The Pittcon Program Committee is pleased to announce that they are currently accepting proposals for Symposia, Workshops, and Organized Contributed Sessions for the 2016 Technical Program.
The submission deadline is April 17, 2015. All proposals must be submitted electronically at www.pittcon.org. Proposals for symposia are being sought in all areas of analytical chemistry and applied spectroscopy. In addition to the classical analytical and spectroscopic topics, areas such as bioanalytical chemistry, nanotechnology, environmental analysis, food analysis, forensics, chemical applications in art conservation, education, energy...
Rigaku Raman Technologies, a leading pioneer of handheld and portable Raman spectrometers, is delighted to announce that they have achieved ISO 9001:2008, certified by the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) for its new manufacturing facility.
Rigaku achieved certification by demonstrating compliance with the industry-accepted, quality management standards for the design, development, manufacture, and support of hardware and software for portable scientific instruments. Rigaku is committed to manufacturing high quality Raman analyzers for the pharmaceutical industry and the achievement of ISO certification will enable the company to continue to lead the way in...
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group strengthens its biopharmaceutical offering through the acquisition of ASEPCO® Corporation (Asepco).
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG), the world leader in niche peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies, has acquired Asepco through its parent company Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc, for £7.0 million. Asepco, based in California USA, specialises in the design and manufacture of high purity aseptic valves and magnetic mixers for the bioprocessing industry. Asepco is a natural extension of the Watson-Marlow...
A new customer survey published early in 2015 by Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) specialist, Autoscribe, has shown an across-the-board increase in customer satisfaction levels compared to a similar survey carried out in 2013.
In addition response levels to the survey, which was conducted in both the USA and UK, was up nearly fourfold. The survey contains a number of questions which allow customers to rate some aspect of the Matrix LIMS products or the service provided by Autoscribe on a scale of 1-10. Every survey question with this metric showed an improvement. Autoscribe Managing Director, John Boother, said: “We are absolutely delighted with...
BioTek Instruments, a global leader in microplate instrumentation technology, recently received the '2014 Supplier of the Year' award from Fisher Scientific, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific.
The award was presented to BioTek in Phoenix, Arizona at Fisher Scientific’s annual meeting. Fisher Scientific annually presents this award to the supplier that best exemplifies outstanding overall performance and support in a number of categories including percent growth, marketing participation, new product development and on time delivery to help grow Fisher’s North American business. This prestigious award was presented by David Koi...
Kinesis and Trajan Scientific and Medical (Trajan) are pleased to announce Kinesis as an approved distribution partner for the SGE Analytical Science (SGE) range of Chromatography Consumables in the US.
SGE is a Trajan brand, established in 1960 and integrated into Trajan in 2013. The SGE brand is well known for its diamond syringe quality and is the global market leader in niche areas such as autosampler syringes and GC inlet liners. Trajan’s focus is on developing and commercializing technologies that enable analytical systems to be more selective, sensitive and specific for biological, environmental or food related measurements especially...
Offering Medical Laboratories a One-stop Shop for Calibrating a Range of Laboratory Equipment to Comply with ISO 15189
Sartorius UK, a leading laboratory and pharmaceutical equipment supplier, is delighted to announce that it has been granted an extension to its UKAS ISO17025 for servicing centrifuges. This means that medical laboratories can now access UKAS accredited servicing for on-site or remote testing and calibration of pipettes, balances and centrifuges from one UK-based supplier.As part of the drive for standardised quality testing in the UK, medical laboratories...
The first Photonics Technology Roadshow of 2015 visited the University of Southampton in March for a special event celebrating the launch of an EPSRC funded project on the manufacturing and application of Chalcogenide glasses including an exhibition of over 40 companies and a programme of technology tutorials.
Attendance numbers beat previous records for a one-day Roadshow event. Partners within the Chalcogenide Advanced Materials Partnership (ChAMP) conference at Southampton (Heriot-Watt, Exeter, Oxford and Cambridge Universities) were welcomed by Dan Hewak, who leads the ChAMP Partnership. He explained, "Unlike many large research collaborations which hold open days near the end of their project to communicate their results, we...
Greg Clark MP, Minister for Universities, Science and Cities, has announced today that The N8 Research Partnership has secured multi-million pound funding for a programme which is set to transform food security research in the UK.
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has awarded The N8 Research Partnership – a partnership of the eight research-intensive universities in the North of England (Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York) – a grant of £7,999,254 through its Catalyst Fund to develop its Agri-Food Resilience programme. This will be matched equally by the N8 universities. A multi-disciplinary initiative...
