GENEVA, February 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --
New Liquid
Chromatography and Mass
Spectrometry Tools
Through New
Partnership
Andrew Alliance S.A., the
robotics company that is improving repeatability with an innovative
approach to liquid handling using conventional laboratory pipettes,
and Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), today announced a new strategic
partnership agreement to improve laboratory operations in the field
of liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry (LC-MS). Through
this partnership, Andrew Alliance
aims to benefit from Waters Corporation's expertise as a leader in
the LC-MS field, and in doing so drive even greater product
innovation.
This collaboration reflects both companies' strategic investment
in creating new LC-MS solutions designed to simplify highly complex
workflows. The global LC-MS market, which is projected to reach
more than 5 billion USD by 2022, is
comprised of scientists and technicians who handle a variety of
sample numbers ranging from low to high throughput. Unfortunately,
the tools and equipment currently available for sample preparation
are best suited to research involving high volumes of samples,
leaving laboratories with lower throughput requirements without a
viable, reproducible, option other than time-consuming,
error-prone, manual procedures.
"Today, most LC-MS tools available are made to meet the needs of
the largest players, who run high-volume tests on a regular basis,"
said Jennifer Fournier, Director -
Product Marketing Chemistry Group, Waters Corporation. "This means
that many of our customers performing smaller volumes of tests must
execute complex sample preparation by hand. As Andrew Alliance's chosen LC-MS partner, we have
the opportunity to alleviate this customer challenge with a
combination of verified solutions that simplify inherently complex
workflows."
The partnership also promises to give mid- and small-throughput
LC-MS users higher quality data. Being sometimes difficult to
execute, LC-MS workflows can introduce process variability
resulting in a lack of reproducibility. Additionally, scientists
and technicians rely heavily on their own past experience, creating
lab-to-lab variations. The Andrew Alliance-Waters partnership will
provide new solutions to all researchers, reducing the validation
time of new assays and therefore the cost of accelerating
innovation.
"All LC-MS researchers and users should have products that meet
their needs, regardless of the volume of samples that they are
handling," said Piero Zucchelli, CEO
and co-founder of Andrew Alliance.
"With Waters, we're creating new products specifically designed for
the LC-MS market."
As a result of this agreement, new best-in-class products will
be launched during 2019.
In June of 2017, Andrew Alliance
and Waters Corporation announced a co-marketing agreement for a
semi-automated sample preparation approach for protein therapeutics
glycosylation profiling.
About Andrew
Alliance
Andrew Alliance is dedicated to
advancing science by working with researchers to create a new class
of easy-to-use robots and connected devices that take
repeatability, performance and efficiency of laboratory experiments
to the level required by 21st century biology. Its new class of
high-performance, easy-to-use robots, dramatically improve the
repeatability, performance and speed of liquid handling, using
sustainable technology. This customer-centric approach, and Andrew,
the flagship robot, have won numerous accolades since 2013,
transforming bench research in hundreds of pharmaceutical,
diagnostic and academic laboratories worldwide, by eliminating
routine pipetting errors and time-consuming manual efforts.
Andrew Alliance, a
CO2-Neutral Certified Company, is based in Geneva, Boston and Paris. Visit andrewalliance.com to learn
more.
About Waters Corporation
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT), the world's leading specialty
measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass
spectrometry, and thermal analysis innovations serving the life,
materials, and food sciences for nearly 60 years. With
approximately 7,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly
in 31 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, and with
products available in more than 100 countries. Visit waters.com for
more information.