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PFAS SamplePrep seminar Tuesday 18 November 2025

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PFAS: a problem and an opportunity for the laboratory

There is no getting around it: PFAS is recognised worldwide as a major environmental problem.

However, this also presents an opportunity for laboratories — an opportunity to contribute to mapping PFAS in soil, water and food and thus play a valuable role in protecting the environment and public health.

Determining PFAS is challenging: extremely low concentrations, high risk of contamination and a need for reliable, reproducible results.

A good analysis starts with good sample preparation — without that foundation, even the best analysis method loses its value.

Why attend this seminar

Do you spend too much time on PFAS (soil) extraction and repeat the same manual steps every day?

Then this seminar is for you.

Discover a fully automated PFAS extraction workflow with the ePrep® ONE and Advion-Interchim SPE-LV6.

During this seminar, we will show you how to:

  • minimise manual operations
  • significantly increase the throughput of your analyses
  • and still achieve low quantification limits (e.g. 0.02 µg/kg for soil).

And in the afternoon, you can experience the technologies for yourself during practical hands-on demonstrations of the ePrep® ONE, SPE systems and additional sample prep tools.

This will allow you to see in practice how automation works — from extraction to clean-up — and what this can mean for your own workflow.

In short: in just one day, you will discover how you can make your PFAS sample preparation faster, cleaner and more reliable with modern, integrated solutions.

Our contribution

Instrument Solutions is organising this day together with experts from Advion Interchim, ePrep Europe and Salm en Kipp.

We are pooling our knowledge to demonstrate how SPE and µSPE can be efficiently combined into a complete and automated workflow – from extraction to analysis.

In addition, cryogenic grinding and microwave sample preparation will be briefly explained as complementary techniques for optimally preparing samples for PFAS determination.

Program
TimeSubject
09:30 – 09:50a.m.Welcome
09:50 – 10:00a.m.opening by Jan Volkers, Product Manager Instrument Solutions
10:00 – 10:30a.m.‘SPE clean-up for water, from µL up to 1L’, by Alice Ryckebush, Product Manager Advion Interchim
10:30 – 11:00a.m.‘Automation of clean-up water, soil and fruit samples as SamplePrep for µSPE’, by Dr Cassandra Rusher, Senior European Technical Support Specialist ePrep Europe
11:00 – 11:15a.m.break
11:15 – 11:35a.m.‘Application example: SPE clean-up for water’ by Jan Volkers, Product Manager Instrument Solutions
11:35 – 11:50a.m.‘Sample extraction for clean-up, using MicroWave technology’ by Maarten Schouffoer, Product Specialist, SALM EN KIPP
11:50 – 12:05a.m.‘Cryogenic grinding of samples using Freezer/Mill® and/or Cryo-Blade™’, by Jeroen van Boxtel, Product Specialist, Instrument Solutions
12:05 – 12:45p.m.lunch
12:45 – 15:00a.m.Hands on demonstrations: ePrep, SPE, MicroWave and Freezer Mill/CryoBlade

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Visit Instrument Solutions at WoTS 2024

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The World of Technology & Science trade fair will open its doors! To be precise, the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht will host the WoTS trade fair from Tuesday 24 to Friday 27 September 2024.

Together with sister organisation SALM AND KIPP, we will present ourselves as an exhibitor with a stand. You are welcome to visit our stand in hall 7, stand B046!

Click here for your free ticket!

What we show you:

      • ICP-OES and ICP-MS standards from Inorganic Ventures
      • Sample introduction systems for ICP-OES and ICP-MS from Glass Expansion
      • Katanax X-300 Fusion Fluxer from Environmental Express – for accessing samples for XRF and/or ICP analysis
      • New! SNRG Block™ System for Digestion (open digestion) from Analytichem (formerly SCP Science) – for open digestion.
        heating block for digesting 48 DigiTUBEs of 50mL at a time as sample preparation for your ICP analysis. The temperature course of the digestion is recorded in the specially developed Go2Temp software.
      • GPC set from Knauer – The AZURA® SEC provides solutions for the analysis, separation and fractionation of sample components based on size and molecular weight. This system is useful for industries such as polymer, food, biochemistry, pharmaceuticals and research.
      • New! Nanoscaler from Knauer – The IJM NanoScaler system is designed for laboratory-scale formulation of lipid nanoparticles. It allows scientists to optimize process parameters for formulating API-containing lipid nanoparticles.
      • puriFlash 5,250 from Advion Interchim Scientific – This system enables rapid purification with normal or reverse phase chromatography, collecting fractions by mass. Ensuring safety and accuracy, the system confirms the mass and purity of collected fractions using UV/VIS, ELSD or in combination with MS.
      • New! SPE-LV6 from Advion Interchim Scientific – a compact, automatic system for sample preparation by solid-phase extraction. It makes the process more reliable and safer, and is ideal for analytical chemists seeking automatic solutions instead of manual work.
      • Freezer Mill and Cryo-Blade™ by Cole Parmer-Especially for grinding/pulping difficult to grind and tough samples!
      • Heracles E-Nose – This instrument is both electronic nose and Ultra Fast gas chromatograph and makes an overall odor profile and chemical composition analysis in one run.
      • New! Polarimeter P8000 from Krüss Optronic
      • New! Vasco Kin from Cordouan – NanoParticle Characterization system for remote, in-situ DLS measurements in any transparent container via an Optic Fibre. With interchangeable external accessories for concentrated suspension (DTC) measurements and In-Line Millifluidic measurements under Continuous Flow.

