SHOW REVIEW
NEW PRODUCTS ON SHOW AT PITTCON 2013 Bundled Solutions for Systems Biology
Leco Corporation and AB Sciex announced combined chromatography/mass spectroscopy solutions for measurement of analytes in biological systems. Metabolomics researchers would have at their disposal pairings of time-tested nominal mass systems as well as industry-leading high performance GC-TOF and LC-QTOF MS systems. The application support and service teams of both companies will work together to ensure that users get the support they need to run their comprehensive experiments.
"As an industry leader in LC/MS, we interact with metabolomics researchers all over the world, and we understand that there are times when metabolomics researchers want to use both GC/MS and LC/MS," said Aaron Hudson, Senior Director, Academic and Omics Business, AB Sciex. "Representing a virtual one-stop shop for metabolomics mass spectrometry, the joint bundles from AB Sciex and Leco provide users with greater flexibility in chromatography while obtaining the rich information that MS/MS delivers."
"Bringing together leaders in GC/MS and LC/MS and facilitating the availability of our systems as complementary technologies helps ensure that metabolomics researchers can approach their work to obtain the very best data and information available," said Jeffrey Patrick, Director of Marketed Technologies for Leco. "Our leadership in GC/MS technologies is a perfect complement to the offerings of AB Sciex and puts the combined power of our product portfolios, expertise, services, and support to work for these researchers."
The joint bundles from AB Sciex and Leco will be available in North America and Europe.
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Connecting Analytical Content with Chemical Context
ACD/Labs announced the commercial availability of ACD/Spectrus DB. This powerful database is at the core of the Spectrus integrated analytical and chemical knowledge management platform and is the culmination of a three-year effort resulting in the completion of the Spectrus platform which provides a variety of productivity-increasing enhancements, collaborative science, and the preservation of analytical intelligence.
The platform puts an end to the ‘one-and-done’ life cycle of analytical data to aid chemistry groups who are trying to maximise their return on investment for data generation. With the Spectrus platform, ACD/Labs builds upon its broadly accepted desktop applications and unique algorithms to unify chemical and analytical information into a homogeneous environment.
Live data can be searched and re-analysed, and chemical intelligence re-applied. The result is a ‘one-to-many’ information-from-intelligence live cycle that brings unified laboratory intelligence to scientists all across the chemistry organisation. Spectrus DB can also be integrated with existing informatics systems to enhance their capabilities and achieve maximum return on investment.
The Spectrus DB can be easily configured to meet the needs of individual organisations and laboratories. Customisation can add automated processing and interpretation for higher productivity, while sample tracking and visualisation may be added to meet workflow requirements.
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Instruments Meet Challenging Applications
Bruker CAM division featured its the double-award winning SCION GC-MS TQ alongside the EVOQ LC-MS/MS TQ and aurora Elite ICP-MS, both making their Pittcon debut. All three instruments focus on ease of use, software enablement, sensitivity and also address the need to power the business of quantitation.
The EVOQ Elite LC-MS was also said to set new standards for sensitivity and performance, incorporating VIP-Heated ESI, Active Exhaust, Orifice Interface and exception-based data review software.
The aurora Elite ICP-MS available at 1.5 GHz/ppm, offers scan speeds and 100 µs integration times and is engineered to provide robust plasma conditions for complete matrix decomposition. It meets compliance for the use in the pharmaceutical industry with full 21 CFR Part
11 compliance support.
“Our product specialists have created this range of industry leading instruments through continually innovating to reflect the requirements of today and tomorrows analytical challenges and applications”, commented Rohan Thakur, Vice President of Bruker CAM. The company serves markets in food safety, environmental monitoring, water monitoring, forensic sciences, petrochemical and pharmaceutical research.
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Heating with Ease and Safety
Carbolite exhibited its range of furnaces and ovens for laboratory applications. Heat-treatment instruments included the HST 12 Horizontal Split Tube furnace, which allows easy exchange of worktubes for different applications. The CWF box furnace, with hard wearing refractory insulation and a robust design which ensures that the hot face of the door faces away from the operator when opened, was also on show. The company’s portfolio offered by Carbolite includes both elite laboratory chamber/box furnaces & laboratory tube furnaces to 1800°C. Tube furnaces are available as single or multi-zone, horizontal/vertical, split & rotating models. A wide variety of tube diameters and tube heated lengths is available. Chamber/box furnaces are available in many sizes and models include high temperature furnaces, ashing/calcining furnaces, furnaces for the analysis of coal and coke and precious metals evaluation furnaces (cupellation/fire assay). Pilot plant and industrial furnaces and industrial ovens for various heat treatment applications are also offered.
Having joined the laboratory division of Verder International BV in 2012, Carbolite attended the exhibition alongside fellow Verder group member Retsch, specialists in the fields of homogenising laboratory samples for analysis as well as particle size analysis of solid substances. Through Retsch Technology the company also develops optical measuring systems for particle characterisation based on dynamic image analysis and laser light scattering, spanning from 0.3nm to 30mm.
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Edwards Group Ltd exhibited a range of high performance vacuum equipment and for the first time had a dedicated team of technology experts available for its ‘Challenge Us’ campaign which invited customers to bring their current vacuum application challenges to the booth for discussion.
Displayed was the new nXDS dry scroll pump; its pumping speeds, ultimate pressures, low acoustic noise levels and reduced power consumption, make it an ideal ‘fit and forget’ pump for the laboratory.
The nEXT turbomolecular pump, which received the 2012 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation, has a modular design for rapid customisation to meet specific customer requirements. The compact T-station 75 turbopumping cart can produce required vacuum up to twice as fast as some competitive products through higher capacity backing pumps, making it an excellent ‘plug and play’ solution for those wanting to achieve high vacuum quickly and simply.
Reporting from the show David Steele, Market Sector Manager, Edwards said: “We are excited to be attending Pittcon 2013 with a range of high quality products. We are looking for customers to come to our stand, share their challenges and allow us to demonstrate our expertise in the field of vacuum through helping to identify practical solutions. Edwards’ success has not only been down to the innovative products we are able to supply, but by partnering with our customers and providing solutions for the challenges of tomorrow. This is backed by the largest customer service footprint in the industry.”
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Pittcon remains the premier instrumentation show in the USA with many of the key decision makers attending
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