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Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A), Palo Alto, Calif., has unveiled the Agilent 1200 Series HPLC (high-performance liquid chromatography) system, replacing its market-leading 1100 Series HPLC. Used by more than 250,000 customers worldwide, in applications from forensics to food safety, pharmaceuticals and protein research, HPLC is a measurement technology used to separate, identify, quantify and purify compounds. It represents a $2 billion market and is one of the largest sources of revenue for Agilent's life science and chemical analysis business.
Since introducing the 1100 Series instrument in 1995, Agilent has sold more than 60,000 systems and 400,000 modules, making it the most popular HPLC in the world. To ease the transition to the 1200 Series, Agilent has made the system reverse-compatible with the 1100. Customers can combine new and existing modules, and can continue using existing methods without costly new method development, revalidation or retraining of employees. Agilent even provides an 1100 Emulation Mode [jl1]for customers using non- Agilent software until third-party software upgrades are available.
The Agilent 1200 is the most comprehensive HPLC available. With more than 60 instrument modules, it can be configured for all major HPLC applications, including a...