Company Announcements

Datacolor established an Indian subsidiary in Mumbai earlier this year.

Cannon Instrument assumed exclusive representation for KEM’s (Kyoto Electronics Manufacturing) products in the US and portions of North America for applications in the petroleum, polymer and petrochemical industries.

MTI Instruments acquired in March the tensile stage line of products from Ernest F. Fullam.

Horiba announced its Sulfur Analysis Division is now the exclusive distributor of Fluid Imaging Technologies’ FlowCAM automated particle vision and analysis system for post-refinery petroleum applications.

XiGo named four new distributors for its NMR-based XiGo Nanotools Acorn Area Surface Area Analyzer: Particle Metrix GmbH for Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Amira for Italy; Dream Corporation for Korea; and Microtrac for the US and Canada.

Cordouan Technologies granted Particulate Systems, a Micromeritics company, distribution rights to the VASCO Series of dynamic light scattering nanoparticle size analyzers.

Sartorius AG added Schmidt + Haensch’s refractometers to its line of lab products and will add the company’s sensors and equipment for in-line process analytics.

Malvern Instruments Japan will provides sales, technical and appplication support for all of its particle characterization systems beginning October 1, ending its agreement with current distributor Sysmex.

In July, A. Krüss Optronic announced the opening of its Asian headquarters in Taiwan.

Quantachrome Instruments has acquired certain assets of Wenman Scientific, a company that provides capillary flow porometers for pore size measurements. Company President Richard Wenman joined Quantachrome.

Product Introductions

Struers launched the DuraScan hardness-testing system, available in five models, which has a test load range of 10 gf to 10 kgf.

Instron released the 5900 Series Universal Testing Systems, consisting of five instruments.

SII NanoTechnology, a Seiko Instruments subsidiary, introduced the X-DSC7000 differential scanning calorimeter, featuring a new sensor and furnace.

AMETEK Petrolab introduced the Petrotest CLA 5 Cleveland open cup flash point and fire point analyzer, which automatically tests both liquid and highly viscous liquid as well as solid samples according to ASTM D92 and ISO 2592 standards.

Retsch launched the Camsizer XT optical particle measurement system, featuring improved optical resolution and the X-Change system with three alternative dispersion methods.