Agilent
Agilent Technologies, Inc., or Agilent for short, is an American technology company that manufactures analytical measuring instruments.
In June 2007 Agilent took over the German adaptif PHOTONICS GmbH, in May 2010 Varian Inc. In 2014 the company split off the business area of electronic measurement technology. This gave rise to the Keysight Technologies company.
The main products from Agilent Technologies are gas chromatographs (GC), high performance liquid chromatographs (HPLC), UV / VIS spectrometers, mass spectrometers and optical emission spectrometers with inductively coupled plasma (ICP-MS or ICP-OES), capillary electrophoresis devices (CE) and DNA / RNA microarrays. Vacuum pumps, automatic samplers and sample preparation systems are also available.
An important business area is the coupling of GC, HPLC and CE with mass spectrometry (GC-MS, HPLC-MS, CE-MS). Thanks to the numerous coupling techniques offered by Agilent between mass spectrometers and chromatography devices, the company is one of the world's leading manufacturers of mass spectrometers.
