Thar Instruments Announces 2008 SFC Product Line

22/10/2007 - 16:55

Thar Instruments, Inc., the global leader in Supercritical Fluid
Chromatography (SFC) systems, announced its expanded product lineup
for 2008 resulting from the acquisition of Berger SFC products from
METTLER TOLEDO.

-- For analytical applications, the Berger SFC Analytix(R) and
Thar SFC Method Station continue to be available because both
instruments enjoy broad customer acceptance.

-- For analytical/semi-preparative applications, the Investigator
system remains the instrument of choice because of its greater
fraction collection flexibility. The Berger MiniGram becomes
obsolete.

-- For preparative applications, Thar continues to offer its
newest and smallest footprint preparative system, the SFC Prep
80, featuring a bench top configuration. Thar will no longer
manufacture the Berger MultiGram II.

-- Thar will offer the industry-standard, open-bed
style collection on the SFC-MS Prep 30 for mass-directed
purification utilizing the Waters 3100 mass spectrometer and
FractionLynx. The SFC-MS Prep 30 is upgradeable to the SFC-MS
Prep 100 (100 mL/min), which Thar plans to introduce in early
in 2008. The Berger PrepSFC automated UV-triggered system
becomes obsolete immediately.

-- Thar will offer the Berger MultiGram III for purifying 5-500
grams of material, and retire the Thar SFC Prep 200 in 2008.
Thar continues to offer the Thar SFC Prep 350 - the flagship
instrument for purifying tens to thousands of grams of
material per run.

-- Thar will offer the PetroAnalyzer analytical SFC system to
refineries and discontinue Berger SFC's former collaboration
with AC Controls.

Software

-- The new SFC systems lineup includes software for instrument
control and data management. Thar software engineers have been
developing SFC software for more than 10 years, and will
broaden the software capabilities of the new product line with
several releases planned for 2008, including: Chromeleon from
Dionex, ChemStation from Agilent, Empower from Waters and a
new universal software for all Thar systems - ChromScope.

Service and Support

-- The acquisition enables expanded capabilities for technical
support and service globally. Thar's Service division will
coordinate and support all products currently sold by Thar
Instruments and Berger SFC through 2012.

For complete information on the new product lineup, go to
www.TharSFC.com .