High Tech Separations News articles from September 1999

High Tech Separations News archives from September 1999

LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY Genesis Adds Lightning Phase.
September 19, 1999... Jones Chromatography, Inc. (Box 280329, 13701 West Jewell Ave., Lakewood, CO; Tel: 800/874-6244, Fax: 303/988-9478) has incorporated lightning columns, for liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC- MS) applications, into its Genesis...

Hypersil Boosts Low-Metal Silica Line.
September 19, 1999... Hypersil (300 Second Ave., Needham Heights, MA 02494; Tel: 781/453- 2990, Fax: 781/453-2992) has introduced a high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) column line based on its silica with total metal content less than 10 parts per...

Phases Limit Polar Separation.
September 19, 1999... MAC-MOD Analytical (Box 2600, 127 Commons Court, Chadds Ford, PA 19317; Tel: 800/441-7508, Fax: 610/358-5993) has introduced the Hydrobond AQ and the Hydrobond PS high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) phases to address the problem of...

Packings Scavenge Combo Chemistry.
September 19, 1999... Hewlett Packard (HP, Little Falls Analytical Div., 2850 Centerville Rd., Wilmington, DE 19808-1610; Tel: 302/633-8457, Fax: 302/633-8902) has introduced CombiZorb column packings for use as scavengers in combinatorial chemistry, says product...

Keystone Expands Betasil Phase.
September 19, 1999... Keystone Scientific (320 Rolling Ridge Dr., Penn Eagle Industrial Park, Bellefonte, PA 16823-8812; Tel: 814/353-2300, Fax: 814/353-2305) has introduced a 10-micron C18 Betasil phase for chromatographers who want to do preparative and...

CHIRAL CHROMATOGRAPHY Process Separates Mevalonolactone.
September 19, 1999... Daicel Chemical Industries (Sakai 1, Teppo-cho, Sakai-shi, Osaka 590, Japan; Tel: +81 722-27-3111, Fax: +81 722-27-3000) has continued its domination of the chiral market with a method for separating the optically active isomers of...

CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS: Metabolic Cytometry Analyzes Single Cells.
September 19, 1999... Metabolic cytometry has allowed Norman Dovichi of the University of Alberta (Dept. of Chemistry, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G2; Tel: 780/492-2845, Fax: 780/492-8231) to detect the excretion of proteins in single cells, as the cells...

Array Irradiated/Labels Detected.
September 19, 1999... Hitachi, Ltd. (4-6, Kanda-Surugada, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8010, Japan; Tel: 03-3258-1111, Fax: 03-3258-5480) scientists have invented a capillary array electrophoresis system that can laser irradiate a number of capillaries at one time. In...

GEL ELECTROPHORESIS: Cup Shape Allows Use of Isotachophoresis.
September 19, 1999... A cup-shaped vertical electrophoresis device invented by California engineers Rong Guo and Qi-Feng Ma (28271 Trailriders Dr., Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275) allows the isotachophoresis technique to be applied to agarose gel slabs for higher...

MEDIA: Metal Complex Makes Cheaper Reverse Phase.
September 19, 1999... Downstream Media, Ltd. (8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1HH, U.K.; Tel: +44 (0) 117 928 7172, Fax: +44 (0) 117 925 4975) has found a less expensive way to manufacture a non-polar silica surface for reverse phase chromatography. Reverse...

INSTRUMENTATION: Hardware System Has Quarter-Turn Fittings.
September 19, 1999... Optimize Technologies, Inc. (13993 Fir St., Oregon City, OR 97045; Tel: 800/669-9015, Fax: 503/557-9995) has introduced Opti-Lynx, a low- dispersion, high-pressure, quick-connect hardware system for high- performance liquid chromatography...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Beckman, Amersham Link for Drug Screen.
September 19, 1999... Beckman Coulter (2500 Harbor Blvd., Fullerton, CA 92634-3100; Tel: 800/742-2345, Fax: 800/643-4366) agreed with Amersham Pharmacia Biotech to develop automation technology for Amersham's Leadseeker homogenous imaging drug screening system....

