In this latest video you will hear why people are choosing F-DSi Gas Generators over their other competitors.

End users talk about their experience of using FDGSi gas generators and share their feedback on the products and quality of service provided. Whatever are your needs, F-DSi gas generators enable you to produce Nitrogen, Hydrogen, Pure Air with purities higher than 99,9999%.

Genevac reports that its HT Series II  Evaporator using the Fast Lyophilisation, or LyoSpeed™ process is enabling a growing number of pharmaceutical labs to routinely dry HPLC fraction samples to a powder form, such that the samples can then be accurately weighed, easily sub-sampled and redissolved.

When working with certain HPLC solvents, such as water and acetonitrile, a fully dried result can be hard to achieve due to interactions with the dissolved sample - resulting in the formation of a gum or oil. To provide a rapid, high-throughput alternative to freeze drying HPLC purification fractions - Genevac developed its proprietary fast lyophilisation (LyoSpeed™) methodology for use on the HT Series II Evaporators. While LyoSpeed™ works well for most hydrophilic samples, difficulties may arise where the sample cannot dissolve in only water...

The ‘mercur’ from Analytik Jena UK is a compact system specially optimised for the complete, cost-efficient determination of mercury traces to the ng level.

The instrument guarantees mercury analyses in accordance with EPA 1631, EPA 245.1, EPA 245.2, EPA 245.7, EN 1483, EN 12338, EN 13806 and EN 13506. The ‘mercur’ is available in atomic fluorescence (AFS), atomic absorption (AAS) and combined (DUO) versions.  With excellent detection limits and a wide linear measuring range, atomic fluorescence spectrometry is often the method of choice in mercury trace analysis...

The launch of the Viscotek SEC-MALS 20 brings new standards of performance and greater choice in gel permeation/size exclusion chromatography (GPC/SEC) and extends the Malvern Instruments family of light scattering detectors for measuring the absolute molecular weight of proteins, macromolecules and polymers.

Malvern’s Viscotek range now includes cost-effective options with unsurpassed performance for every type of light scattering detection – low angle, right angle and multi angle – allowing Malvern to answer every GPC/SEC challenge with the most appropriate technology. With this extension to its detectors range, Malvern becomes the only vendor to offer all light scattering options....

With the Flexar™ PDA Plus™, the latest addition to the PerkinElmer Flexar liquid chromatography product family, scientists analyzing environmental, food, pharmaceutical and chemical samples can now better meet industry regulations and higher throughput demand.

This innovative technology brings the flexibility of modular design, the power of sensitivity and accuracy and the fastest sampling speeds to the most optically advanced photo diode array (PDA) detector on the market. Its design encompasses the widest detection range of any PDA detector on the market and rivals or exceeds that of conventional UV detectors. Delivering improved 2D and 3D chromatographic information, the PDA detector streamlines analysis with the following features...

Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical solutions to the UK and Ireland, are pleased to announce their exclusive representation of SciAps' range of handheld Raman spectrometers. The new Inspector series offers a 785 nm or 1030 nm laser for users across the materials characterisation spectrum.

Analytik announces a new era in handheld Raman materials identification systems with the launch of the SciAps Inspector series in the UK & Ireland. The new generation of SciAps Inspector, the world's most powerful Raman handheld materials identification system, is now available. For more than ten years, Inspector Raman®, with its patented, free space platform, has evolved to meet expanding customer requirements. The innovative, redesigned portable Inspector series enables Raman material discrimination of a wider range of samples by eliminating unwanted sample and background fluorescence....

New MEDICA Pro EDI Water Purification System for clinical diagnostic laboratories

PULSE EDI technology and unique recirculation for economical and consistent high purity water. ELGA Process Water, a Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies company, introduces the MEDICA Pro EDI - a new EDI (Electrodeionisation) water purification system for clinical diagnostic market. The MEDICA Pro EDI has been developed to produce consistently high purity water at economical running costs for a wide range of applications in modern clinical laboratory including immunochemistry and general chemistry automatic clinical analysers...

