Company Announcements

ANDalyze named Hach an authorized distributor.

SciAps received in November 2013 a $2.5 million investment led by new investor Gefinor Ventures.

In December 2013, Datacolor opened a sales and service company in São Paulo, Brazil.

FOSS announced in January that it will close its site in Höganäs, Sweden, which employs 160, by the end of 2015 and move the site’s production operations to China and Hillerød, Denmark.

Trinean entered into a manufacturing and supply agreement with QIAGEN for the production of the UV/Vis-based QIAxpert micro-volume spectrometer for DNA and RNA quantitation and quality analysis.

Product Introductions

PerkinElmer introduced in October 2013 the DairyGurad milk powder analyzer, an NIR spectrometer that tests for unknown adulterants as well as known compounds in milk powder supplies.

B&W Tek launched the TacticID handheld Raman system for the identification of narcotics, explosives and hazardous chemicals. It is available in two versions.

Thermo Fisher Scientific released in November 2013 the Thermo Scientific TruScan GP handheld Raman spectrometer for portable pharmaceutical identification.

Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the field-deployable Thermo Scientific Delta Ray Isotope Ration IR Spectrometer for the continuous measurement of isotope ratio values from carbon dioxide in ambient air.

Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced in January the Thermo Scientific DXRxi Raman imaging microscope, featuring the new OMNICxi image-centric software.

In November 2013, Hüber introduced the benchtop T-SENS Imager, developed in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques, which detects hidden objects and materials such as drugs and explosives in letters and small parcels.

Hüber released the T-COGNITION terahertz spectrometer for the inspection of mail.

Hüber launched the T-SPECTRALYZER terahertz spectrometer, which functions without any additional cooling or external dry air supply.

In December 2013, PANalytical Boulder (formerly ASD) launched the ASD TeraSpec Halo mineral identifier, a handheld NIR spectrometer for mineral identification.

In January, Datacolor released the Datacolor 45 family of handheld spectrophotometers, consisting of three systems, to address the specific needs of color supply chains.

LI-COR introduced the SMARTFlux System for calculating the exchange of gases between the land or water surface and the atmosphere. It provides for the viewing of final fluxes in real time.