Molecular Spectroscopy

Company Announcements

In April, KLA-Tencor acquired Keysight Technologies’ nano-indenter product line.

In June, Nanoscience Instruments expanded its distribution agreement for KLA­Tencor’s Nano Indenter G200 and T150 UTM systems.

Nanomechanics, a provider of nano-indenter products, announced in July its acquisition by KLA-Tencor.

In June, Princeton Instruments (PI) added its proprietary spectral and imaging data format (.SPE) to Eigenvector Research’s upcoming versions of the PLS_Toolbox and Solo software. The .SPE data format used by PI’s LightField software is a flexible data format that stores spectral and imaging data. By convention, .SPE files include metadata detailing experiment information of instrument settings as well as the history of the data processing applied.

Picarro partnered in June with Southern Cross, which offers field services to utilities, to provide outsourced leak management, including data-enabled asset management solutions.

Bruker disclosed in a quarterly SEC filing that it paid $27.0 million plus the potential of additional consideration to purchase Anasys Instruments (see IBO 4/30/18).

In July, AMETEK Grabner Instruments and Agilent Technologies entered into an OEM agreement. Grabner developed the MINISCAN IR LOG, based on Agilent’s handheld FTIR systems, an analyzer for monitoring the condition of lubricating oils and greases.

 

Product Introductions

FOSS introduced in May the FoodScan 2, an NIR system for analyzing solid and semi-solid dairy products, with time to results in as little as 15 seconds. Color can be measured simultaneously with compositional tests by employing NIR transmission and transflectance technology in one unit. Models are available for lab and production settings.

In June, Bruker released a new version of its ParaVision 360 imaging software for preclinical MRI, enabling essential or simultaneous PET/MR measurements and analysis. ParaVision 360 includes the unique IntraGateUTE method, which offers artefact-­free images of a beating heart.

Bruker introduced in June the B.I.QUANT-PS metabollte quantification solution, part of the B.I.BioBankTool, for its AVANCE IVDr NMR 600 MHz system. The software offers delivers automatic quantification of 26 disease-relevant metabolites and in the same experiment also enables lipoprotein subclass analysis.

In July, PerkinElmer debuted the FL 6500 Pulse Xenon and FL 8500 Continuous Wave Fluorescence Spectrometers. The FL 6500 features scan speeds up to 60,000 nm. The FL 6500 fluorescence spectrometer is designed for testing samples that are susceptible to photo bleaching.

Wasatch Photonics expanded in July its Cobra OCT spectrometer line. The new models operate at visible wavelengths and provide depth-resolved, localized oxygenation mapping concurrently with the acquired optical coherence tomography image.

 

Sales and Orders of Note

In July, Rigaku Analytical announced that Project Global Shield, a World Customs Organization (WCO) program, has chosen its Progeny ResQ 1,064 nm handheld Raman analyzers for global customs operations. The WCO will use a minimum of 38 systems. The program is designed to combat illicit use of precursor chemicals used to manufacture improvised explosive devices by monitoring cross-­border movements.

In July, CDMO Almac installed a Bruker 500 MHz NMR system and Prodigy Cryoprobe at is global headquarters in Craigavon, UK, representing a £375,000 ($493,421) investment in additional NMR instrumentation.

In August, Bruker announced orders for two 1 GHz AVANCE ultra-high field NMR systems from the UK’s University of Warwick and University of Birmingham. The orders also include CryoProbes and AVANCE NEO console upgrades to existing 800 and 950 MHz systems at several universities across the UK.

Agilent Technologies announced in July the UK Border Force is using its Resolve handheld Raman System to detect bulk chemicals. This deployment is part of a multimillion-pound framework agreement between the UK Home Office and Agilent.

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