Revolutionary Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry Instruments for Malaysia announced at LabAsia 2011

Today at LabAsia 2011, Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) launched three exciting new products: the Agilent Cary 630 Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer – the world’s smallest and lightest FTIR spectrometer, the Agilent 4100 Microwave Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometer, a breakthrough elemental analysis instrument that runs entirely on air and the Agilent 7200 Q-TOF (quadrupole time-of-flight) gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) system that is based on the world’s best-selling gas chromatography instrument.

These new bio-analytical measurement instruments will help scientists and chemists conducting research and analysis in various industries, including chemical, pharmaceutical and the academia on applications ranging from food fraud, food safety, environmental and energy testing.

“Improving the food and environment plays a big part in enhancing quality of life in Malaysia and around the world. More and more, our customers and research partners here are demanding for more sophisticated and highly innovative instruments that can meet their needs today and tomorrow. We are pleased to showcase our newest instruments to help Malaysia push the frontiers of science,” said Soh Lam Seng, Country Manager, Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis, Agilent Malaysia.

At Lab Asia held between 27 to 29 September 2011, Agilent will host technical experts in the region speaking on environmental research and food safety testing using Agilent’s Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy instrumentations, as well as showcase the new instruments.

The Agilent Cary 630 FTIR:

• has an intuitive software that guides users through every step of operation, helping them accurately analyze samples in just seconds.
• suited for QA/QC in chemical and pharmaceutical industries or for academic research and teaching labs.
• it can be used in a wide range of applications, from assessing the quality and composition of food products, to testing chemical changes in the coating of airplane parts.

The Agilent 4100 MP-AES:

• fundamentally changes the way scientists conduct elemental analysis.
• uses a nitrogen-based plasma that runs on air.
• as it does not require flammable or expensive gases, this instrument is ideal and safe for any elemental analysis laboratory, particularly at remote sites, mobile laboratories, and unattended multi-element overnight operations.
• uses tried-and-true microwave technology, offering improved linear dynamic range, superior detection limits, and faster measurement compared with flame atomic-absorption spectroscopy.
• easy to use application-specific software applets automatically load a preset method, enabling users to start analysis with minimal training, and without the need for method development or alignment.

The Agilent 7200 Q-TOF for GC/MS:

• is well-suited for analyzing target compounds and unknowns in challenging applications such as metabolomics, food safety, natural products research, environmental analysis, sports-doping detection, and energy research.
• based on the latest generation of the world’s biggest-selling GC, the new Agilent 7890A, this instrument features time-tested designs for high-confidence results. Users can coax more qualitative and quantitative information out of increasingly complex samples.
• its new MassHunter deconvolution software facilitates analyzes a wide range of compounds in TOF mode.

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world’s premier measurement company and a technology leader in chemical analysis, life sciences, electronics, and communications. The company’s 18,500 employees serve customers in more than 100 countries. Agilent had net revenues of $5.4 billion in fiscal 2010. Agilent currently have over 3,500 employees in Bayan Lepas in their 45 acres campus (word coined by Mr Soh). One of the key industries that use Agilent Technologies’ bio-analytical measurement instruments is the food industry. High food safety standards help ensure that not only can the public enjoy all foods with confidence, food products produced in Malaysia will also deliver a higher level of quality and safety assurance to consumers locally and overseas. Food manufacturers and also importers or exporters in Malaysia can avoid financial risks resulting from allegations of food fraud or safety breaches, such as the recent allegations of contamination in Malaysian-produced birds’ nests, if their products are constantly tested with the latest instruments to ensure safety. With the new products introduced at Lab Asia 2011, Agilent Technologies is looking at changing the landscape of the analytical testing techniques, and ultimately, the quality of life in Malaysia. At Agilent, we have always looked at playing a part in enhancing quality of life in Malaysia and around the world. With the recent birds’ nests scare, it has shown the importance in ensuring that proper equipment is used to evaluate food safety. We are hoping that with the new innovative and sophisticated instruments that we are launching at Lab Asia 2011, it will help scientists and chemists who are conducting research and analysis in various industries Agilent Technologies’ instruments are for scientists and chemists conducting research and analysis in various industries, including chemical, pharmaceutical, and the academia on applications ranging from food fraud, food safety, environmental and energy testing. It is currently being used by most of the government ministries in Malaysia including the Ministry of Agricultural and the Ministry of Health. The demonstration done at Lab Asia 2011 with birds’ nests as the test specimen using the the Agilent Cary 630 Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer which is the world’s smallest and lightest FTIR spectrometer have shown that a test done using such advanced bio-analytical measurement instrument is able to provide accurate sample analysis in just seconds. This latest offering is currently the most advanced in the industry and is suitable for Quality Assurance and Quality Control in chemical, pharmaceutical industries or even for use during academic research or in teaching labs. Overall, the global measurement marketplace is estimated to be worth US$40 billion and is growing between 5 – 7%. Of this global measurement marketplace, the global Chemical Analysis market is worth US$9 billion growing at 5-6%.