Malvern Instruments will showcase their expanding range of products for the life science and industrial sectors at ACHEMA 2015.
The four-day event (15-19 June) being held in Frankfurt, Germany will be the first major European outing for the latest additions to Malvern’s recently acquired MicroCal microcalorimetry range and for the innovative OMNISEC GPC/SEC platform. Visit the Malvern stand in Hall 4.1, stand number D59. Malvern’s products for life scientists provide information to drive drug discovery and development. Center stage will be the recently...
Groundbreaking keynote addresses by Genomics England and Google for Work showcasing global leadership in connectivity and convergence driven innovation at GIL 2015: Europe in London
We are living a connected life in a connected world. Our smartphone is our gateway to the world and very soon we will be able to connect our glasses, watch, thermostat, lights, door locks and car. The connected life market has been valued by Frost & Sullivan at over $700 billion by 2020, but are companies prepared to drive and manage this change to stay ahead of the rapidly evolving world in which we live? Nina Bjornstad, Country Manager at...
Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, in partnership with Cyversa announce the availability of VISTA, a visual approach to thermal analysis.
The product made its debut at TAC 2015, Churchill College, Cambridge, March 30th – April 1st. Linkam Scientific Instruments have collaborated with renowned UK inventor and innovating researcher, Professor Mike Reading of the University of Huddersfield. They have developed a product line of instrumentation based on new technologies that are announced at the 50th Anniversary meeting of the UK's Thermal Methods Group at...
Horizon’s Reference Materials chosen by ArcherDX to validate its FusionPlex test for non-small cell lung cancer markers
Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE:HZD) (Horizon), the international life science company supplying research tools and services that power genomics research and the development of personalized medicines, and ArcherDX, Inc., a leader in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) fusion detection, today announced they have signed an Original Equipment Manufacture (OEM) agreement that will see Horizon’s Reference Materials supplied as a standalone...
Kinesis are pleased to offer you a 25% discount on the entire range of SGE GC capillary columns.
We have highlighted a few commonly used phases and some of the popular unique phases from our comprehensive range, but remember that this fantastic offer is valid for all GC capillary columns from SGE! BP5MS - Optimised Silphenylene content for general purpose MS analyses. BP5For general purpose analyses.BPX5 - Extremely inert, suitable for general purpose analyses. Ideal for trace analysis.HT5 - Unique phase for high temperature...
A new maintenance and upgrade service is available for existing Agilent MRI preclinical imaging equipment, by MR Solutions Ltd, based in Guildford, Surrey.
Following Agilent’s withdrawal from this market, a package of maintenance and upgrade solutions has been developed to ensure that these machines stay abreast of modern technology. MR Solutions with its world leading EVO spectrometer and cryogen free superconducting magnet technology can provide this service for MRI systems designed by Agilent or other manufacturers. Earlier technology can be enhanced by installing not only the...
Following on from the successful launch of subsidiaries in France, the UK and the USA - INTEGRA Biosciences has announced the opening in January 2015 of a new organisation based in Konstanz, Germany.
Leveraging an existing knowledgeable local sales and service team – INTEGRA Biosciences Deutschland GmbH was set up to market and provide top quality local support for the company’s innovative laboratory tools for liquid handling, media preparation, sterilisation and cell cultivation. Jan Müller, General Manager of INTEGRA Biosciences Deutschland GmbH, commented: “We are very happy to announce the opening of this...
Horizon joins select group of companies to receive award for a second time
Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) (Horizon), the leading provider of research tools to support translational genomics and the development of personalized medicines, announced today that it has been named Business of the Year at the Business Weekly Awards, for the second time in the Company’s history. The Business Weekly Awards, which are celebrating their 25th Anniversary, recognize the strongest companies in the East of...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed to provide GBP 46 million for the new 310 bed Papworth Hospital to be constructed on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus next to Addenbrooke's Hospital.
The 31 year loan from Europe’s long-term lending institution for the new Papworth Hospital is the third new hospital to be supported by the EIB in UK this year following confirmation of support for the new Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh and the Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary. “The European Investment Bank is committed to supporting long-term investment that improves lives in the UK and recognises that...
Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation, announce the UK and Ireland availability of the Peltier-controlled cuvette holders and custom instrumentation from Quantum Northwest.
