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New Software for Gel Permeation Chromatography/Size Exclusion Chromatography
Agilent Technologies (UK) announce the launch of the new Agilent GPC/SEC software for gel permeation/size exclusion chromatography with improved measurement and reporting capabilities for the food, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The software can be used across different platforms, providing a common element in both Agilent 1200 Infinity GPC/SEC systems and former Varian GPC/SEC systems. The Agilent GPC/SEC software comes with a look and feel similar to the Agilent OpenLAB CDS LC softwar...
New Chromatography Columns and Consumables Catalogue released
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., have released its 2012-2013 Thermo Scientific Chromatography Columns and Consumables catalogue. The more comprehensive catalogue is organized into four core segments: sample preparation, vials and closures, gas chromatography and liquid chromatography, and it combines all the latest product innovations, including those added after the recent Dionex acquisition, into a single, user-friendly portfolio. For the first time, the catalogue also includes instruments, such...
New multimedia guide «IC Maintenance» available now
Ion chromatography has become the method of choice for many applications. Sensitive as it is, correct results depend crucially on the correct use and maintenance of the IC instrument. To this end, Metrohm has published «IC Maintenance», a new multimedia guide demonstrating users of Metrohm IC how to carry out essential maintenance work on their IC system by themselves. «IC Maintenance» is free of charge and can be ordered from any Metrohm representation. Short videos guide the users step by step...
Restek gains ISO Guide 34 and 17025 Accreditations On a Full Line of Certified Reference Materials
Restek’s reference standard manufacturing and QA testing laboratories in the USA have added ISO Guide 34 and 17025 accreditations to the company’s existing ISO 9001 registration. Issued by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA), these accreditationsserve as recognition that Restek and its laboratories meet the world-class quality standards established by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). In addition to catalogue listed items the new accreditation app...
Phenomenex Founder Invited to Buckingham Palace
Fasha Mahjoor, managing director of Phenomenex Ltd, has been invited to dinner at Buckingham Palace next month for the 90th birthday celebration of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, in support of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and The Outward Bound Trust–two charities he champions. When asked what prompted the invitation, Mr. Mahjoor replied, “The invitation was sent to 150 directors of British companies and individuals active in philanthropic causes. It is a privilege to...
Enhanced Security Software for Streamlined Regulatory Compliance for the Pharmaceutical Industry
PerkinElmer, Inc., announce the introduction of the new NexION® Enhanced Security™ (ES) Software, to streamline regulatory compliance by pharmaceutical companies. The ES Software platform was developed for users of PerkinElmer’s NexION 300 ICP-MS system. As regulatory compliance is a complex, ongoing and exacting process, the NexION ES Software platform ensures the integrity of electronic data records that are generated under industry-standard protocols within pharma research and QA/QC organiza...
Crawford Scientific are sponsoring 5 years’ FREE access to CHROMacademy for all university students and staff.
Crawford Scientific are committed to learning and to support this ethos they are offering all university students and staff free access to CHROMacademy for five years. University costs are high for students and Crawford Scientific would like the future leaders and innovators of the scientific community to make the best of their time of study. By providing free access to CHROMacademy, they hope to help students realize their full potential. Crawford Scientific has over 25 years’ experience of s...
Breaking news on the UK pavilion at ArabLab 2012
In the world-renowned Dubai convention and Exhibition centre, Arablab 2011 closed its doors on the most successful show to date. 850+ exhibitors from all over the world came to showcase their products to 9,000+ buyers, dealers and end users from 40+ Industries in 85+ countries…..truely making it, the show with global buying appeal. The rapidly developing infrastructure of the Middle East and Asia has resulted in an exceptionally high level of new and refurbished Medical Laboratory and Clinical...
Agilent Technologies Reports Third-Quarter 2011 Results
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) reports revenues of $1.69 billion for the third fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2011, 22 percent above one year ago, or 19 percent excluding the effects of acquisitions and divestitures(3). Third-quarter GAAP net income was $330 million, or $0.92 per share. Last year’s third-quarter GAAP net income was $205 million, or $0.58 per share. During the third quarter, Agilent had intangible amortization of $29 million, acquisition and integration costs of $11 million,...
