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We are pleased indeed to have been partnering with LCGC for North America many years in briefing scientists worldwide about our numerous LC–MS product announcements and extensive LC–MS applications news.

Pickering Laboratories began in September 1980.

Designed for purification and engineered for science, Gilson, Inc. provides high quality, dependable purification solutions for your demanding liquid chromatography, solid phase extraction, liquid handling and gel permeation chromatography clean-up requirements.

Shimadzu congratulates LCGC on their 25th anniversary and we offer sincere wishes for many more years of service to the LC–GC community.

Daiso Co. was founded in 1915 for the electrolytic production of caustic soda from seawater.

Quadrex Corporation was founded in 1976 by Dr. S.R. Lipsky who recognized the need for commercially available reproducible GC capillary columns at a time when most columns were individually made by scientists in their own labs.

I firmly believe that the most significant development in mass spectrometry in this decade - or perhaps even the history of mass spectrometry - will turn out to be the ability to measure samples directly in open air under ambient conditions. In my experience of using mass spectrometry for the past thirty-plus years, the biggest limitation has always been the need to insert samples into a high-vacuum chamber, or to dissolve the samples and inject them or deposit them onto a prepared surface. The ability to analyze samples immediately by using open-air analysis without these restrictions has been very liberating, and it has made it possible to analyze a much wider variety of materials. I no longer hesitate to try an analysis because I am not sure about extraction, solubility, volatility, likelihood of contaminating the mass spectrometer, or whether the sample will go through a GC or LC column.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science. The company is the largest provider of analytical instruments, equipment, reagents and consumables, software and services for research, analysis discovery, and diagnostics.

As a family business, GERSTEL has always enjoyed freedom from short-or medium-term interests of investors, allowing us to pursue promising long-term strategies and projects.

Phenomenex, Inc. (Torrance, California) announced that it has acquired Chemtek Analytica S.R.L. (Bologna, Italy), a subsidiary of Labservice Analytica S.R.L., and privately held SupWare (Hilleroed, Denmark).

Alltech Associates Inc. has been an expert in HPLC column chemistry since 1971.

Congratulations to LCGC North America for 25 years of providing insightful resources to the scientific instrumentation community. As the leader in laboratory gas generation, Parker has relied upon LCGC as an important business partner in reaching our users. We see that partnership continuing.

Since its inception, LC Magazine and LCGC North America has supported MicroSolv Technology Corporation's evolution from an "idea" by the sales and marketing team of the former, ACE Scientific Supply Co., Inc., to the present international company which it is today.

Around the time Edward Aster identified the need for a publication dedicated to chromatography, HI Scientific Services Inc. was founded, but the evolution of the company began long before that time.

Metrohm has established itself in the competitive analytical instruments sector and has continually extended its position. We are the market leader in the fields of titration and voltammetry, in the ion chromatography sector we are a very strong number two. The company is owned by the Metrohm foundation, whose purpose is to keep the company independent, to provide employment to local people and to support causes of public interest in our area.

Smiths Detection is part of the global business Smiths Group, a leading developer and manufacturer of advanced technology solutions for civil and military markets worldwide.

Congratulations to LCGC North America on 25 illustrious years covering the fields of separation science and analytical instrumentation.

Congratulations LCGC on 25 Years of Great Publishing!

In 1982 when the first issue of LCGC entered the chromatography laboratories, BISCHOFF Chromatography was already 2 years old.

Congratulations on your 25th anniversary, to one of the most recognized journals in the field of analytical science.

LEAP Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1989 by three liquid handling automation veterans. Applying liquid handling to chromatography and mass spectroscopy for a variety of labs was the focus. LEAP started as a one-product company representing a fledgling Swiss company, CTC Analytics. GC applications in environmental labs were the main market. LEAP's expertise was integrating its GC autosampler and the headspace sampler into GC and GC–MS systems. Flexibility and portability were the key to selling these very reliable samplers. A second product line was launched that served tablet dissolution applications in pharmaceutical companies. LEAP applied that know-how and launched the Opt-Diss, a unique fiber optic UV system adaptable to all waterbath testers.

Although the majority of solid-phase extraction (SPE) is performed with conventional bonded silica- and polymeric-phases, difficult and complex samples may require more specialized stationary phases. In this instalment of "Sample Preparation Perspectives", columnist Ron Majors discusses advanced topics such as multimodal SPE, restricted-access media, molecular imprinted polymers, immunoaffinity extraction phases and other class-or compound-specific sorbents. These phases provide additional selectivity and procedures using them can be automated. Representative applications will be presented.

OI Analytical entered the analytical instrument business in 1969. The company's first instruments were designed to measure water quality. A Total Carbon System (TCS) which employed a wet oxidation technique was invented through the efforts of Dr. Alan D. Fredericks, a research scientist at Texas A&M University.

Polymer Laboratories (PL), now a part of Varian, Inc., was founded in 1976 from the Polymer Research Group at Loughborough University in the UK.

PHOTONIS USA (formerly BURLE Electro-Optics) and its predecessor companies (Galileo, RCA, and Phillips) has been a leader for over 30 years.

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Horizon Technology, Inc. was incorporated in July 1992 to develop, manufacture, market, and support an innovative line of automated laboratory products for sample preparation. The initial products automated a new series of solid phase extraction (SPE) methods that have recently been approved by the US EPA. These new SPE methods provide a faster, less expensive, and solvent-reducing alternative to existing sample preparation procedures.

Over seventy years ago, the Laboratory Equipment Corporation introduced the first rapid carbon determinator to the American iron and steel industry. Soon our carbon determinators, resistance furnaces, and sulfur determinators were seen in industrial laboratories across the country, along with the acronym trademark they carried. LECO became synonymous with accurate, dependable instrumentation for the determination of carbon, sulfur, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen in both ferrous and nonferrous industries.