Mission Accomplished
Posted on May 24th, 2018
The Road to Riva We have raised over £2,500 for Parkinson’s from supporters of our road trip to Italy and…
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The Road to Riva
Posted on May 10th, 2018
Today, Alan Lockley and I set out on the out-bound leg of our expedition to the 42nd Capillary Chromatography Symposium…
Most Innovative Company
Posted on April 30th, 2018
Last Thursday evening at the 2018 Business Excellence Forum, for the second year running, Anatune won the BEFA award for…
The Analytical Chemistry of the Smell of Parkinson’s
Posted on March 16th, 2018
Anatune’s involvement in the search for a test for Parkinson’s disease forms part of a BBC documentary that was first…
The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
Posted on March 13th, 2018
In 1928, Otto Frederick Rohwedder established the ultimate bench-mark – by inventing the bread slicing machine. The separation funnel is…
Community for Analytical Measurement Science
Posted on February 20th, 2018
For as many years as I can remember, there have been concerns expressed – in many quarters, about the threat…
The Golden Triangle and Why It Matters
Posted on February 16th, 2018
Automated sample preparation will have a strong, positive impact upon the use of LC-MS and GC-MS in the life sciences….
Manual Liquid-Liquid Extraction – Time for a Change
Posted on February 2nd, 2018
Introduction If you still carry out liquid-liquid extraction manually, and are fed-up with the associated costs, mistakes and hazards, then…
The Analytical Chemistry of the Smell of Parkinson’s
Posted on December 20th, 2017
Over the last few years, there has been lots of media coverage of a remarkable lady called Joy Milne, who…
A Great Opportunity to Own an Agilent 7200 GC/Q-TOF
Posted on November 30th, 2017
Agilent have launched a new GC/Q-TOF, (the Agilent 7250) and we look forward to the delivery of our instrument in…
Analytical Arena Conference and Training Workshop
Posted on November 10th, 2017
Anatune’s CEO, Ray Perkins, will be giving a talk at this event, entitled ‘Sample Preparation – Automation 101’. Automating your…
Congratulations to Affinity Water!
Posted on November 7th, 2017
On the 2nd of November, the Institute of Chemical Engineers held their 2017 Global Awards in Birmingham. Affinity Water came…
GC-MS Sample Preparation – Automation 101
Posted on October 31st, 2017
Two weeks ago, I gave a talk with this title at a meeting organised by the Chromatographic Society (Advances in…
So What is a SnApp Note?
Posted on August 24th, 2017
When they have successfully completed a piece of applications work in our lab, our chemists will, whenever possible, produce a…
Anatune is Just Around the Corner, Wherever You Are!
Posted on June 28th, 2017
Prague – on this occasion!! Anatune’s Mark Perkins (on screen) delivers a demonstration of SIFT-MS automation to SYFT Technologies…
Anatune Automated GC-MS – Now Available in LEGO!
Posted on June 22nd, 2017
Watch Jeff build his creation in double-quick time! How Can I get One? We have 50 kits to give…
Using the Latest Video Technology to Save You Time and Money
Posted on June 6th, 2017
For all businesses, travel comes with significant costs. There is no substitute for getting face-to-face with people, but there…
2017 – GERSTEL’s 50th Anniversary Year
Posted on May 26th, 2017
Anatune’s Ray Perkins congratulates GERSTEL on its 50th Year GERSTEL GmbH was founded by Eberhard Gerstel Senior in 1967 and…
We Always Thought it was a Brilliant Idea!!
Posted on December 14th, 2016
And it’s nice to be proved right!!! The Automated SIFT-MS began life as an informal development project with no specific…
High Resolution Accurate Mass GC-MS for Food Contact Studies
Posted on December 9th, 2016
It is important that packaging doesn’t contaminate the food it contains. Agilent have published an interesting video on YouTube that…
Why You Need to Look at Dispersive Liquid-Liquid Micro Extraction
Posted on November 1st, 2016
Automated DLLME using the GERSTEL MultiPurpose Sampler In analytical sample preparation, Liquid-Liquid Extraction (LLE) is as old as the…
Harmony in Gas Chromatography
Posted on May 12th, 2016
Great gas chromatographers create elegant methods, in the same way that great composers create elegant music. In GC and in…
SIFT-MS – On the Road
Posted on May 5th, 2016
There are many things you can do with a Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometer that would be impossible (or…
Once Upon a Time You Had a Great Idea…
Posted on April 5th, 2016
The GERSTEL MultiPurpose Sampler (MPS) automates your GC and LC sample prep. You designed the sample prep method You got…
Automated Analysis of Edible and Marine Oils using MIDI Sherlock
Posted on March 31st, 2016
The Field Edible oils are vegetable-based oils extracted from olives, corn, peanuts and other sources that are used in a…
2016 GC/Q-TOF Interest Group Meeting
Posted on March 22nd, 2016
The date for this years’ GC/Q-TOF Interest Group Meeting has been set for Wednesday 7th September, and will be hosted…
SIFT-MS – Try Before you Buy
Posted on March 11th, 2016
Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry is a powerful new technology that offers the potential for great improvements in the…
High Resolution Accurate Mass GC-MS – Try Before you Buy
Posted on March 1st, 2016
Having use of a high resolution, accurate mass GC-MS, such as the MultiFlex GC/Q-TOF offers a much greater ability to…
Anatune’s 20th Anniversary
Posted on February 1st, 2016
Today, Monday 1st of February is Anatune’s 20th Birthday. The team are all in the office and today we are…
The Significance of Automated Centrifugation
Posted on January 29th, 2016
In the automation of sample preparation methods, there are a few things that only a centrifuge can do properly: Separate…
Bristol 2016 – The Best Agilent Meeting Ever?