Analytik have been appointed as the exclusive UK and Ireland distributors of Quantum Northwest’s Peltier-controlled cuvette holders and custom instrumentation. The Quantum Northwest products are designed to fit various spectrometers from world famous brands such as Agilent Technologies, Shimadzu, Horiba Scientific, Applied Photophysics, Edinburgh Instruments, ISS, PicoQuant and PTI. Illustrated here is the qpod 2e, a temperature...
XEI Scientific Inc, maker of the popular EVACTRON® De-Contaminator™ Plasma Cleaning System for electron microscopes and other vacuum chambers, has appointed Soquelec Limited as their exclusive distributor for their decontamination products in Canada.
XEI Scientific has appointed a new distributor for Canada. Founded more than forty years ago, Soquelec offers a vast range of microscopy supplies and equipment for the scientific community. Philippe Semana, Managing Director of Soquelec, is excited by the prospect of teaming up with XEI. "XEI is the technology leader with their Evactron De-Contaminator systems. The products are a natural fit to our current portfolio and we are confident...
Today, biomedical big data solutions company GENALICE and Personalized medicine & biotechnology company Macrogen Inc (CEO Hyonyong Chong) jointly announced that Macrogen has chosen GENALICE MAP to reinforce its big data processing and analysis capacity for large-scale genome analysis and clinical sequencing services.
GENALICE MAP is a breakthrough Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data processing solution, which processes genomics data up to 100 times faster than conventional tools. GENALICE MAP produces improved quality outcome data, while radically reducing storage requirements. It is the only product on the market today that makes large-scale genomics data processing effective and affordable. Macrogen provides various genome...
SDL (LSE: SDL) today announced that Waters Corporation, an innovator in the field of analytical chemistry, has selected SDL Knowledge Center to streamline its content creation and management process, drive content reuse and promote standardization of its documentation to deliver a better customer experience.
For more than 50 years, Waters Corporation has developed analytical technologies - hardware, software and chemistries - to advance healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, water quality, consumer product development, and high value-added chemicals. Waters’ technical communications department – a subsidiary of the marketing department – produces numerous installation guides, user manuals, system guides and...
The submission deadline is April 17, 2015. All proposals must be submitted electronically at www.pittcon.org. Proposals for symposia are being sought in all areas of analytical chemistry and applied spectroscopy. In addition to the classical analytical and spectroscopic topics, areas such as bioanalytical chemistry, nanotechnology, environmental analysis, food analysis, forensics, chemical applications in art conservation, education, energy...
Rigaku achieved certification by demonstrating compliance with the industry-accepted, quality management standards for the design, development, manufacture, and support of hardware and software for portable scientific instruments. Rigaku is committed to manufacturing high quality Raman analyzers for the pharmaceutical industry and the achievement of ISO certification will enable the company to continue to lead the way in...
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG), the world leader in niche peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies, has acquired Asepco through its parent company Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc, for £7.0 million. Asepco, based in California USA, specialises in the design and manufacture of high purity aseptic valves and magnetic mixers for the bioprocessing industry. Asepco is a natural extension of the Watson-Marlow...
In addition response levels to the survey, which was conducted in both the USA and UK, was up nearly fourfold. The survey contains a number of questions which allow customers to rate some aspect of the Matrix LIMS products or the service provided by Autoscribe on a scale of 1-10. Every survey question with this metric showed an improvement. Autoscribe Managing Director, John Boother, said: “We are absolutely delighted with...
The award was presented to BioTek in Phoenix, Arizona at Fisher Scientific’s annual meeting. Fisher Scientific annually presents this award to the supplier that best exemplifies outstanding overall performance and support in a number of categories including percent growth, marketing participation, new product development and on time delivery to help grow Fisher’s North American business. This prestigious award was presented by David Koi...
SGE is a Trajan brand, established in 1960 and integrated into Trajan in 2013. The SGE brand is well known for its diamond syringe quality and is the global market leader in niche areas such as autosampler syringes and GC inlet liners. Trajan’s focus is on developing and commercializing technologies that enable analytical systems to be more selective, sensitive and specific for biological, environmental or food related measurements especially...
Sartorius UK, a leading laboratory and pharmaceutical equipment supplier, is delighted to announce that it has been granted an extension to its UKAS ISO17025 for servicing centrifuges. This means that medical laboratories can now access UKAS accredited servicing for on-site or remote testing and calibration of pipettes, balances and centrifuges from one UK-based supplier.As part of the drive for standardised quality testing in the UK, medical laboratories...
