Company Announcements

Diba named Kinesis the exclusive distributor of its OmniSep columns.

In April, ASI and Chromatan announced an exclusive agreement to combine development, sales, marketing and manufacturing efforts to bring Continuous Countercurrent Tangential Chromatography, a continuous single-use and column-free purification technology, to market.

Shimadzu announced in April that Waters Empower chromatography data system (CDS) can now be used to control its SPD-M30A photodiode array detector in Nexera X2 series systems, thus enabling control of a wider range of Shimadzu LC products.

In May, Agilent and Shimadzu announced they will exchange RapidControl.NET instrument drivers, enabling Agilent’s OpenLAB CDS and Shimadzu’s LabSolutions to control both manufacturers’ instruments.

Product Introductions

Diba introduced OmniSep columns for low pressure chromatography. They contain agarose- and dextran-based media packed in Benchmark glass columns.

Waters introduced the Prep 150 LC System, a fit-for-purpose preparative chromatography system for medicinal chemistry and natural product extraction.

AB SCIEX released a 21CFR Part 11 module for software control of Eksigent LC systems and an IQ/OQ/PQ service for regulated bioanalysis.

Phenomenex launched Kinetex Core-Shell 5 µm media packed in 21.2 mm ID Axia hardware for preparative HPLC and supercritical fluid chromatography in lab-scale purification.

In June, Phenomenex released the Kinetex C8 5-µm core-shell HPLC column for small-scale preparative purification.

Waters introduced in April the VICAM Myco6in1+ LC/MS/MS immunoaffinity column, which simultaneously screens for seven major mycotoxin families, isolating at least 14 chemically distinct mycotoxins.

BÜCHI introduced the new Sepacore Easy Purification Systems for preparative chromatography: the Easy Synthesis system, featuring a 250 mL/minute, 10 bar pumping system, and the Easy Extract system, a 50 bar gradient system for large sample loading of natural extracts.

In May, Agilent launched the AdvanceBio Peptide Mapping BioHPLC and ZORBAX RRHD 300-HILIC columns, stating that the ZORBAX RRHD 300-HILIC columns are the only sub 2 µm, 300 Å HILIC columns available today.

Tosoh Bioscience introduced in the Americas the TOYOPEARL GigaCap Q-650S anion exchange and S-650S cation exchange resins.

In June, Thermo Fisher Scientific released the Thermo Scientific MAbPac Protein A column for monoclonal antibody titer analysis.