Market Profiles

PEAK Scientific, a provider of laboratory gas generation solutions, has opened a new facility in South Korea.

Flash chromatography is a purification technique that is designed for rapid separation by using air pressure as opposed to slow and inefficient gravityfed chromatography. It differs from the conventional column technique by using slightly smaller silica gel particles and pressurized gas at 50–200 psi.

LIMS are software platforms that provide data management, and were introduced as a solution to sample tracking. However, LIMS quickly evolved into a tool that manages multiple facets of laboratory informatics.

Gas chromatography (GC) sampling of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is typically done by headspace, purge and trap, or thermal desorption instruments. Headspace sampling is the simplest of the techniques, where a vapor sample is taken from the space above the liquid sample in a GC vial.

For high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), ultrahigh-pressure LC (UHPLC), and LC–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) technologies, China has continued to provide solid growth opportunities, as a result of the country’s investments in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as agriculture and food testing.

Process chromatographs, in particular process gas chromatographs (GCs), is a well-established technique within the oil and gas, refining, and petrochemical industry.

Over the past 20 years, the use of LC– MS instruments has become increasingly important to many researchers. The performance of LC–MS instruments has continued to advance, reaching higher levels of sensitivity and increased resolution.

Cannabis products are frequently tested for potency, pesticides and fungicides, solvent residues, heavy metals, microbes, foreign organic matter, and moisture. The most common techniques used for these tests are high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), gas chromatography (GC), LC or GC with mass spectrometry detection, and inductively coupled plasma–MS.

The global economy is currently going through something it has not experienced in nearly a decade. The major geographic segments are performing well with overall production increasing. This is typically a strong indicator that the demand for chromatography products in the chemical and petrochemicals industry will also perform well.

Ion chromatography (IC) is a form of liquid chromatography that is able to measure the concentrations (in parts per billion) of anions such as chloride, fluoride, nitrate, and sulfate, and cations such as ammonium, calcium, magnesium, and sodium.

Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) is a widely used technique for food safety and quality assurance applications.

China has experienced explosive growth over the past decade, and it has been a boon to the analytical instrumentation industry.

Market Profile: Flow Cytometers

Flow cytometry is an analytical technique used to examine the physical and chemical properties of cells and microparticles, including beads.

Market Trends & Analysis Market Profile: Laboratory Information Management Systems

With accountability and regulatory compliance being such a large part of the modern laboratory, the necessity for a laboratory information management system (LIMS) cannot be understated.

Automating the DNA sequence process is made possible by the use of fluorescent tags. With fluorescent dyes, the entire experiment can be performed in a single solution instead of four different ones.

Market Profile: Continuous Flow Analysis and Discrete Analysers

Ion chromatography (IC) is a similar technique to HPLC except that the detector of choice is usually a conductivity detector. IC is well suited for the analysis of a variety of inorganic and organic anions and cations.

Market Profile: GC–MS

In continuous flow analysis (CFA), a sample is injected into a flowing carrier solution passing rapidly through small-bore tubing.

In continuous flow analysis (CFA), a sample is injected into a flowing carrier solution passing rapidly through small-bore tubing. The sample is mixed with a reagent, which reacts with the sample to develop a color and determine the sample concentration.

Market Profile: Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC)

Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) combines a gas chromatographic front-end separation with a mass spectrometer.

GC-MS is the most widespread tandem technique in the analytical instrumentation industry and is employed in many different industries, particularly for environmental, chemical, and toxicological applications.