Advanced Chemistry Development and
Thermo Electron Corporation

Thermo Electron is a leader in HPLC column technology, including silica manufacturing, bonded phase development and production and state-of-the-art column manufacturing. They combine one of the broadest selections of bonded phase media with unique and novel HPLC and LC/MS column hardware designs.

Thermo Electron's UK and USA facilities, located in Runcorn, Cheshire (UK) and Bellefonte, PA (USA), are centers of excellence in the areas of research and development, media manufacture and column packing. Each facility combines these disciplines with exceptional levels of technical support, customer service and direct sales. Brands manufactured within Thermo Electron include HyPURITY™, a family based on an ultra pure silica and combining novel and traditional chemistries, Hypercarb™, the only porous graphic carbon suitable for demanding HPLC and LC/MS applications, BioBasic™, a family dedicated to the analysis of biological molecules and the globally renown Hypersil™ ODS and BDS families.

Innovations in column technology have resulted in unique hardware designs aimed at increasing sample throughput, DASH™ and eliminating dead-volume between column and detector, PIONEER™. High efficiency KAPPA™ capillary columns complement the range of phase chemistries mentioned and the newly introduced flexible KAPPA™ capillary is an integral part of 2D analyses using the Finnigan™ ProteomeX™ Workstation.

Thermo Electron columns and accessories are available from their direct sales offices across Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East and through approved distributors globally.

With their strong scientific base and an excellent reputation for providing the highest level of technical support, Thermo Electron is well known in the field of separation science. Thermo Electron kindly contributed their chromatographic applications knowledge to the structure-based ACD/Chromatographic Applications Database.