Materials characterization company Malvern
Instruments (Malvern, Worcs, UK) and Kaiser Optical Systems (Ann Arbor,
MI, USA), a leading supplier of Raman analyzers and components for spectroscopy,
announce a development collaboration that will enhance the product portfolios
of both companies. As part of the process of bringing the resulting new products
to market, both companies will be seeking the involvement of potential customers
at the final stages of product development and for beta evaluations later this
year.
Malvern Instruments, a world-class supplier of systems for characterizing particulate
materials, will integrate Kaiser RamanRxn System™ analyzers and probes
into its Morphologi® platform. The Morphologi’s high-performance automated
image analysis will then intelligently target and guide the collection of Raman
data on a range of particulate and solid materials. Used in conjunction with
ISys®, Malvern’s powerful chemical imaging software, this approach
has many and varied applications. The initial focus will be on pharmaceutical,
life science and forensic applications. Here sophisticated sample and particle
handling, automated image recognition, and chemical characterization combine
to move Raman spectroscopy to a new level of intelligence and automation.
These patent pending combinations will, for the first time, enable this intelligent,
targeted and statistically robust approach to performing Raman microscopy on
a variety of spatially and chemically complex samples.
Paul Walker, Managing Director of Malvern Instruments said: “We are very
excited by the prospects for this collaboration which builds on the strengths
of both organizations. It will significantly enhance Malvern’s capabilities
to solve the material characterization problems of its customers in the chemical
and pharmaceutical industries.”
Kaiser Optical Systems is a world leader in the manufacture and supply of holographic
optics and Raman spectroscopy platforms for a variety of laboratory and industrial
process applications. As a direct result of this collaboration, the company
will distribute an exclusive version of Malvern’s ISys data processing
and analysis software, and a new system control software platform specifically
developed for its Raman Microprobe and PhAT-enabled Raman WorkStation™
range.
Harry Owen, Director of Business Development at Kaiser said: “The addition
of Malvern’s software to our Raman WorkStation™ offers our customers
significantly improved performance. Raman spectroscopy applications such as
chemical mapping, wellplate analysis, and tablet analysis will benefit from
the combination of our PhAT technology and the powerful imaging capability offered
by Malvern’s ISys data processing and analysis software.”
Posted October 27th, 2009
