Author: adminkoretest

We at Kore Technology are delighted to announce the strengthening of our relationship with Photonis Scientific Inc. Moving forward, we will be the sole distributors for non OEM customers in the UK looking to purchase products for Charged Particle Detection. For any customer looking to purchase these products in the UK, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

The relationship between Photonis Scientific Inc. and Kore extends back into the 1980s. We have been working with Photonis Scientific Inc. since its inception as a company, with Burle Industries before they transformed into Photonis Scientific Inc., and with Galileo before they were even acquired by Burle.

We have had a long and successful working relationship already, and we are excited for this new venture together.

Kore Technology are excited to present our latest development: a fully transportable PTR-TOF-MS, the PTR 3c. The Compact PTR 3c is a new soft chemical ionisation tool for sensitive analysis of VOCs in ambient air. Using soft chemical ionisation, the time of flight mass spectrometer can monitor all masses in parallel, allowing the maximum amount of information to be collected. The Kore PTR 3c has been developed to be transportable and can be taken on-site (mains power required), with full computer control of instrument parameters.

Some of the PTR 3c’s impressive specifications are:

• Concentration range: 50ppm to ppt levels
• Sensitivity: >200c/s/ppb VOCs (measured with Benzene)
• Detection limit: ~30ppt
• Response time to concentration changes: ~100ms
• Mass resolution of ~4,000M/δM achievable
• Mass range: unlimited

Visit our product page to learn more, and check out this application note to see how we took full advantage of the PTR 3c’s transportability.

In September 2019, Kore were delighted to welcome a delegation from the China Association of Environmental Protection Industry to visit our company. The delegation was made up of 22 people representing a series of environmental associations within China.

One of our colleagues from Beijing SDL Technology Co Ltd, who had been staying at Kore for a week, gave a short introduction of Kore, highlighted how our products have been used in environmental monitoring and explained our exciting future in this area.

Our Projects Manager Dr Fraser Reich then took the delegation to our laboratory to demonstrate some of equipment working live, in a way they may not get a chance to experience often. Finally, we all enjoyed lunch together at the Doubletree by Hilton in the nearby Cambridge city centre.

Especially given our ongoing work with SDL, we were very pleased at the opportunity to continue strengthening the good relationship between Kore and China.

The Chinese company, Beijing SDL Technology Co Ltd., is a leading supplier of environmental monitoring and analysis products in China, and has recently sought to add mass spectrometry products and expertise to its already impressive portfolio. Consequently, we are pleased to announce that SDL has now acquired a majority shareholding in Kore.

SDL will sell and support Kore’s mass spectrometer products in China alongside their extensive range of environmental and process analysers, with Kore continuing to manufacture, sell and support our products in the rest of the world.

As part of this new cooperation, Kore will establish an R&D centre for mass spectrometry at our premises in the UK to support SDL’s future needs. Kore has never been a ‘one-technique’ company, and over the years has designed and manufactured instruments based on multiple techniques. Therefore, the R&D centre will be continue in the development of all aspects of mass spectrometry instrumentation, from software through to ion sources, mass analysers and detector systems. In addition, SDL will establish an applications centre for Kore mass spectrometry products at its premises in China to provide its renowned technical support to Chinese mass spectrometer customers.

We have already been commissioned by SDL to design some new and exciting mass spectrometer products, and we will be announcing these soon.

We received an order in late 2012 from the University of Paris-East, France for PTR-TOF-MS instrumentation that could be used in the laboratory as well as flown on research aircraft for airborne studies. This instrumentation will be used in their research on the chemistry of atmospheric secondary organic aerosol (SOA). SOA is formed in the atmosphere when volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted from plants, animals and human activities are oxidised in the air to form less volatile products that subsequently partition into aerosol particles. Once in particles, these organic compounds can undergo further chemical reactions to form a large fraction of atmospheric aerosol mass that can have significant effects on atmospheric chemistry, visibility, human health, and climate.

The French laboratory has constructed an atmospheric chamber, so that it can simulate various gas and particulate environments. Our PTR-TOF-MS instrumentation will be connected to their simulation chamber and be used for the continuous measurement of gas evolution of a wide variety of organic species at the ppt level. In addition we have reduced the weight of the instrument and made its dimensions compatible with the French researchers aircraft to allow SOA airborne studies to be conducted.