Collaboration to Develop an Advanced Range of Raman Microscopes

Materials characterisation company Malvern Instruments (UK) and Kaiser Optical Systems (USA), a leading supplier of Raman analysers and components for spectroscopy, have announced a development collaboration that will enhance the product portfolios of both companies. As part of the process of bringing the resulting new products to market, both companies will be seeking the involvement of potential customers at the final stages of product development and for beta evaluations.

Malvern Instruments, a world-class supplier of systems for characterising particulate materials, will integrate Kaiser’s RamanRxn System™ analysers and probes into its Morphologi® platform. The Morphologi’s high-performance automated image analysis will then intelligently target and guide the collection of Raman data on a range of particulate and solid materials. Used in conjunction with ISys®, Malvern’s powerful chemical imaging software, this approach has many and varied applications. These patent pending combinations will, for the first time, enable this intelligent, targeted and statistically robust approach to performing Raman microscopy on a variety of spatially and chemically complex samples. Paul Walker, Managing Director of Malvern Instruments said: “We are very excited by the prospects for this collaboration which builds on the strengths of both organisations. It will significantly enhance Malvern’s capabilities to solve the material characterisation problems of its customers in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.”