Glen Creston – ‘Leaders in Size reduction’ will take the stage again at the Recycling Waste Management exhibition held in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Critics say ‘Glen Creston manufactures and supplies an extensive range of quality standard machines for grinding, mixing, crushing and dispersion applications as well as bespoke machines to customer's requirements for grinding and crushing applications’. In the lead role, following a successful career crushing a wide range of materials from coal to power station bottom ash, will be the newly re-developed Roller Crusher. The Swing hammer mill and Endecotts Test sieves will be in supporting roles, following their successful run last year.

Analytik Jena UK will be celebrating the 50^th anniversary of the SPECORD^® range of spectrophotometers at the Lab Innovations exhibition by showing the SPECORD^® 210 Plus double beam UV/Vis instrument. The multi N/C 3100 and the multi N/C UV HS TOC analysers will also be on show, reflecting the fact that the company also has decades of experience in this field of analysis.

Leading UK digital clinical imaging specialists, Vision Source, announce their appointment as Leica Biosystems authorized distributors for their clinical microscopes.

Vision Source is very pleased to announce their appointment as UK authorized distributors for Leica Biosystems range of clinical microscopes. Further to acquiring assets and the hiring of staff from former dealers, Optivision, Vision Source are committed to a seamless integration of Leica's products into their portfolio offering users old and new continued excellent service and support. Product specialist, David Knipe, heads up this new business division for Vision Source...

Dr E Neil Lewis, Chief Technology Officer at Malvern Instruments and Head of the company’s Bioscience Development Initiative, will speak at the International BioAnalytical Congress taking place in Berlin (Germany) on 11 and 12 September 2013.

SPECTRO Analytical UK will showcase the new SPECTROBLUE TI inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES) at Lab Innovations 2013 (6 - 7 November 2013, National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK).

This innovative system extends the company’s SPECTROBLUE ICP-OES product line, offering automatic dual plasma observation. This optimizes linearity and dynamic range, while enabling high-sensitivity measurement of toxic elements, which makes it especially suitable for environmental analyses. While matrix effects are drastically reduced, it can accurately determine levels of alkali/earth alkali elements in complex alkali matrices....

Visit Spectro Analytical on stand number A23

Markes International (Llantrisant, UK), a specialist manufacturer of innovative analytical instrumentation for trace organic analysis, has announced the appointment of two key new directors to strengthen its management team.

Terry Buckland joins as Sales & Service Director after a successful 20-year career with some of the world’s biggest scientific instrumentation companies, including: Applied Biosciences, Varian and Agilent Technologies. Tim Hawkins, the new Finance Director, joins from the corporate finance team of accountancy giants PricewaterhouseCoopers. Both appointments come after the German family-owned business, Schauenburg International Group, acquired a majority stake in Markes earlier this year...

Nanounity announces that their partners, Delmic BV, have won one of the ten 2013 Microscopy Today Innovation Awards for their release of the SECOM correlative microscopy system. The award presentation ceremony is being made today at the Microscopy & Microanalysis meeting in Indianapolis, USA.

Each year, the publication, Microscopy Today under the stewardship of its editor, Dr Charles Lyman from Lehigh University, make awards at the annual Microscopy & Microanalysis meeting. In 2013, the meeting is being held in Indianapolis with awards going to companies in the following product areas: light microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, electron microscopy and microanalysis. Two additional awards go to innovative technologies not already covered...

Bibby Scientific’s online sale has proved such a hit with customers that the company is extending the up to 20% discounts available right through to 30 September 2013.

There are savings to be made on selected items purchased directly through the Bibby Scientific online shop. These include heating mantles, pH meters, vortex mixers, melting point analysers, thermal cyclers and block heaters from Bibby Scientific’s Techne, Electrothermal, Stuart and Jenway brands. Bibby Scientific’s webshop has been a huge success since its launch early this year. Chris Edmans, Senior Technician in the Institute of Life Sciences at Edinburgh Napier University, UK, and June’s winner of the Bibby webshop iPad draw said, “I find the Bibby Scientific online shop very straightforward and easy to use...

Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL) and Institute for Biopharmaceutical Research (IBR, Inc.) Partner to Provide Pipette Calibration Solutions for GLP and GMP Compliant Laboratories

Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a premier supplier of Laboratory Data Management Solutions is excited to announce a new partnership with Institute for Biopharmaceutical Research (IBR, Inc.) - a leader in turnkey calibration software. ATL is the North American Partner for IBR and will be offering Check&Track v2.0 to GLP and GMP compliant laboratories. Check&Track v2.0 offers just-in-time management of certification and recordkeeping for pipettes, specific to ISO 9000, ISO 8655, DIN 12650 and NCCLS requirements...

Forensics Europe Expo 2014 Sales Brochure Available to Download Today

Forensics Europe Expo 29-30 April 2014, Olympia, London is pleased to announce the release of the 2014 Sales Brochure which contains important advice and information about the event to help forensics companies plan their 2014 marketing spend. The success of Forensics Europe Expo 2013 has established the event as the premier dedicated international forum for the entire forensics sector and supply chain to meet and do business....

Porvair Sciences has announced a new version of its Chemical Compatibility Chart that provides an easy-touse reference guide detailing the chemical resistance of membranes and matrices used in microplates to a wide range of common laboratory chemicals.

Employing tests performed at room temperature (25°C) - Porvair has compiled data as to the compatibility of different microplate matrices and membranes to a wide range of acids, alcohols, bases, esters, hydrocarbons /chlorinated hydrocarbons, ketones and other chemicals. In the tabulated chart - chemical compatibility data for each microplate material is listed as ‘suitable’, ‘ok for medium term use’ or ‘unsuitable’ thereby offering lab scientists the information to enable selection of just microplates constructed from materials optimised for their application...

Biofortuna, a UK based molecular diagnostics company with a proprietary stabilisation technology for molecular reagents, is expanding its custom service and manufacturing business with a £1.3m investment.

The new funds will enable the business to expand its freeze drying analysis and manufacturing capability to support both its custom service clients and the USA launch of its SSPGo HLA range of products through Abbott Molecular. The funding was supported by all of the company’s current investors; the Foresight Group (UK), EV Group, Catapult Venture Managers, Merseyside Special Investment Fund, private investors and management...

Thermo Fisher Scientific Establishes Pesticide Analysis Center of Excellence. Expertise, technology and knowledge-sharing available to food and environmental analysts.

Government and industry laboratories worldwide have a new resource for improving methods for monitoring and measuring pesticides in food and the environment. The new Thermo Fisher Scientific Pesticide Analysis Center of Excellence (COE) recently opened its doors in Runcorn, UK to help users apply the latest technology and expertise to challenging pesticide analysis in food and environmental laboratories...

EBCG is pleased to announce an exceptional event: Medical Devices Project & Portfolio Management Toolbox.

Building on success of their Toolbox series within Pharmaceutical and Chemical industry the Medical Devices PPM Toolbox aims to be Europe's leading conference to project and portfolio experts in medical devices industry. Due to the new game and rules on the market, it is necessary for medical device companies to develop effective portfolio management processes. They need to select those product ideas that have the greatest commercial potential, and thereby will maximize the return on their investments....

Once a James Bond fantasy, diamond-based lasers are now becoming a reality.

Ground-breaking research is harnessing the unique properties of diamonds to develop a new generation of lasers that could lead to many benefits, from better treatment of skin complaints and diabetes-related eye conditions to improved pollution monitoring and aeronautical engineering. A University of Strathclyde team has developed a new type of high-performance, ultra-versatile Raman laser* that harnesses diamonds to produce light beams with more power and a wider range of colours than current Raman lasers...

World’s largest supplier of custom nucleic acids opens SGD 6 million manufacturing facility in Singapore

Already the world’s leader in custom nucleic acid synthesis, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) has expanded its manufacturing capabilities to Singapore. IDT is now able to provide locally-manufactured oligonucleotides to researchers in Singapore and throughout the region from the company’s first synthesis facility in Asia. In January of 2012, IDT acquired the oligo business of Singapore’s top supplier, 1st BASE Pte. Ltd. Shortly thereafter, IDT began work to create a state-of-the art hub for oligo manufacturing and support dedicated to the Asian market. IDT completed the nearly SGD 6 million project in spring of 2013, and the Singapore company’s synthesis and other processes are now fully integrated with IDT’s operations in the US and Europe...

