SDK Nominates K. Morikawa as New President and CEO
October 25, 2016
Showa Denko (SDK) (TOKYO:4004) announces that Hideo Ichikawa will resign as President and CEO to become Representative Director and Chairman of the Board, of the Company, and that kohei Morikawa, Director, Managing Corporate Office, and Chief Technology Officer, will succeed Ichikawa, effective January 4, 2017. Morikawa is currently in charge of Electronic Chemicals and Functional [...]
CEM Launches New Technology for Rapid Fat/Oil Analysis
October 25, 2016
(Matthews, North Carolina) CEM Corporation, a leading supplier of process control solutions, is pleased to introduce the all new ORACLE Fat Analyzer based on a very recent breakthrough in NMR technology. ORACLE is the first ever rapid fat analyzer that requires absolutely no method development and can analyze fat in any unknown food sample with [...]
Artel Develops New PCS® Software to Improve Pipette Calibration Workflow and Operator Assessments
October 25, 2016
Westbrook, Maine – Artel, the technology leader in liquid handling quality assurance, today announced the release of its new PCS® Software. Fully compatible with Artel’s current PCS instruments, the software will also be integrated with the latest generation of the Pipette Calibration System (PCS), to be available late 2016. Artel developed the new software to [...]
Phenomenex Adds Polar, Mixed-Mode Selectivities to Luna HPLC/UHPLC Column Line
October 25, 2016
Torrance, Calif. – Phenomenex Inc., global leader in the research, design and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, introduces new mixed-mode selectivities and particle sizes for UHPLC, HPLC and preparative work in the Luna column family. The first is the new Luna Omega Polar C18 stationary phase – a unique selectivity on an [...]
Physik Instrumente Announces Stéphane Bussa, Vice President of Sales & Marketing
October 25, 2016
Bussa’s focus is on solution-centered customer consultations, initially technology-agnostic, as key to PI’s global success and continued growth as an industry leader. Auburn, MA Motion control and nanopositioning solutions expert PI (Physik Instrumente) has named Stéphane Bussa as Vice President, Sales & Marketing, in Karlsruhe, Germany. In 2007, Bussa joined PI France SAS in Paris [...]
Smithers Avanza Adds Gyros Instrument, Expanding Biomarker & Pharmacokinetics Study Capabilities
October 25, 2016
GAITHERSBURG, MD, USA – Smithers Avanza, a contract research organization (CRO) supporting the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, announced that it has augmented its capabilities for pharmacokinetics (PK), immunogenicity, and biomarker testing through the addition of the Gyros Gyrolab™ xPS workstation. The new Gyrolab xPS allows the company to automate nanoliter-scale immunoassays to support both pre-clinical [...]
LECO Unveils the New Pegasus® BT
October 25, 2016
LECO Corporation delivers leading state-of-the-art products and solutions and now offers the new Pegasus® BT. Users can expect improved data, along with an increase in productivity, and efficiency. St. Joseph, MI LECO Corporation is pleased to announce their latest innovation for the GC-MS marketplace—the Pegasus® BT. The Pegasus BT gives users all of the data [...]
October 24, 2016
ORLANDO, Fla.--AABB 2016 – A new series of high-performance refrigerators and freezers has been developed to support sustainability objectives by lowering energy usage and reducing noise output levels across blood banking, pharmacy, clinical and scientific applications, while ensuring optimal sample protection. The new Thermo Scientific TSX Series refrigerators and freezers complement the existing range of [...]
Markes enhances its suite of thermal desorption products with new sorptive extraction technology
October 24, 2016
Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has announced the launch of a new? technology for high-capacity sorptive extraction of organic chemicals from liquids and solids. The new HiSorb™ product range includes probes and accessories that sorptively extract volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs) for analysis by thermal desorption (TD)–GC–MS. They can be used ?for immersive [...]
Q2 Solutions Enhances Companion Diagnostics Capabilities in Collaboration with Illumina
October 24, 2016
MORRISVILLE, N.C. – Q2 Solutions, a global clinical trials laboratory services organization, today announced the expansion of its genomic companion diagnostics (CDx) capabilities. This comes as a result of an agreement between Q2 Solutions – EA Genomics and Illumina, a global leader in genomics, to establish a framework for developing next-generation sequencing-based (NGS) CDx assays. [...]

