Pittcon news

Last week, two of our team visited the Pittsburgh Conference. Once again, new contacts were made, new products were discovered and existing relationships were strengthened.

Among other things, we attended a demo of the new electric crimper/decapper for vial caps, which offers high torque and can be read out via a PC. It is also very suitable for magnetic crimp caps.

A new product is the OmniSep packed column, packed with agarose or dextran and equivalent to the GE columns for FPLC. Depending on the diameter, the columns are suitable for pressures between 6.7 and 60 bar(g). These columns are manufactured for Diba, which Omnifit (with OmniSep) now falls under.

Biochem has expanded its product range with electric rotary valves, in 8-way, 10-way and 12-way selections. These valves contain no metal parts and are fully chemically resistant. The rotor is CTFE and the body is PTFE. The dead volume is extremely small. Porting is 1/4"-28 UNF.

We also discovered a new supplier of GC columns and accessories: GS-Tek (General Separation Technologies, Inc.).

IDEX Health & Science (Upchurch, Rheodyne & Ismatec) will release its new catalogue in the autumn!