Company Announcements

Ocean Optics will market and sell Analyze IQ’s Analyze IQ Lab, Analyze IQ Spectra Manager and Analyze IQ Raman Library platforms.

In September, Ahura Scientific announced it had reached $100 million in product revenues since its first product shipment in 2005 and that it now serves more than 100 pharmaceutical facilities.

Ahura Scientific formed a development partnership with QinetiQ North America’s Technology Solutions Group to integrate their respective Raman spectrometer and GEN IV TALON military robot for use by first responders.

Ocean Optics formed a dedicated OEM engineering group in September.

Product Introductions

B&W Tek launched the innoRAM portable Raman spectrometer with a touch-screen computer.

Avacta introduced the Optim 1000 to measure the aggregation, unfolding and stability of samples using UV fluorescence, visible fluorescence, static light scattering and, optionally, Raman spectroscopy in a single workstation with micro-cuvette plate technology.

FOSS A/S released the Mosaic internet-based networking software for remote monitoring.

Hitachi High-Technology Japan introduced the F-2700 fluorescence spectrophotometer with 800 or better RMS.

ChemImage launched lower-cost configurations of its FALCON II Wide-field Raman Chemical Imaging Systems in July.

BaySpec released the HazMatID-1064 handheld Raman analyzer, featuring a mechanical design based on Volume Phase Gratings. Periodic calibration is not required.

BaySpec introduced the Portability Series of Raman systems for high-resolution field measurements and validation of unknown substances.

X-Rite launched the VS450 spectrophotometer for measuring the color quality of wet and dry samples without touching test surfaces.

CRAIC Technologies introduced the Microspectra 1 photometer for microscopes, designed for photometric and radiometric analysis.

Hoefer, a Harvard Bioscience company, released the new Vision spectrophotometers, which include 16 predefined methodologies.

Optical Building Blocks launched the EastLife L luminescence spectrometer, which allows the user to follow reaction kinetics by plotting the lanthanide lifetime, rather than the intensity, as a function of time.

Filmetrics released the F10-VC spectrometer for vacuum-coating analysis applications.