Biotage Moving Into Mass Directed Flash

Biotage, a leading global supplier of solutions and technology for analytical, medicinal and peptide chemistry, announces that Biotage is in late stage development with its partner Microsaic Systems plc of a fully integrated solution for Mass Directed Flash with Biotage's flagship flash purification system Isolera™. The new system will include Microsaic’s novel miniature mass spectrometer – the Microsaic MiD.

A presentation on this new system will be held at the JASIS meeting in Makuhari, Japan on 5th September, 2012. The new solution will become commercially available in early 2013.

"This is a game changer in flash purification that will allow chemists to significantly improve their work flow. We have high expectations on the forthcoming launch of this product that will further strengthen our purification business," says Toshiyuki Yachi, Vice President of Marketing.

Eric Yeatman, Chief Executive of Microsaic Systems, commented “One of Microsaic’s key strategic aims is to grow sales of our innovative products as an OEM partner with leading international suppliers of scientific instruments in specified application areas of chemical separation and purification. Our objective is to benefit from access to an existing customer base and also to make mass spectrometry available to a wide range of new customers and to open new opportunities. We are very pleased at the progress being made with Biotage, which matches unique benefits of our miniaturised instruments with their product development and international commercial capabilities.”