Analytical Technology launched its UK and Europe business in 1998 and the company has enjoyed growing success, now providing compliant instrumentation to most UK water providers and leading the way in developing reliable and cost-effective monitoring systems. Developing and producing the highest quality instruments available, Analytical Technology recently added the Profibus DP standard to its monitoring systems, enabling water and wastewater treatment plants to optimise maintenance and achieve a high level of confidence in chlorine measurement. The triple validated chlorine monitoring systems selected by Thames Water will enable them to improve process control and make great savings over the whole life of the asset. 

Garry Tabor, Sales Manager Europe at Analytical Technology, comments: "Our goal was clear; Analytical Technology set out to be the UK's number one supplier of chlorine monitoring systems and this new framework agreement is a great reward for our dedicated team. We have been working with all the UK's major water companies for some time and have been able to pass on operational costs which amount to hundreds of thousands of pounds. This is backed up by our dedication to providing top quality service to our customers, which includes personalised training programmes and maintenance services. This award confirms our claims that Analytical Technology's chlorine monitors are the best on the market, with no rivals either technically or commercially." 
 
In addition to Thames Water, Analytical Technology has the frameworks to supply chlorine monitors to Scottish Water, United Utilities, South West Water and Yorkshire Water.

For further information, e-mail: sales@atiuk.com or view website: www.analyticaltechnology.com  Refer to page 237

Thermo Scientific make significant and innovative advances in
new laboratory information management system (LIMS) solutions

The significant and innovative advances in the new laboratory information management system (LIMS) solutions, from Thermo Scientific, facilitate compliance with industry guidelines such as ISO 17025, and other procedural requirements such as GMP while delivering time and cost-savings to scientists and lab managers  supporting  process industries. In addition, the company offer a new feature rich field solution that has been specifically developed for laboratory professionals working in water and environmental testing laboratories.

The company also offer its full range of informatics solutions, including laboratory information management systems (LIMS), chromatography data systems (CDS), electronic laboratory notebooks (ELN), document management systems (DMS) and Spectroscopy software.

A significant new release of the company's flagship laboratory data management solution that is designed for large-scale process and industrial laboratories is available. Developed to facilitate compliance with ISO and GLP, the new solution combines more than 25 years of knowledge, experience, customer input.

The company's new LIMS solution for water and environmental applications is designed to help labs keep pace with the rapidly changing regulatory environment, including the Safe Drinking Water Act and the EPA's Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment. All of Thermo Fisher's informatics solutions are designed to ease the burdens of regulatory compliance, and the company provides solutions across a broad range of global industries.

"With these new releases and our powerful portfolio of purpose-built products that span all industries, will demonstrate how we work with and enable our customers to automate and integrate their laboratory operations," said Dave Champagne, vice president and general manager for the Informatics business at Thermo Fisher Scientific. "From managing samples and resources to cost-effectively capturing and analyzing quality data, providing essential reports and ensuring regulatory compliance, no other company offers the breadth of solutions and depth of industry experience across the full spectrum of laboratory software applications, from small single-purpose laboratories to complex integrations across global enterprises."

In addition to its informatics offerings, Thermo Fisher Scientific offer a wide range of industry-leading instrumentation and services designed to facilitate the efficiency of complex workflows and processes.

For further information about Thermo Scientific informatics solutions and its wide range of industry-leading instrumentation and services, e-mail: marketing.informatics@thermofisher.com or view website: www.thermo.com/informatics  Refer to next page

Agilent Technologies supports Harvard Medical School
professor's work developing NMR methods to analyse large proteins

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and the Agilent Technologies Foundation recently announced that professor Gerhard Wagner at Harvard Medical School has received an Agilent Thought Leader Award in support of his work using high-magnetic-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to analyse large proteins.

The award will total nearly $373,000 over three years to help the lab develop fast and efficient assignment methods for large proteins by NMR and make these methods accessible to the structural biology community.

"NMR spectroscopy has still a tremendous potential to grow and provide unique information about important biological systems, such as large multidomain proteins, protein complexes and membrane proteins," Professor Wagner said. "I expect that innovations in NMR will come from new experimental schemes, supported by new expression and labeling schemes. The award from the Agilent Foundation will be used to push such developments and make them widely available to the scientific community. This will provide tools for generating new insights into structures of large macromolecular complexes, understanding of biological mechanisms and design of new drugs to fight human disease."

"We're pleased to support Professor Wagner's work of making the benefits of high-magnetic-field NMR spectroscopy available to biologists investigating the vital roles that very large proteins play in the processes of life," said Regina Schuck, Agilent vice president and general manager, Research Products Division. "Most government agencies fund research into the causes of diseases. In this case, we're funding development of better tools for doing the research."

The methods developed under this project will be shared with the biology community through scientific publication and on the Wagner team's website at http://gwagner.med.harvard.edu/home.

Agilent's Thought Leader program promotes fundamental advances in the life sciences by contributing financial support and sometimes scientific instrumentation and/or expertise to the research of influential thought leaders.

For further information, view website: www.agilent.com  Refer to page 221

Agilent Technologies' turbomolecular vacuum pump portfolio

A new line of turbomolecular high vacuum pumps from Agilent Technologies are well-suited for ultra-high vacuum (UHV) applications requiring the highest level of compression ratios for light gases.

Using patented TwisTorr molecular drag technology, Agilent has developed the Turbo-V 750 TwisTorr, the Turbo-V 850 TwisTorr and the Turbo-V 2300 TwisTorr. The new turbomolecular pumps greatly increase pumping efficiency in a very compact space and provide significant improvements in performance. Turbomolecular high vacuum pumps are used for various applications including analytical instrumentation; thin film deposition; space simulation; fusion technology; particle accelerators and synchrotrons; and other industrial applications.

"The TwisTorr technology represents a significant step in the evolution of hybrid turbo high vacuum pumps," said Giampaolo Levi, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Vacuum Products Division. "Agilent is committed to providing innovative vacuum solutions offering unmatched performance and best-in-class compression ratio in the most compact space available."

The innovative TwisTorr technology delivers high pumping speed with a very compact rotor design, reducing power consumption and system footprint. High foreline pressure tolerance permits the use of a smaller, low-cost backing pump, further reducing system size. The TwisTorr pumps also feature a unique bearing and dry lubrication suspension system that is maintenance-free, eliminates oil and risk of contamination, and permits installation in any orientation.

Additionally, the Turbo-V 2300 TwisTorr pump has a dedicated rack controller unit, making it ideally suited for accelerator and synchrotron light-sources and other radioactive applications.

The Turbo-V 750 TwisTorr and Turbo-V 850 TwisTorr offer a pumping system with a fully integrated 48Vdc controller or as a standalone pump with a universal voltage rack controller unit. The high-performance level of the Turbo-V 750 TwisTorr and the Turbo-V 850 TwisTorr allows a wide range of applications. OEM customers in need of system integrations have access to fully integrated electronics in several applications, such as analytical instrumentation, thin-film deposition and surface analysis. Research institutes and universities that require manual pump operation can use the full-rack controller solution.

For further information, e-mail: chem@agilent.com   Refer to page 221