Phenomenex Opens New Office in India
Phenomenex (USA), announces that it has expanded its international subsidiary network to serve India directly from a new office in Hyderabad. The new entity, which opened this month, will serve research communities throughout India with sales and service teams that sell all Phenomenex products directly and provide timely technical support, training and seminars. “Phenomenex India will provide our growing customer base with the most innovative products along with fast deliveries, expert t...
Avantor Performance Materials to Acquire POCH S.A. from Kulczyk Holding
AvantorT Performance Materials (USA) announces a definitive agreement to acquire POCH S.A. from Kulczyk. Completion of the sale is dependent on obtaining the necessary clearance from the Polish competition authority, and is subject to customary closing conditions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Avantor Performance Materials, formerly Mallinckrodt Baker, manufactures and markets high-performance chemistries and materials around the world under several well respected brand names, in...
Collaboration to Offer Complete LC and GC Solutions
Phenomenex (USA) and Shimadzu Scientific Instruments today announced a marketing collaboration for LC and GC systems. Through this collaboration, Shimadzu systems and Phenomenex columns will be offered together in a complete solution in the United States. As part of the 2011 Total Solutions Program, purchasers of Shimadzu analytical-scale HPLC, UHPLC, LC/MS or GC/GCMS systems will be given a Phenomenex welcome package that includes a technical consultation to evaluate the application an...
Major Global Brands Tell Why They Put Their Trust in Metrohm
Mutual trust is at the heart of years, and personal relationships between Metrohm and many customers representing global brands from all kinds of industries. In a selection of short videos, some of these customers tell, how Metrohm has met their demand for custom solutions to challenges they faced in their laboratory. The videos can be viewed at Metrohm’s website. While Metrohm instruments are known for their unique ruggedness and reliability all over the world, Metrohm quality of the Me...
Extraction of Pharmaceuticals, a Collaboration Between Dynamic Extractions, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Brunel University
The consortium was awarded a grant by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) as part of their High Value Manufacturing Competition in 2009. The 3 year project is now at the halfway point and significant progress is being made to develop small footprint, versatile, liquid-liquid purification instrumentation packages and methodologies These can be operated seamlessly at a range of scales, from laboratory to kilo/pilot scale in both batch and continuous modes. Since the start of the project, an...
Analytical Method Development from Sigma-Aldrich®
Efficient method development requires expert knowledge of separation science and extensive practical experience. Several factors must be considered to create a robust and reproducible analytical method. All too often, method development is rushed; a very generic or robust method is chosen, or an existing/similar application from a previous method is simply duplicated. While these approaches can work, they are not always the most effective way forward. Sigma-Aldrich has a wide range of produ...
Chiral Screening Service Launched
Phenomenex announces a Chiral Screening Service for customers in pharmaceutical and natural products research and development. This free service provides target screening using a library of HPLC and SFC columns including the Phenomenex Lux™ polysaccharide-based offerings, which demonstrate a success rate approaching 90 percent. After resolving the chiral compound, Phenomenex also produces method development and optimization for the service customer, all within 10 business days. Enantiomers of...
Autosampler Vials and Caps Brochure
A new brochure is now available for the popular and innovative range of Cronus autosampler vials and caps. Issue 3 of the informative and easy to follow brochure includes the extended range of caps for wide opening screw top vials as used by many of the leading autosamplers. The full colour 32-page brochure features pictures and diagrams of every Cronus vial and cap to assist in the correct vial choice for any application. Cronus vials, along with Cronus syringe filters and HPLC columns, have...
ChromaTOF® Software Version Now Available
LECO is pleased to announce the release of ChromaTOF version 4.30, the exclusive operating software for its Separation Science instrumentation. In addition to the same renowned functionality and time-saving features of previous software versions, ChromaTOF 4.30 offers an improved user interface, the option of defining user permissions, and the ability to perform variable modulation. With variable modulation, users can modify modulation settings within each chromatographic run for a more speciali...
Chromatography Today Questionnaire WINNERS
We recently ran a survey to all our readers asking for their assistance and to tell us their views on Chromatography Today. We had a great response and are delighted to announce the winners who were chosen at random from the database of results we obtained. The prizes were – a days fishing on the Loddon river, a beautiful location to learn to fly fish and relax. The river has a vast area to fish, testing the most experience, and pleasing the novice. Find out more here. We also had 2 bottles of...