Attendance numbers beat previous records for a one-day Roadshow event. Partners within the Chalcogenide Advanced Materials Partnership (ChAMP) conference at Southampton (Heriot-Watt, Exeter, Oxford and Cambridge Universities) were welcomed by Dan Hewak, who leads the ChAMP Partnership. He explained, "Unlike many large research collaborations which hold open days near the end of their project to communicate their results, we...
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has awarded The N8 Research Partnership – a partnership of the eight research-intensive universities in the North of England (Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York) – a grant of £7,999,254 through its Catalyst Fund to develop its Agri-Food Resilience programme. This will be matched equally by the N8 universities. A multi-disciplinary initiative...
The four-day event (15-19 June) being held in Frankfurt, Germany will be the first major European outing for the latest additions to Malvern’s recently acquired MicroCal microcalorimetry range and for the innovative OMNISEC GPC/SEC platform. Visit the Malvern stand in Hall 4.1, stand number D59. Malvern’s products for life scientists provide information to drive drug discovery and development. Center stage will be the recently...
We are living a connected life in a connected world. Our smartphone is our gateway to the world and very soon we will be able to connect our glasses, watch, thermostat, lights, door locks and car. The connected life market has been valued by Frost & Sullivan at over $700 billion by 2020, but are companies prepared to drive and manage this change to stay ahead of the rapidly evolving world in which we live? Nina Bjornstad, Country Manager at...
The product made its debut at TAC 2015, Churchill College, Cambridge, March 30th – April 1st. Linkam Scientific Instruments have collaborated with renowned UK inventor and innovating researcher, Professor Mike Reading of the University of Huddersfield. They have developed a product line of instrumentation based on new technologies that are announced at the 50th Anniversary meeting of the UK's Thermal Methods Group at...
Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE:HZD) (Horizon), the international life science company supplying research tools and services that power genomics research and the development of personalized medicines, and ArcherDX, Inc., a leader in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) fusion detection, today announced they have signed an Original Equipment Manufacture (OEM) agreement that will see Horizon’s Reference Materials supplied as a standalone...
Following Agilent’s withdrawal from this market, a package of maintenance and upgrade solutions has been developed to ensure that these machines stay abreast of modern technology. MR Solutions with its world leading EVO spectrometer and cryogen free superconducting magnet technology can provide this service for MRI systems designed by Agilent or other manufacturers. Earlier technology can be enhanced by installing not only the...
Leveraging an existing knowledgeable local sales and service team – INTEGRA Biosciences Deutschland GmbH was set up to market and provide top quality local support for the company’s innovative laboratory tools for liquid handling, media preparation, sterilisation and cell cultivation. Jan Müller, General Manager of INTEGRA Biosciences Deutschland GmbH, commented: “We are very happy to announce the opening of this...
The 31 year loan from Europe’s long-term lending institution for the new Papworth Hospital is the third new hospital to be supported by the EIB in UK this year following confirmation of support for the new Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh and the Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary. “The European Investment Bank is committed to supporting long-term investment that improves lives in the UK and recognises that...
Analytik have been appointed as the exclusive UK and Ireland distributors of Quantum Northwest’s Peltier-controlled cuvette holders and custom instrumentation. The Quantum Northwest products are designed to fit various spectrometers from world famous brands such as Agilent Technologies, Shimadzu, Horiba Scientific, Applied Photophysics, Edinburgh Instruments, ISS, PicoQuant and PTI. Illustrated here is the qpod 2e, a temperature...
XEI Scientific has appointed a new distributor for Canada. Founded more than forty years ago, Soquelec offers a vast range of microscopy supplies and equipment for the scientific community. Philippe Semana, Managing Director of Soquelec, is excited by the prospect of teaming up with XEI. "XEI is the technology leader with their Evactron De-Contaminator systems. The products are a natural fit to our current portfolio and we are confident...
GENALICE MAP is a breakthrough Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data processing solution, which processes genomics data up to 100 times faster than conventional tools. GENALICE MAP produces improved quality outcome data, while radically reducing storage requirements. It is the only product on the market today that makes large-scale genomics data processing effective and affordable. Macrogen provides various genome...
For more than 50 years, Waters Corporation has developed analytical technologies - hardware, software and chemistries - to advance healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, water quality, consumer product development, and high value-added chemicals. Waters’ technical communications department – a subsidiary of the marketing department – produces numerous installation guides, user manuals, system guides and...