For the first time in its 63-year history, the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, marking a welcome return to the Northeast US, which many vendors hoped would boost attendance. The conference took place March 17–30. It appears the new location did help. Organizers told IBO that preliminary […]
Hanson Research is a company that has developed along with the pharmaceutical industry. “Our product line has evolved over the years to proactively address changes in regulatory requirements, new test methods for pharmaceutical formulations and international harmonization for the quality assurance of pharmaceuticals,” said Hanson Research Chairman and CEO Royal Hanson. Hanson Research was founded […]
Hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) is a variation of normal-phase LC. It has a similar elution profile to normal-phase chemistry in that analytes elute in the order of increasing polarity. However, the difference is that normal-phase methods use an entirely organic solvent mixture, while HILIC employs an aqueous-organic solvent blend. HILIC HPLC columns are typically packed […]
As announced in IBO‘s June 30, 2012, issue, the European Commission (EC) planned to ban animal testing this year for all cosmetic products and ingredients sold in the EU, but a delay was likely. On March 11, the EC announced that the ban has taken effect as planned. According to the European Centre for the […]
Company Announcements ChemImage named IVG a distributor of its HSI Examiner products in Mexico. In January, Avantes announced a partnership with Tornado Spectral Systems for the design, manufacture and distribution of a new line of high-performance spectrometers based on Tornado’s High Throughput Virtual Slit technology. X-Rite, a Danaher company, named Ron Voigt president, effective March […]
Company Announcements Agilent opened a new X-ray diffraction (XRD) manufacturing facility in Wroclaw, Poland, in November 2012, which replaces a nearby facility. Oxford Instruments announced in November 2012 the return of NDT Products as a distributor and service provider for the X-MET7000 Series X-ray fluorescence spectrometers (XRF) in Canada. NDT will focus on selling the […]
Company Announcements ChemImage named IVG a distributor of its HSI Examiner products in Mexico. In January, Avantes announced a partnership with Tornado Spectral Systems for the design, manufacture and distribution of a new line of high-performance spectrometers based on Tornado’s High Throughput Virtual Slit technology. X-Rite, a Danaher company, named Ron Voigt president, effective March […]
Company Announcements Stratedigm named LK BioScience a distributor for South Korea and Biomed Diagnostics a distributor for Singapore. Becton, Dickinson and Company disclosed that the fair value of consideration transferred for Sirigen (see IBO 8/31/12) was $52 million in cash and $12 million in contingent consideration. In December 2012, IntelliCyt formed a collaborative marketing alliance […]
Company Announcements In January, Anton Paar opened subsidiaries in Poland, South Africa and Brazil. Microwave synthesis and Petrotest products will continue to be distributed in Poland by Comef and Tusnovics, respectively. The South African subsidiary is a joint venture with sales partner Swiss Lab. In January, AMETEK Advanced Measurement Technology acquired Sunpower, a developer of […]
The impact of research publications from the BRICK (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Korea) nations is increasing. Based on an analysis of articles found in the 11,500 journals in Thomson Reuters Web of Science, and using 25 broad categories of fields from the Essential Science Indicators database, the frequency of the citation of a country’s […]
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