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Ultrasphere® HPLC Column Range Acquired by Hichrom Limited
Hichrom Limited are pleased to announce the acquisition of the Ultrasphere® HPLC column consumable product line from Beckman Coulter. Based in the UK, Hichrom is a leading European manufacturer and distributor of HPLC columns, consumables and media, with manufacturing facilities accredited to both ISO9001 (Quality) and ISO14001 (Environmental) standards. Until 31st December 2009, Beckman Coulter will continue to sell the Ultrasphere® products remaining in inventory while supplies last via existi...
Complete range of Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) products launched
Presearch is proud to announce it’s appointment as the exclusive distributor for United Chemical Technologies (UCT), Inc. the leaders in solid phase extraction (SPE) for over 20 years. UCT manufactures a wide range of highly reproducible sample preparation products which allow the chromatographer a consistent extraction technique. Already respected in the forensic, pharmaceutical and environmental industry for dependable service, competitive pricing, innovative technology and reproducible produ...
Analysis of Phospholipids by HPTLC
Omicron Research Limited, CAMAG’s UK Distributor, brings you the findings of recent phospholipids research, an area of growing importance to many industries. Phospholipid analysis challenges any chromatographic technique, mainly due to the nature of the analytes. Historically, TLC has been used and the reproducibility of results has been unreliable and unquantifiable. At CAMAG several parameters of the chromatographic process were investigated including chamber saturation, derivatization, plate...
Eksigent Promotes Remco van Soest to Vice President of Product Management
Eksigent, a developer of advanced low-flow fluid delivery technologies for drug discovery and other life science applications, announces that Remco van Soest has been promoted to the Vice President level within the company, continuing to be responsible for Product Management. He has been with the company for nearly three years, first as product manager and then as director of product management for the NanoLC™ product line for proteomics research and biomarker discovery. In his new position, va...
A New Look for Quadrex Corporation…
Quadrex Corporation, manufacturers of fused silica capillary columns for gas chromatography, has launched its newly designed website, www.quadrexcorp.com The site offers a brand new and fresh design and is unlike anything else in the industry. It is easy to navigate through the different product sections making it simple to find the product information you are looking for. A complete down-loadable price list is also available. Visit www.quadrexcorp.com, or www.capillary-columns.com for complet...
Markes’ On-line Shops Open for Business
Markes International Ltd. (Llantrisant, UK) has announced the introduction of e-commerce to its websites (www.markes.com & www.markes-usa.com) for the convenience of customers who prefer to make on-line purchases. Currently, the ClearView™ GCMS reprocessing software package is available for on-line purchase and, over time, an increasing number of thermal desorption consumables and accessories will be added. Markes International is one of the world’s leading suppliers of thermal desorption (TD)...
JASCO’s New European Headquarter’s Grand Opening Concludes its 50th Anniversary Celebration in 2008
This year JASCO celebrates its 50th anniversary in the analytical instrumentation market. This important milestone has been celebrated throughout the year on a worldwide scale, including at all major 2008 exhibitions, such as Analytica, JAIMA and Pittcon to name a few. Included in these celebrations was the release of several new products, including JASCO’s new FT-IR Microscopes and imaging system, the IRT5000/IRT7000 and the new CHROMNAV Chromatography Data System. Celebrations will conclude...
Analysis of Melamine in Food
Concerns have recently arisen regarding the contamination on milk products and animal feed by melamine and related substances derived from the illegal addition of vegetable protein. Melamine combined with cyanuric acid can lead to toxicity and kidney failure. Detection and measurement of melamine levels are therefore of significant importance in ensuring food safety. Hichrom are now able to report on a number of HPLC and LC-MS methods that have recently been developed for this assay. Please cont...
PerkinElmer Awarded U.S. Patent on Method to Ensure Accuracy of Automated Thermal Desorption Gas Chromatography
PerkinElmer announce that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded it Patent No. 7,422,625 B2 covering an advanced method in gas chromatography (GC). The patent, titled “Methods and Systems for Characterizing a Sorbent Tube,” protects the Company’s-proprietary methods that help gas chromatographers increase the accuracy of their results when using automated thermal desorption (ATD) gas chromatography (GC). PerkinElmer’s automatic verification method described in the patent is...
