Cerno Bioscience announces a collaboration with Lumiere Technology, a distributor of advanced laboratory analysis equipment, to distribute MassWorks mass spectrometry data software in China
Lumiere Technology is founded and staffed by chemistry and biotechnology professionals with over 15 years experience in the GC/MS and LC/MS business.
Headquartered in Beijing and with a wide network of offices in key regions, such as Shanghai, Shenyang and Xi'an, the company is an ideal position to make the MassWorks product widely available to MS users across China.
Lumiere Technology has also been representing Thermo Fisher Scientific (formerly Finnigan) MS product lines in China since 2001 which has become the largest MS and analytical equipment supplier in China.
At present, economical, user-friendly single and triple quadrupole MS systems are experiencing over 15%AGR (aggregate growth rate) in the Chinese marketplace.
These instruments, however, are specified to provide only indistinct mass accuracy, lacking the high mass accuracy capability of a high resolution system for high fidelity compound identification.
Cerno's award-winning MassWorks can improve the mass accuracy of single and triple quadrupole MS systems by up to 100x, significantly improving the ability to identity various compounds, at only a fraction of the investment for high resolution MS systems.
By utilising Lumiere Technology's widespread networking capability in China and its many years of expertise in the MS industry, Cerno can now offer the benefits of MassWorks to users in the Chinese biopharmaceutical and environmental sectors.
"MassWorks is a truly unique product that can significantly enhance the capabilities of rudimentary, commercial mass spectrometers." comments Xiaohong Lu, executive president of Lumiere Technology .
"In China, the uptake and projected growth of such instruments has been astonishing.
"We hope to exploit our knowledge, experience and extensive distribution network to reach every MS user in China."