Our team of product specialists is ready to explore if our solutions fit your needs!

SPEX SamplePrep: from SPEX® to Cole-Parmer®

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The SPEX SamplePrep brand name, whose best-known products include the 2010 Geno/Grinder and Freezer/Mill, no longer exists.

SPEX® was purchased by Cole Parmer, part of Antylia Scientific, in 2019. Until now, SPEX has continued to exist as the brand name for the products we represent. However, that has now changed; Cole Parmer has now consolidated the various brands they purchased into one world-class brand. The idea behind it is that they want to provide one brand experience of significance.

Besides a cosmetic change to the products, this brand change does not affect the product features you are used to from SPEX.

What does change are the type numbers of the various products:

Overview of old SPEX type numbers with new Cole Parmer type numbers
SPEX Homogenisers Cole-Parmer Homogenisers
Geno/Grinder 2010HG-600 Geno/Grinder 2010
1600 MiniGHG-400 MiniG
1200, 1200C GenoLyteHG-200, HG-250 GenoLyte
6875D Freezer/MillCG-500 Freezer/Mill
6775 Freezer/MillCG-200 Freezer/Mill
8000D Mixer/MillBM-450 Mixer/Mill
5120 Mixer/MillBM-200 Mixer/Mill
8200 Planetary MillBM-600 Planetary Mill
8550 ShatterboxSM-300 Shatterbox
8530 ShatterboxSM-200 Shatterbox
3636 X-PressXP-400 X-Press

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Instrument Solutions exposant op Laborama 2024

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Op 14 & 15 maart 2024 vindt in Brussels Expo de vakbeurs Laborama plaats. Instrument Solutions neemt ook dit jaar weer, samen met zusterbedrijf Salm en Kipp, deel als exposant.

Onze Product Specialisten staan voor u klaar om te informeren over ons aanbod en u verder te helpen om oplossingen te vinden waarnaar u op zoek bent.

Parallel aan de beurs is er net als vorig jaar ook een 2-daags congres, The Laborama Community: Scientific Sessions, dat plaats zal vinden  achteraan Paleis 3. Inschrijven hiervoor kan u ook via de aanmeld button onderaan deze pagina.

Waar?

Brussels Expo – Hal 3  – België

Ontmoet Instrument Solutions en Salm en Kipp op standnummer B22

Openingstijden

  • Donderdag van 09:30 to 16:30uur
  • Vrijdag van 09:30 tot 16:00uur

Op onze stand tonen wij u onder andere:

Meld hier aan voor gratis toegang

 

 

Laborama 2022, May 19 and 20

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For the Belgian market, this normally annual Expo is the meeting place for the laboratory industry. After an absence of 2 years due to the Corona pandemic, this event is fortunately back on the agenda!

Instrument Solutions participates as an exhibitor at Laborama Expo that takes place in Brussels on May 19 and 20, 2022.

Where? Brussels Expo – Hall 1 – Belgium

Meet us at booth C26

What to expect at our booth:

  • Discover the capabilities of the Electronic Nose, Tongue and Eye from Alpha MOS
  • BWB’s flame photometer that measures all 5 elements Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Calcium and Barium in one analysis
  • Inorganic Calibration Standards from Inorganic Ventures
  • ICP-OES and ICP-MS accessories and consumables from Glass Expansion
    HPLC systems from Ecom
  • Cryogenic grinding with the Freezer Mill, GenoGrinder bead-beater and Katanax electric Fusion Fluxer from SPEX SamplePrep
  • CRM for UV-VIS spectrometry from Starna
  • Evoqua Ultra Pure Water systems
Register here for free visit

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Freezer/Mill® exclusief bij Instrument Solutions

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De Freezer/Mill® van SPEX SamplePrep is sinds kort exclusief voor Nederland bij Instrument Solutions te verkrijgen.

Heeft u monsters die te taai of te hard zijn om onder normale omstandigheden te vermalen of heeft u monsters waarvan de samenstelling of structuur verandert door de warmte die ontstaat door conventioneel vermalen? De Freezer/Mill is mogelijk de oplossing voor u.

De Freezer/Mill maakt het monster eerst zeer koud met behulp van vloeibare stikstof en verpulvert het vervolgens door de slagkracht van een magnetisch staafje dat snel heen-en-weer beweegt.

SPEX Freezer Mill 6775

De vial waarin het monster zit is gedurende de gehele maalcyclus  ondergedompeld in vloeibare stikstof en bereikt op die manier cryogene temperaturen. Belangrijke eigenschappen van het monster blijven behouden.

Geschikte monstertypen zijn o.a.: dierlijk weefsel, plantaardig weefsel, polymeren, gist,  geneesmiddelen, elektronische componenten, textiel,  haar,  tanden en botten.

Because breaking up is hard to do…

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