Texas Blood Center Selects Pall Filters.
September 19, 1999... The Coffee Memorial Blood Center (Amarillo, TX) has selected Pall Corp. (2200 Northern Blvd., East Hills, NY; Tel: 516/484-5400, Fax: 516/484- 3649) filters to reduce leukocytes (white blood cells) in all blood products for the 22 hospitals...

PharmaPrint Consolidates Services.
September 19, 1999... PharmaPrint, Inc. (5 Park Plaza, Suite 770, Irvine, CA 92714; Tel: 949/794-7778) has agreed with Ft. Worth, Texas-based Lone Star Pharmaceuticals, Inc., for Lone Star's micro-coating, encapsulation, packaging, warehousing, and laboratory...

Anchor Starts Sepragen Production.
September 19, 1999... Hamilton, New Zealand-based Anchor Products, Ltd. has begun the commercial production of purified protein using the Sepragen (30689 Huntwood Dr., Hayward, CA 94544; Tel: 510/476-0650, Fax: 510/476- 0655) Sepralac process, with the capacity...

Dionex Corp.
September 19, 1999... Dionex Corp. (1228 Titan Way, Box 3601, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-3803; Tel: 408/481-4459) has promoted Michael Merion to vice president of worldwide marketing. Merion joined Dionex in 1993 as markets manager and was promoted to director of...

BioRad.
September 19, 1999... BioRad (2000 Alfred Nobel Dr., Hercules, CA 94547; Tel: 510/741-1000, Fax: 510/741-5800) second quarter net sales reached $115.8 million, compared to $107.9 million in the second quarter of 1998. Sales increased 13.9% in life science and...

O. I. Corp.
September 19, 1999... O. I. Corp. (151 Graham Rd., College Station, TX 77842; Tel: 409/690-1711, Fax: 409/690-0440) net sales for the second quarter increased 18% to $6,798,000, compared to $5,752,000 for 1998, primarily because of the acquisition of GAC in...

TECHNIQUES: Columns Separate Proteins in Seconds.
September 19, 1999... Porous, polymer-based, monolithic disk-shaped columns developed by BIA Separations d.o.o. (Teslova 30, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Tel: 386 61 126 5649, Fax: 386 61 126 5650) can carry out the high resolution separation of proteins in...

Phytosol Extraction Crosses the Pond.
September 19, 1999... Advanced phytonics, an extraction technology developed in the U.K., has found a North American licenser. R.C. Costello & Associates (1611 S. Pacific Coast Hwy., Suite 210, Redondo, Beach, CA 90277; Tel: 310/792-5870, Fax: 310/792-5877) hopes...

Satisfied Recycler to Sell Membrane System.
September 19, 1999... A Portland, Oregon recycler expects to cut processing costs by more than 50% by switching membrane filter devices at its two Oregon re- refining plants. Recycling Centers of America, Inc. (RCAI, 23832 Rockfield Blvd., Suite 275, Lake Forest,...

SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS: Use of Modified ELSD Opens Detector Options.
September 19, 1999... Applying modified evaporative light scattering detectors (ELSDs) to on-line supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) and to supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) opens detection options, says Michael J. Drews of Clemson University (161...

ADVANCED FILTRATION: Permeability/Surface Features Improved.
September 19, 1999... AlliedSignal Composites, Inc. (1300 Marrows Rd., Box 9559, Newark, DE 19714-9559; Tel: 302/456-6594, Fax: 302/456-6480) has made process and product modifications that improve both the permeability and the surface characteristics of its...

Mini Tri-Clamps Allow Sanitary Connections.
September 19, 1999... A/G Technology Corp. (101 Hampton Ave., Needham, MA 02494-2628; Tel: 800/248-2535 or 781/449-5774, Fax: 781/449-5786) product manager Myles Kepler says that mini (0.5-in.) tri-clamp endfittings are the key to three configurations of Xampler...

CALENDAR.
September 19, 1999... October 10-13, Ninth Symposium on Handling of Environmental and Biological Samples In Chromatography, Porto, Portugal. Contact: Marianne Frei Hausler, IAEAC, Postfach 46, CH-4123 Allshwil 2, Switzerland; Tel: +41 61 481 2789, Fax: +41 61 482...