Comprehensive Services and Products on Show

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc introduced innovations across its three premier brands: Thermo Scientific®, Fisher Scientific® and Unity™ Lab Services where new offerings for chromatography, mass spectrometry, and trace elemental and molecular spectroscopy product lines were all displayed. Some featured offerings were Fisher Scientific’s RESULTS™ program, which has been structured for easy purchasing of the products and supplies needed for an entire application; also the company’s newest brand Unity Lab Services which combines product and operations support to create a single solution. For the first time at Pittcon, the combined Thermo Scientific and Dionex™ new instruments, consumables, columns and software were also showcased, including the Thermo Scientific Dionex ICS-4000 said to be the world’s first commercially available integrated capillary high-pressure ion chromatography (HPIC™) system , targets analyses in industries such as environmental, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and biopharma.

The ICS-5000 is a modular system that offers high-pressure capabilities to bring near-UHPLC performance to IC. Making its Pittcon debut was the Thermo Scientific Q Exactive™ high-performance benchtop Orbitrap™ LC-MS/MS high-performance quadrupole MS particularly useful for protein identification, metabolism, forensic toxicology or food safety analyses with laboratories ‘Quanfirmation™’ making it possible to identify, quantify and confirm in one experiment, said the company. The Thermo Scientific NanoDrop® Lite instrument, a compact, personal microvolume UV-Vis spectrophotometer that complements full-featured NanoDrop instruments was also introduced, and places advanced analysis in the hands of every researcher.