Oxford Instruments, the supplier of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) solutions for QA laboratories in the food, agricultural, healthcare, polymer and energy sectors, has launched in Europe the AffirmoEX Electron Magnetic Resonance (EMR) system.

“With applications in the foods sector, it is the natural complement to Oxford Instruments’ well-established MQC nuclear magnetic resonance systems. It will also provide the perfect solution to the academic market place where the EMR technique has become under-used due to the obsolescence of existing instrumentation, and the (until now) prohibitively high cost of buying a new instrument,” Oxford Instruments said in a statement.

AffirmoEX was launched at the Analytica event in Munich, April 17-20. Having successfully introduced this addition to its range of benchtop instrumentation at Pittcon 2012 in Orlando in March, Oxford Instruments’ product marketing manager, John Paul Cerroti, commented: “The biannual Analytica meeting is Europe’s premier instrumentation show and is the natural venue to attract many key decision-makers.” Continuing, he said it was clear that “benchtop EMR has an important role to play in giving customers better insight into their products and processes.”

The reaction of academics indicated that the capabilities of the AffirmoEX and its positioning for the teaching environment were spot on. There was plenty of excitement at the possibilities of re-introducing electron magnetic resonance to the undergraduate chemistry curriculum, the company said.

Analytica 2012 focused on innovative and applied product and system solutions for the entire laboratory whether in science, research or industry.

COMPANY’S COMMITMENT

The GeoSpec2 core analysis system

Oxford Instruments Magnetic Resonance is committed to the development and manufacture of analytical instruments designed to meet the particular needs of industrial process quality control and research, based on NMR and EMR technologies. “With leading products and a global sales and service network, Oxford Instruments Magnetic Resonance continues to explore innovative ways to use benchtop NMR and EMR for faster and easier measurements,” the company said.

It supplies, designs and supports high-technology tools and systems with a focus on research and industrial applications while providing solutions needed to advance fundamental physics research and its transfer into commercial nanotechnology applications. “Innovation has been the driving force behind Oxford Instruments’ growth and success for over 50 years, and its strategy is to effect the successful commercialisation of these ideas by bringing them to market in a timely and customer-focused fashion,” Oxford Instruments stated.

One of its products is the GeoSpec range of NMR core analysers designed specifically for studies of core samples from oilfield reservoirs. GeoSpec is the industry standard with installations in almost every major oil producer and SCAL laboratory world-wide. Oxford Instruments’ partnership with Green Imaging Technologies guarantees complete hardware and software integration which makes it possible for any core analysis laboratory to obtain comprehensive NMR core analysis results without the need for an in-house NMR expert.

The first technology business to be spun out from Oxford University over 50 years ago, Oxford Instruments is now a global company with over 1900 staff worldwide and is listed on the FTSE250 index of the London Stock Exchange. Its objective is to be the leading provider of new-generation tools and systems for the research and
industrial sectors.

This involves the combination of core technologies in areas such as low temperature, high magnetic field and ultra-high vacuum environments, nuclear magnetic resonance, X-ray, electron and optical-based metrology, and advanced growth, deposition and etching.