Anatune expands into HPLC with new £1/3 million laboratory
Anatune continues to grow with its entry into the High Performance Liquid Chromatography market. The company has recently celebrated the opening of a new £1/3 million HPLC application development laboratory and has recruited Paul Roberts, formerly of the Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science, as HPLC applications chemist. Paul Roberts joins the company after eight years at CEFAS, where he was involved in a variety of projects focused on the development of analytical methods (LC...
SMI-LabHut wins Queens Award
SMI-LabHut Ltd has won the Queens Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category. Supplying sampling devices, accessories and consumables for the chromatography and dissolutionmarkets, the company achieved continuous significant growth over 6 years and generated over 80% of it’s sales overseas. The 7 strong team, led byMark and SheilaWardle implemented a strategy of strong internetmarketing together with a flexible and supportive approach to a distributor network resulting in sales in...
Thames Restek Plans a Sustainable Future
Thames Restek Ltd., has begun its journey to reduce their carbon footprint by initiating a sustainability programme under ISO 14001 accreditation and management. “We are committed to providing an environmental management system and its supporting audit programme to establish a plan to reduce emissions from travel, waste and energy,” said Martin Chignall, Thames Restek M.D. “It is yet another example of our continuing commitment to quality, health & safety and environmental protection in all th...
Restek Products Honored by Laboratory Equipment Magazine
Two Restek product lines were recently honored by Laboratory Equipment magazine. QuEChERS SPE tubes were selected as a winner and Biphenyl HPLC columns were named as a finalist in the magazine’s 2009 Reader’s Choice Awards competition.Winners were selected by practicing scientists and engineers based on the value and performance of the products in research labs. For more information on the advantages of QuEChERS SPE tubes visit www.restek.com/quechers and to learn how Biphenyl columns can improv...
Waters Corporation and Peak Scientific Instruments enter OEM Agreement for the supply of Nitrogen Generators for LCMS.
Thousands of scientists around the world use Waters LCMS systems to make new discoveries every day. As Mass Spectroscopists continue to push the boundaries of science with Waters LCMS systems, nitrogen supply will remain a key element. The gas requirements for LCMS systems are often taken for granted and not appreciated or understood until results are analysed. Only then, it becomes apparent that poor quality nitrogen can be responsible, either for background interference that can reduce the de...
Phenomenex Wears Red for Charity
Phenomenex had a blast last month, all in the name of charity. Hundreds of Phenomenex employees around the world showed up to work dressed in the most ridiculous attire they could gather with the only rule being: it had to be red and look funny. The catalyst for the global event came from the Phenomenex United Kingdom subsidiary, whose team planned some office comic relief in step with “Red Nose Day”. Businesses throughout the UK use this day to take themselves less seriously at work and rais...
New Protein Folding Application Note Uses Wyatt Technology’s Dynamic Light Scattering Technique
SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA (September 15, 2008) – Wyatt Technology, the world leader in absolute macromolecular characterization products, announces the publication of a new, free-of-charge application note demonstrating the capability of its DynaPro dynamic light scattering instrument to monitor the dissociation of an oligomeric protein and unfolding of monomers simultaneously using chaotropic agents. The analysis of proteins is particularly important for the study of many diseases such as can...
New Guide Assists Optimum Filter Plate Selection...
Porvair Sciences Ltd., specialists in microplates and microplate technology, has announced the availability of a new guide that makes selection of the optimum filter microplate for your application simple. The easy-to-use guide (http://www.porvair-sciences.com/downloads.php) lists a comprehensive range of over 30 different filter plates that offer a wide variety of membranes and working volumes. These are matched against more than 40 of the most popular applications to ensure that getting the...
New Collaboration Between PerkinElmer and Labtronics Provides a Key Tool to Reduce Workload and Data Management Costs for LABWORKS™ LIMS customers
WALTHAM, Mass. – PerkinElmer, Inc. today announced a collaboration with Labtronics Inc., a world leader in laboratory data integration and management solutions, to offer laboratories more choice for connecting laboratory instruments with LABWORKS™ Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). The collaboration allows laboratories to rapidly customize solutions for their unique needs. Labtronics provides a flexible toolkit approach enabling users to adapt their interfaces to meet changing req...