Multi-ion beam platform from ZEISS enables new solutions for the challenges faced in nanofabrication

At the Microscopy & Microanalysis trade show in Indianapolis, ZEISS ORION NanoFab received the 2013 Microscopy Today Innovation Award. Microscopy Today magazine annually presents this award to techniques and instruments that play a major role in progressing the field of microscopy. ORION NanoFab is a nanofabrication tool that integrates helium, neon, and gallium focused ion beams on a single platform. The helium and neon ion beams are based on the gas field ion source (GFIS) technology...

HORIBA Jobin Yvon S.A.S. (Palaiseau, France), operating worldwide under the name of HORIBA Scientific, is pleased to announce its recent agreement with AIST-NT (Novato, CA, USA) to distribute their Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM) product line in most of Europe, China and South America.

AIST-NT is a manufacturer of advanced SPM systems designed specifically for integration with optical spectroscopy, and has been a partner of HORIBA Scientific for AFM-Raman and Tip Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS) system integration for several years. HORIBA Scientific is a leading spectroscopy equipment manufacturer, and is the leader in Raman microscopy. With the growing interest for nano-spectroscopy and TERS, HORIBA Scientific has collaborated with several SPM manufacturers to deliver a wide range of combined solutions...

The European commission has awarded a grant of 1.7 million Euros to fund the data centre industry's first major government-funded research and development program. The project will be led by the Data Centre Alliance (DCA) and the University of East London (UEL) supported by a European consortium of academics, regional governments and industry.

The program, called PEDCA, the Pan-European DCA project, came about as a result of industry body DCA identifying with its members that the data centre sector had never had the benefits enjoyed by most major industries of government funded research. Said DCA executive director Simon Campbell-Whyte, “It seems incredible that a sector as important to the European economy as data centres  – which every other sector now relies upon for its operations – has never had any independent government funded research into best practice, sustainability, energy reduction or training needs...

A presentation by technology specialist Dr Richard Tweedie, given as part of the recent UK Formulation Showcase at NanoFormulation 2013 (18-21 June 2013, University of Manchester, UK), illustrated the mutual benefits of an ‘open innovation’ approach to product development.

His talk focused on the ‘open innovation’ pathway adopted by Malvern Instruments in collaboration with The University of Leeds in the UK to develop the Aero S, one of the key sample dispersion systems for Malvern’s Mastersizer 3000 laser diffraction particle size analyzer. The Aero S dry powder disperser was launched alongside the Mastersizer 3000 in September 2011 and immediately delivered new capabilities to laser diffraction users, extending dry powder dispersion to even the most fragile materials...

Get 50% off BioStack™ when purchased with a Synergy™ Neo Multi-Mode Microplate Reader

Super-fast walkaway automation at a super-low price! Synergy Neo HTS Multi-Mode Microplate Reader is designed specifically for today’s screening and core laboratories. Synergy Neo has all the features you would expect from an HTS instrument, including multiple parallel detectors for ultra-fast measurements, laser-based excitation, super-fast plate stacker and high sensitivity on low volume assays. With a transfer time of about 6 seconds per plate, Synergy Neo’s BioStack plate stacker is the fastest on the market, allowing walk-away automation for short- or long-term assays...

Xylem’s YSI Integrated Systems and Services (ISS) has been awarded a contract for five marine monitoring buoys by The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC). The buoys will collect high-quality data for researchers studying climate change in the Caribbean Sea, including the waters of Barbados, Belize, Dominican Republic, St. Lucia, and Trinidad & Tobago. 

“The Caribbean is a unique part of the world. Our waters are the ‘bread basket’ for the region, and we must be diligent in protecting and sustaining them,” says Dr. Kenrick Leslie, CCCCC executive director. “We are very excited to build our education and research infrastructure with the addition of this important technology project for addressing the impacts of climate change on the Caribbean ecosystem....