Liquid Chromatography
Company Announcements
Chiral Technologies signed a sales agreement with LEACSA for Mexico.
Dionex Executive Vice President and COO Kevin Chance resigned in October.
Proxeon appointed six new distributors: Proteomic Solutions for France, Rigas Labs for Greece, Biosense for Italy, Alpha Analytical for Singapore, Scientech for Taiwan and Scinco for South Korea.
Product Introductions
GL Sciences introduced Inertsil ODS-4 C18 columns, stating that they enable excellent peak shapes for both strong acidic and base compounds.
Advanced Chromatography Technologies (ACE) launched C18-AR columns, which leverage the selectivity of both C18 and phenyl in a single phase.
Teledyne Isco introduced the CombiFlash Torrent flash chromatography system, which can run at flow rates of up to 1 L/min. and can purify samples up to 300 g.
Dionex launched the UltiMate 3000RSLCnano system, which can deliver continuous, direct flow rates from 20nL/min. to 50 µL/min. at back pressures up to 11,600 psi for nano, capillary and micro LC analysis.
Dionex, DIA Instruments, a Mitsubishi Chemical subsidiary, and Cosa Instrument released a fully automated combustion Ion Chromatography (IC) system for the analysis of ionic contaminants in hard-to-analyze samples.
Dionex released the AFC-3000 Automated Fraction Collector.
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments introduced the Prominence Gel Permeation Chromatography System, which features enhanced baseline stability, solvent delivery and auto-validation.
PAC launched the ANTEK MultiTek system for the detection of sulfur, nitrogen and halides through a process that includes combustion IC, ultraviolet fluorescence and chemiluminescence technologies.
Agilent released the 1290 Infinity LC Injector HTS/HTC sample injection system for pressure capability at 1200 bar. It extends sample capacity to 24 cooled microwell plates or 648 cooled 2 mL vials.
MIP Technologies AB launched ExploraSep4Process, consisting of 130 different molecularly imprinted polymers and non-imprinted polymer phases distributed across four different types of chemical functionality to be used in a rapid screen format to discover new separation methods.
Sales/Orders of Note
The FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition purchased nine Waters ACQUITY Systems in October.
Dionex received an order for 52 ICS-3000 and 51 ICS-2100 systems from Japan’s National Police Agency.