Marlboro, MA – Protasis Corporation, a spin-off of Waters Corporation, and Column Engineering, Inc. (CEI) are partnering to develop method optimization and automation services for application scientists and process engineers. Both companies will work closely with customers to optimize flow path, chemistries and parameters for process monitoring applications. Protasis’ microfabrication techniques allow it to repackage and integrate a customer’s analytical methods into miniatrurized probes, sensors, analyzers and novel cartridge-reader packages for real-time process monitoring. CEI manufactures custom chromatography columns for the pharmaceutical industry, and its partnership with protasis will expand its services to include method optimization.