Company Announcements

Phenomenex voluntarily dismissed its complaint against Thermo Fisher Scientific (see IBO 12/31/09).

UK-based Hichrom acquired Beckman Coulter’s Ultrasphere HPLC column product family.

Chiral Technologies Europe signed a distribution agreement with Hichrom for the UK.

Armen Instruments sold its flash chromatography business to Interchim in January.

BAC BV added a new bioprocess affinity chromatography ligand to GE Healthcare’s range of custom designed media for the purification of alpha-1 antitrypsin.

In March, Repligen acquired the assets of BioFlash Partners, a producer of process chromatography columns, for $1.8 million, and milestone and royalty payments.

Product Introductions

Sigma-Aldrich Supelco launched the Ascentris Express Peptide ES-C18 LC column based on a new 160Å Fused-Core particle design, optimized for reversed-phase HPLC separations of peptides and polypeptides.

Waters released the new Protein-Pak Hi Res ion exchange columns for protein characterization for use with its ACQUITY UPLC system.

Waters launched an analytical size-exclusive chromatography (SEC) solution for monoclonal antibody aggregate analysis, consisting of the BEH200, 1.7 µm SEC columns and the ACQUITY UPLC System.

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments introduced the next-generation LC-20AP Preparative LC Pump with a high-pressure tolerance of 6,000 psi up to 100 mL/min. and 4,350 psi up to 150 mL/min.

Phenomenex released the Clarity Oligo-MS C18 columns for analysis of synthetic oligonucleotides, packed with 2.6 µm and 1.7 µm particles.

Phenomenex launched free chiral-screening services for customers in pharmaceutical and natural products R&D.

Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the Thermo Scientific Accela 1250 quaternary pump, designed to operate at a top pressure of 1250 bar with flow rates of up to 2mL/min.

Dionex released the Quaternary Micro Pump LPG-3400BM for microbore LC and the Dual-Gradient Micro Pump DGP-3600BM for multidimensional protein analysis and purification.

Dionex introduced the ProSwift SCX-1S monolith column for small-scale, fast protein separations.

Dionex released the Acclaim hydrophilic interaction LC column.

Agilent launched the Agilent 1200 Series Analytical Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC) System, which uses standard-grade carbon dioxide and has a dynamic range greater than 20,000. It combines Agilent’s 1200 Series Rapid Resolution LC with the Aurora SFC Fusion A5.