Posted on January 27th, 2016
I have attended many Agilent events over the years and they are always worth attending. The priority given to presentations…
Lunch and Learn – Automating Sample Extraction
Posted on December 15th, 2015
In the New Year, we will be offering free on-site seminars on the automation of sample extraction. These events will…
Flavour Analysis and Perception in Food & Beverages – Book Offer
Posted on December 3rd, 2015
Flavour Development Analysis and Perception in Food and Beverages, edited by J.K. Parker, J.S. Elmore and L. Methven. This is…
GC-MS Automation – The Pareto Principle
Posted on November 27th, 2015
“80% of people know about the Pareto Principle, only 20% ever apply it.” The Pareto Principle (or 80:20 rule) is…
The Number One Reason GC-MS Sensitivity Matters
Posted on October 30th, 2015
It determines the complexity, cost and efficiency of your sample preparation. When you design an analytical process for trace analysis,…
Weighing as Part of Automated Sample Preparation
Posted on October 20th, 2015
One of the best things about the GERSTEL MultiPurpose Sampler (MPS) is that it offers such a large range of…
SIFT-MS with Automated Sampling of Tedlar Bags
Posted on October 14th, 2015
We are looking for a partner or partners to help take this project forward. We have recently looked at the…
Why SIFT-MS Changes Everything…
Posted on October 8th, 2015
To understand why, it is best to listen to analysts that are already using this powerful new technology. Together with…
Automating Sample Filtration for UHPLC
Posted on September 24th, 2015
Ultra High Pressure Liquid Chromatography is a popular and powerful analytical technique, however, if your samples contain solid particles, these…
Metabolomics – Automated Sample Preparation for GC-MS
Posted on September 1st, 2015
Where GC-MS is used in metabolomics studies, sample preparation can be a major headache. Firstly there is the issue of…
Extracting L&E Compounds from Large Medical Implants
Posted on August 28th, 2015
Andrew Golby has drawn our attention to this Twister (Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction) application. It is very interesting for two…
In-Mouth Chemistry using SIFT-MS
Posted on August 25th, 2015
If analytical chemistry makes it into the Telegraph then it must be news. Unfortunately, you may need to be subscribed…
Checking Phine’s New Car by SIFT-MS
Posted on August 12th, 2015
Phine Banks, Anatune’s Account Manager for the West of England, has just taken delivery of a new VW Golf. That…
Twister – Extracting Analytes of all Polarities
Posted on August 12th, 2015
Nobuo Ochiai has written an article that illustrates great capabilities SBSE now offers for the extraction and concentration of target…
Opportunities to Learn about SIFT-MS
Posted on July 31st, 2015
Most analytical laboratories will have both GC-MS and LC-MS. Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry can analyse for analytes of low molecular…
A Useful Trick for Extracting Analytes of Different Polarities
Posted on July 31st, 2015
When designing an extraction process, if your target analytes exhibit a range of polarities, this can often lead you down…
If Formaldehyde is the Question, what is the Answer?
Posted on July 31st, 2015
As is the case with many other small, polar molecules, analysing for formaldehyde presents analysts with a real challenge. If…
MultiFlex GC/Q-TOF Meeting – A Big Success!
Posted on July 31st, 2015
On Thursday 11th June, Anatune organised the first GC/Q-TOF Interest Group Meeting at Wyboston Lakes, St Neots, near Bedford. The…
So what is a VAR?
