% to $17.8 million.

In March, Postnova Analytics opened an office in Herefordshire, UK.

Product Introductions

Advanced Materials Technology introduced the HALO BioClass Fused-Core HPLC/UHPLC columns family designed for separation of peptides.

Restek introduced in December 2015 the rugged Roc HPLC columns, pressure rated for any 400 bar HPLC system. They are available with C18, C8, Phenyl-Hexyl, Cyano and bare silica phases on 3 µm or 5 µm spherical particles.

Restek released the Raptor FluoroPhenyl column, extending its Raptor column technology to HILIC mode.

In February, Waters introduced the CORTECS C8 and CORTECS Phenyl analytical columns, available in 1.6 µm and 2.7 µm particle sizes.

Gilson launched in February the VERITY 1810 conductivity and pH meter, which works with virtually any chromatography system.

Phenomenex introduced the Lux 3 µm Amylose-1 chiral columns, a Lux polysaccharide column for UHPLC, HPLC and SFC chiral screening and analysis.

GE Healthcare Life Sciences extended its ReadyToProcess bioprocessing chromatography columns, adding the cation exchange Capto S ImpAct chromatography medium, and the multimodal Capto MMC ImpRes and Capto adhere ImpRes media. Also, Sepharose High Performance media for ion exchange and hydrophobic interaction chromatography are now available in the ReadyToProcess column format.

MilliporeSigma introduced the Ascentis Express Biphenyl chromatography column for UHPLC and HPLC.

Shimadzu launched in March the Prominence UHPLC Ultra-Fast Preparative and Purification LC, featuring a single automated workflow utilizing on-line fraction trapping for improved efficiency of preparative fraction collection and purification workflows.

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