Company Announcements

Avacta announced in February an exclusive sales and marketing agreement with Pall for North America.

In March, Avacta signed an exclusive distribution agreement with DKSH Japan.

In March, ChromaDex announced a codevelopment and comarketing agreement with Bruker Optics for dietary supplement testing that will initially focus on NIR technology for raw-material identity testing.

TeraView opened its first office outside the UK, which is located within the Institute for the Development and Commercialization of Advanced Sensor Technology in Dayton, Ohio.

In March, TeraView entered into a sales and service agreement with Hermes-Epitek for Taiwan, China, Singapore and Malaysia.

Norton Scientific announced an exclusive mutual distribution agreement with AstraNet Systems covering North America and Europe.

In 2010, FOSS’s revenues grew 16.9% to €201 million ($264 million) (see IBO 3/31/11). COO Torben Ladegaard was named CEO, effective March 24, replacing Peter Foss, who was named chairman. Kim Vejlby Hansen, senior vice president of Innovation, was named COO.

Product Introductions

Palintest introduced the 9100 UV-Vis spectrophotometer, which is capable of full spectral analysis across the 190–1100 nm wavelength, as well as kinetic measurement, and has a photometric mode for simple sample assays.

Interspectrum released the Interspec 310 series of portable FT-IR spectrometers, featuring a measurement range of 400–700 cm-1 and spectral resolution of 2 cm-1.

Renishaw Diagnostics introduced the research use–only RenDx multiplex assay system for testing of up to 10 targets from a single sample. Based on surface-enhanced resonance Raman scattering, the platform consists of reagent kits, a robotic sample processor and an analyzer.

Lytera released the TeraLyzer Data Extraction Suite terahertz spectroscopy software for simultaneous extraction of dielectric properties and geometrical thickness.

Picarro introduced the G2401 and G2401-m (mobile) gas concentration analyzers that each can simultaneously measure carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane and water concentrations at precision levels that meet the World Meteorological Organization’s data quality objectives.

Picarro released the compact Induction Module-Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy system, which integrates with the L2120-i water isotope analyzer for performing water extraction in remote locations.

Datacolor launched the low-cost Select QC portable colorimeter and software package.

ASD introduced the FieldSpec HandHeld 2 Pro Version model Vis/NIR spectroradiometer, which provides greater sensitivity in low reflectance conditions.