Loveland, Colo. – Hach Company (hach.com) announced today its acquisition of AppliTek (applitek.com), a manufacturer of online analyzers and monitoring systems based in Nazareth, Belgium. The acquisition was conducted through Belgium-based affiliate Hach Lange N.V. AppliTek is a leading designer and manufacturer of wet chemical and biological online analyzers. The company develops application-specific solutions for [...]

An "Anton Paar training laboratory" was recently opened at renowned VLB, the Research and Teaching Institute for Brewing in Berlin. It is equipped with the latest analytical instruments, an investment that is much appreciated by VLB-president Ulrich Rust who explicitly thanked Anton Paar during his opening-speech. The training laboratory is part of the new institute [...]

WILSONVILLE, Ore. -- FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:FLIR) today announced that Carol P. Lowe will join the company as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective November 27, 2017. Reporting to FLIR President and CEO Jim Cannon, Lowe will lead FLIR's global finance organization with responsibility over all financial operations, including reporting, controls, planning, and strategy. Carol Lowe Named Executive Vice President and [...]

Advanced analytical module for tomography in the laboratory provides 3D grain imagin JENA/Germany, PLEASANTON/USA ZEISS is extending the boundaries of non-destructive 3D X-ray imaging with the newest release of its diffraction contrast tomography platform, LabDCT. LabDCT provides large volume 3D maps of grains, the fundamental building blocks of metal alloys and other polycrystalline materials. Materials [...]

Enhancements to Thermo Scientific Orbitrap GC-MS Systems offer users unprecedented depth for comprehensive compound characterization Sunnyvale, CA – Updated with new capabilities in high resolution accurate mass (HRAM) GC-MS, the Thermo Scientific Orbitrap GC-MS systems now give users across metabolomics, food safety, environmental, pharma and toxicology applications high levels of accuracy in their data. Building on [...]

TSI Incorporated, a manufacturer of handheld ChemLite™ Metals Analyzers based on Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, is pleased to announce a distribution agreement with Arconic Incorporated , manufacturer of spectrochemical reference materials for aluminum alloys. Through this relationship, TSI will resell Arconic's MicrO Certified Reference Materials (CRMs) in a convenient, easy-to-use kit for field standardization of ChemLite LIBS metal analyzers. Arconic [...]

Patent covers successful integration of an external DNA sequence into the chromosome of eukaryotic cells using CRISPR First patent allowance for MilliporeSigma’s CRISPR technology in North America Related patent application awards by European and Australian Patent Offices already received; similar patents pending elsewhere Burlington, Massachusetts — MilliporeSigma today announced that the Canadian Patent Office has issued [...]

Twelve student finalists awarded in three fields of life science: bioseparations, 3D printing and food and beverage safety Grand prize winners Steffen Zobel-Roos, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany, Alexandra Rutz, University of Cambridge, UK, and Ruben R. G. Soares, University of Lisbon, Portugal, selected based on research presentations at MilliporeSigma’s new Life Science Center – [...]

Over the past decade, atomic force microscopes (AFMs) have been instrumental in understanding the nanoscale morphology of photovoltaic (PV) materials, an essential step to improving their performance. However, characterising the photoresponse of these materials with the AFM has often required a great deal of custom instrumentation development on the researcher’s part. To simplify these measurements, [...]

Shimadzu has released the Polymer Additives Library, which contains 4869 mass spectra*1, for its gas chromatograph mass spectrometers (GC/MS). This product will be useful in the analysis of polymer additives for a variety of purposes, ranging from quality control to new materials development and compliance with regulatory controls. Resins, plastics, rubbers, and other polymer materials [...]