Posted on June 9th, 2015
Anatune is an Agilent Technologies Value-Added Reseller. If you’re not sure exactly what this means, please read on… Value-Added Resellers…
The Bad, The Ugly and The Good
Posted on June 4th, 2015
Let’s talk about smells… Regulations concerning the emissions of actual and potential toxins from many classes of consumer products have…
Method Development – But Not as We Know It
Posted on May 27th, 2015
Last week was SIFT-MS workshop week and we had a full house of customers in the lab, most of whom…
At Last – a GC-MS Reference Method for Vitamin D Measurements
Posted on May 21st, 2015
Over the past few years, concerns have grown about vitamin D deficiency in the general population. Vitamin D is known…
Learn the Benefits of Accurate Mass Determination
Posted on May 13th, 2015
As High Resolution Mass Spectrometry rapidly becomes a mainstream analytical technique, is your knowledge keeping pace with the change? You…
Processing GC-MS Data using Multivariate Analysis
Posted on May 13th, 2015
The high resolution, accurate GC/Q-TOF will generate a vast amount of data about the samples you run. The challenge is…
Dr Mark Perkins Joins the Anatune Team
Posted on May 13th, 2015
Anatune is pleased to welcome Dr Mark Perkins, who will be working alongside a really great team in the Applications…
The Two Minute Rule…
Posted on April 15th, 2015
Anatune is serious about supporting our customers well. It makes great business sense and it is also the right thing…
Mass Spectrometry for Environmental and Food Analysis
Posted on March 26th, 2015
Agilent Technologies are pleased to invite you to a one-day seminar on the latest developments in Organic and Inorganic Mass…
Anatune is Top GERSTEL Distributor for the Second Year Running
Posted on March 23rd, 2015
At GERSTEL’s International Sales Meeting in Mulheim on Wednesday 18th March, I was very proud to accept on behalf of…
MVM is so Important to High Resolution GC-MS
Posted on March 19th, 2015
High Resolution Accurate Mass GC-MS is commonly used to identify significant, unknown compounds in all kinds of samples. This kind…
The Two Kinds of GC-MS Methods
Posted on March 17th, 2015
There are two sorts of GC-MS methods: 1. The ones that just work. 2. The tough, frustrating, stressful, expensive, unreliable,…
Why Selective Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS) Matters…
Posted on March 12th, 2015
Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS) is for analysts who want to make fast, real-time measurements of volatile (and…
The Best Way to Sample Volatile Organics for GC-MS?
Posted on March 11th, 2015
So what is the right way of doing this? There are many different ways of sampling volatile organic compounds in…
Using Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction (SBSE) to Investigate Odours Emitted by Materials
Posted on March 10th, 2015
For too long, SBSE has been restricted by the non-availability of more polar phases. Poly dimethyl silicone is very useful,…
New Extraction Technology for Flavours and Odours
Posted on February 23rd, 2015
The new EG Silicone Twister is important because it expands the range of jobs that Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction (SBSE)…
Phine Banks joins the Anatune team
Posted on February 12th, 2015
Anatune is pleased to welcome Phine Banks, who will be the Account Manager for the West of the UK. Phine…
Sample Prep Automation for Contract Laboratories
Posted on January 14th, 2015
On March 17th, 18th and 19th, we will be running a series of one-day workshops entitled: “On-line Sample Preparation for…
Anatune’s 2015 Environmental VOC Analyser
Posted on January 8th, 2015
Compared to older versions of our VOC Analyser, this new instrument gives improved MS performance, (including better sensitivity) and now…
Mass Spectrometry for the Novice
Posted on January 6th, 2015
As the use of GC-MS continues to grow, more analysts come into contact with mass spectrometry for the first time….
The Serious Benefits of Giving Instruments Silly Names
Posted on December 11th, 2014
Some laboratories give their instruments names. I know of labs that name instruments after colours, characters from TV shows…
On-Line Sample Preparation for GC-MS Workshops
Posted on December 4th, 2014
If you are a GC-MS user in a routine lab, you may well need to: · Run more samples · …
Microextraction Tech Blog
Posted on November 20th, 2014
Sample treatment is essential to develop competitive analytical methods in different application areas, from environmental sciences to bioanalysis. The low…
Latest Developments in Organic MS in Environmental and Food Analysis
Posted on November 18th, 2014
Agilent Technologies are pleased to invite you to a seminar focused on latest developments in Organic Mass Spectrometry in Environmental…
Cypermethrin in Water at Ultra Low Levels
Posted on October 31st, 2014
Are you thinking about CIP 2? Are you interested in measuring cypermethrin at ultra-low levels? We have been working on…
A Tale of Space and Time
Posted on October 21st, 2014
The Lord of Time looked down upon the blue globe that was planet Earth and turned to his Apprentice. “When…
Now is the Time to Replace your Old High Resolution GC-MS
Posted on October 17th, 2014
Now could be a great time to replace your old high resolution GC-MS with GC/Q-TOF. Here’s why… If you wander…
Better LODs with Hot Injection and Trapping
Posted on October 9th, 2014
Analysts that carry-out work on volatile (and some semi-volatile) compounds by GC-MS, know that different headspace sampling techniques give different…
Mr Paul Robbins joins the Anatune Team
Posted on October 7th, 2014
Anatune is pleased to welcome Mr Paul Robbins, Support Engineer, who will be working alongside a really great team in the…
Mr Sean O’Connor joins the Anatune Team
Posted on September 12th, 2014
Anatune is pleased to welcome Mr Sean O’Connor, who will be working alongside a really great team in the Applications…
The Measurement of VOCs in Flowing Water
Posted on September 9th, 2014
We have recently been asked to build a headspace GC system for the analysis of volatile organic compounds in an…
Single Drop Micro Extraction Now Available with the GERSTEL MPS
Posted on September 5th, 2014
A little over a year ago, Anatune entered into a co-operation with Glaxo SmithKline to work on the development of…
Low Level Steroids in Waste Water by GC Triple Quad
Posted on August 19th, 2014
Right now, there is considerable interest in the analysis of low level steroids (specifically; Estrone (E1), Estradiol (E2) and Ethynyl…