The new Chromatography Columns and Supplies Catalogue 9 from Hichrom Limited has arrived. With 384 pages of detailed chromatography product information and other useful technical data, this catalogue is an essential tool for every laboratory.

Contained within the catalogue is information on over 100 LC column brands and details of products from over 35 chromatography suppliers. In addition to HPLC, UHPLC and superficially porous particle columns, the new catalogue contains details of SFC, GC, SPE, TLC, Flash, CE, LC-MS and GC-MS products. Vials, syringe filters, tubing, fittings and other chromatography accessories are also included.....

Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed an accurate and reproducible high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method for the single-injection determination of tolterodine and tartrate—the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) and its counterion—in an encapsulated drug product containing tolterodine tartrate.

Application Note 1047: Simultaneous Determination of Tartaric Acid and Tolterodine in Tolterodine Tartrate demonstrates that this method requires only 13 minutes per analysis. This new approach uses a trimode silica-based column and a detector that is ideal for the determination of counterions, many of which lack a chromophore. Pharmaceutical companies must ensure that a drug product contains the appropriate amount of its API. This is typically validated with an HPLC-based assay...

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., the world leader in serving science, recently launched the Thermo Scientific SureStop 9 mm Vial.

It is designed as part of the Advanced Vial Closure System (AVCS), and removes any subjectivity around achieving the optimal compression of the septum when sealing a chromatography vial. As an integral component of AVCS technology, SureStop 9 mm vials offer the sealing and performance characteristics of a crimp top vial with the versatility and convenience of a threaded vial...

Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a new GC-MS method for the analysis of semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) in accordance with U S. EPA Method 8270 using hydrogen carrier gas.

Key modifications to both GC and MS hardware and methods are necessary for successfully switching to hydrogen. Fast GC-MS Analysis of Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds: Migrating from Helium to Hydrogen as a Carrier Gas in US EPA Method 8270, featuresthe Thermo Scientific™ TRACE™ 1310 GC coupled to a Thermo Scientific™ ISQ™ single quadrupole mass spectrometer using hydrogen as a carrier gas. The final, optimized EPA Method 8270 is fully migrated to hydrogen carrier gas with improved peak shape, resolution, and run time...

Xmark Media the organisers of Photonex, the UK's showcase photonics event dedicated to applied optical equipment, biophotonics, fibre optics, lasers, sensing, vision & LIGHT announces the 2013 event. This will be held on the 16 & 17^th October at the visitor-friendly Ricoh Arena in Coventry.

Photonics finds ever more uses in research, industry and the consumer environment. Photonics technologies are of increasing importance to scientific research and for industry. Its use is growing by the day as is the Photonex 2013 conference and exhibition. Photonex organisers, Xmark Media, report that there will be a larger exhibit this year featuring an increasingly diverse range of products & services which will ensure the event continues to attract visitors from around the world...

Kinesis has launched its own range of syringe filters.

Available in a wide choice of membranes and diameters, KX Syringe Filters reliably and reproducibly filter all sample types from small volume biological fluids to large volume environmental samples. Choose from the following membranes, Glass Fibre, Nylon, PES, Polypropylene, PTFE, Hydrophilic PTFE, PVDF, Mixed Cellulose Esters and Regenerated Cellulose for all aqueous and non-aqueous samples...

The New AxION iQT GC/MS/MS System Combines the Quantitative Power of a Triple Quad with the Identification Capabilities of a Q-TOF in a Faster, Modular and Easier to Operate Instrument

At the 2013 American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference, PerkinElmer Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, introduced the AxION iQT gas chromatography tandem mass spectrometer (GC/MS/MS). The AxION iQT system provides greater quantitative capabilities to that of a triple quadrupole, while quickly identifying compounds like a quadrupole time-of-flight (Q-TOF) at a rate of up to 500 compounds per second. The new mass spectrometer provides laboratories with easier to use technology, faster results, and more specific, selective data needed to make more accurate decisions faster.....

