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Shimadzu Nexera UC Recognized at Pittcon 2015
with Editors’ Gold Award

From left to right: Terry Adams, VP Marketing, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments; Bob Clifford, Marketing Manager, Food, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments; Stefan
Fritsch, editor Instrument News; Bob Stevenson, editor American Laboratory magazine. (Photo courtesy of Roy Engelbrecht, Engelbrecht Studios)

Shimadzu Corporation announced that its fully automated samples that are prone to oxidation or degradation if exposed to air
supercritical fluidic chromatography-based Nexera Unified and/or light. The fully automated Nexera UC system has a much
Chromatography system (Nexera UC) received the Pittcon Editors’ higher target analyte recovery rate and reduces the possibility of
Gold award at the 2015 Pittsburg Conference on Analytical Chemistry human error during analysis when compared to conventional manual
and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon) held in New Orleans, LA between workflows and off-line systems. In addition, Nexera UC enables the
March 8th and 12th. analysis of compounds over a diverse chemical space and significantly
reduces the quantity of organic solvents used.
The Pittcon Editors’ Awards recognize the most innovative products
presented at Pittcon for the first time based on votes by the media “Shimadzu is extremely proud to receive the Pittcon editors’ gold
corps. Editors awarded the Nexera UC for its ability to provide a award, an achievement that serves to recognize all of the engineers
workflow solution that addresses the bottleneck in real-world sample and scientists who developed the Nexera UC,” said Dr. Teruhisa Ueda,
analyses. General Manager, Analytical & Measuring Instruments Division. “As
the world’s first fully automated system that combines on-line SFE and
The Nexera UC is the world's first fully automated system that
SFC in a single flow path, the Nexera UC will eliminate the need for
combines on-line SFE and SFC in a single flow path. This unique
complicated sample preparation and thereby improve productivity in
system enables automatic extraction of up to 48 samples followed by
the lab. We are eager to collaborate with customers around the world
seamless transfer to SFC/MS for high-sensitivity detection of targets by
on this exciting new product.”
mass spectrometry.
The Nexera UC system eliminates the need for complicated sample For more information about the Nexera UC system, visit:
preparation and enables highly reliable and stable analysis of delicate http://www.shimadzu.com/an/hplc/nexera_uc/index.html

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