Markes presented 3 oral papers and 5 posters. Copies of the posters can be downloaded here.

• Recent Advances in the Analysis of Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds using Thermal Desorption-GC/MS
• Recent Enhancements to Monitoring Volatiles in Air by Thermal Desorption
• Analytical Tools for Product Development, Quality Control and Troubleshooting in the Tobacco Industry
• Introducing a New Advanced Data Reprocessing Software for Mass Spectrometry from ALMSCO International
• Introducing a New High Sensitivity Benchtop Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer (BenchTOF-dx), Incorporating On-Line Spectral Dynamic Background Compensation (DBC).

ClearView data reprocessing software is now available FREE on a 30-day trial period.

ClearView is compatible with all standard GC/MS file formats, offering significant tangible benefits and is a “must have” for anyone involved in trace analysis.

• Aids automatic identification of trace components
• Eliminates noise & background
• Improves the repeatability of integration/ quantitation
• Effective for SIM, SCAN and SIM/SCAN data

ClearView is now available as a highly cost-effective 12-month or convenient time-unlimited license.

Click here to download the 30-day trial version. Return the registration file and receive a FREE USB flash drive

Markes has been awarded, for the second year in succession, two highly prestigious awards, International Business of the Year, and Company of the Year by Rhondda Cynon Taf.

Markes director, Alun Cole, is pictured here receiving the awards from TV actress and celebrity, Ruth Jones (BBC TV’s Gavin & Stacey) and BBC News anchorman, Jamie Owen.

New and updated thermal desorption technical support notes can be downloaded (free-of-charge) from the Markes website here.

• TDTS#87: Cryogen-free monitoring of ultra-volatile freons and other greenhouse gases at trace levels in air
• TDTS#81 (revised): Analysis of canister air samples using cryogen-free thermal desorption in compliance with US EPA method TO-15
• TDTS#86 (revised): EPA Method TO-17 for monitoring ‘air toxics’ in ambient air using sorbent tubes and automated, cryogen-free thermal desorption