Malvern Instruments has published ‘Static Light Scattering Technologies For GPC/SEC Explained’, a valuable guide for anyone assessing the value of a light scattering detector for gel permeation/size exclusion chromatography (GPC/SEC).

Kinesis has published a new Application Note: Extraction of Metaldehyde, Geosmin and 2-Methylisoborneol from Water

The latest TELOS^® SPE Application Note from Kinesis highlights the extraction of Metaldehyde, Geosmin and 2-Methylisoborneol from Water. Metaldehyde is a molluscicide whose use has markedly increased in recent years as a result of changing agricultural practices. Geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol (MIB) are naturally occurring alicyclic alcohols which possess potent earthy/musty taste and odour tainting properties. They can occur in raw and potable waters as metabolites derived from various micro-organisms...

A series of technical papers are available from Genevac that demonstrate the advantages and benefits that their proprietary SampleGenie technology offers to chemical, environmental and food labs tasked with pooling and concentrating GC and HPLC  fractions.

Traditional protocols for concentration of GC or HPLC fractions has involved drying multiple fractions in an evaporator, re-suspending pooled fractions into a single vial and then re-drying before storage and analysis.  Even with modern centrifugal evaporators such processes typically take 2-3 days to complete. The development of SampleGenie™ technology enables samples in Genevac evaporators to be concentrated, without loss of volatile components, directly into a single GC or HPLC vial eliminating the need for reformatting of samples after drying...

Researchers in Denmark have measured the quantities of greenhouse gases in the breath of dairy cows and demonstrated a heritable variability between individual animals. 

“This means that we have an opportunity to select for breeding those individuals which will produce offspring that generate less methane,” says Dr Jan Lassen who led the research project on individual methane measurements from dairy cows at Aarhus University. Over the last 60 years, dairy cattle have been selectively bred to maximise milk production and as a result, cows have become extremely efficient at converting food such as grass, silage, hay and concentrates into agricultural products such as milk and meat. At the same time, feed quality, ration formulation and herd management have all contributed to the overall increase on productivity...

Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed an ion chromatography method for nuclear power plants (NPPs) that determines trace concentrations (less than 1 µg/L) of fluoride, chloride, and sulfate in simulated secondary feed water that contains ethanolamine, hydrazine, and polyacrylic acid in just 20 minutes.

Application Brief (AB) 151: Determination of Trace Anions in Nuclear Power Plant Secondary Feed Water Containing Polyacrylic Acid demonstrates excellent retention time and peak area reproducibilities from 69 consecutive injections of a spiked simulated sample...

Organomation presents one of their most advanced accessories to date, a newly revamped Nitrogen Generator. This compact unit will provide laboratory technicians with their own source of nitrogen for reduced cost and increased productivity.

Sales and Marketing Manager David Oliva stated that "one of the main concerns related to using blow down evaporators is the cost of nitrogen consumption over time.  Our newly designed nitrogen generator will help users avoid the costs associated with purchasing and replacing nitrogen tanks."...

New automated particle location and chemical characterization tool

HORIBA Scientific, a leading innovator in the manufacture of high performance scientific and analytical equipment, is announcing the launch of their new ParticleFinder module for the LabSpec 6 Spectroscopy Suite. In combination with the full range of HORIBA Raman microscopes ParticleFinder brings a new level of automation and ease of use for particle analysts who require the unique chemical characterization tools that Raman can offer...

Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed an efficient high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method using ultraviolet detection for the simultaneous determination in drinking water of all 19 phthalate compounds listed in key environmental regulatory documents.

Application Note 1045: Determination of Phthalates in Drinking Water by UHPLC with UV Detection demonstrates that the phthalates listed in European Union Directive 2005/84/EC, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Methods 606 and 8061A, the Chinese HJ/T 72-2001, and the Standardization Administration of China GB/T 20388-2006 and GB/T 21911-2008 are well separated on a reversed-phase HPLC column in less than 25 minutes...