Category: Press Release

December 7, 2012 – Ithaca, NY – Advion, Inc., a leading life sciences Systems and Consumables developer, announces a new distributor agreement has been executed with Valtex International Corporation. With over 25 years of experience focused on scientific instrumentation sales, service and support, Valtex is an established leader within the region.  Valtex also has a unique expertise in research laboratories, has earned the funding for many World Bank projects, are capable of creating custom solutions and designing and delivering turn-key laboratory facilities.

“Since its release earlier this year, the expression CMS has gained great global order momentum, and partnering with independent distributors in key geographic markets is important for us to meet market demands,” says David B. Patteson, President and CEO. “It is vital that we engage an experienced analytical service and support partner. Valtex is the right ally to develop our market presence in the Russian Federation.”

As part of the agreement, Valtex will be responsible for marketing, sales, service and support of the expression CMS systems in Russia. Scientists interested in learning more about the expression CMS in Russia can visit the Valtex website www.valtexintl.com.

About Advion, Inc.
Advion is the partner of choice for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic and government researchers seeking to enhance their mass spectrometry and chemical synthesis workflows. Using our deep scientific and engineering expertise, we develop a broad portfolio of purpose-built mass spectrometers, nanoelectrospray ionization sources, and flow-chemistry synthesis systems and consumables characterized by their reliability, quality, flexibility and fit for purpose design.  More about the company can be found at www.advion.com.

For Advion, Inc.
Amy Lummus
Manager of Corporate Marketing Communications
Advion, Inc.
Telephone: 1.607.379.4565
alummus@advion.com

November 1, 2012 – Ithaca, NY – Advion, Inc., a leading life sciences Systems and Consumables developer, in response to heavy inbound interest from government research and homeland security organizations, has named Government Scientific Source (GSS) as a United States government distributor for the new expression CMS, compact mass spectrometer. GSS has approved GSA pricing for the CMS, and will facilitate the most efficient purchase of the CMS for these organizations.

“We have experienced strong demand across a range of government organizations for our new mass spec, and we needed a strong incumbent government purchasing partner to execute these opportunities. A respected partner with a broad range of life science products, along with GSA pricing, is vital for Advion to serve the United States government market,” says David B. Patteson, President and CEO. “GSS provides a history of strong customer support and purchasing experiences which will benefit our new users.”

Interested government facilities should visit the GSS website or contact the GSS customer support team at 1.800.248.8030 for more purchasing information about Advion and the expression CMS.

About Advion, Inc.
Advion is the partner of choice for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic and government researchers seeking to enhance their mass spectrometry and chemical synthesis workflows. Using our deep scientific and engineering expertise, we develop a broad portfolio of purpose-built mass spectrometers, nanoelectrospray ionization sources, and flow-chemistry synthesis systems and consumables characterized by their reliability, quality, flexibility and fit for purpose design.  More about the company can be found at www.advion.com.

For Advion, Inc.

Amy Lummus
Manager of Corporate Marketing Communications
Advion, Inc.
Telephone: 1.607.379.4565
alummus@advion.com

October 10, 2012 – Ithaca, NY – Advion, Inc., a leading life sciences Systems and Consumables developer, announces the appointment of Vijay Gupta, PhD as Vice President International Business Development and Support focused on the expression compact mass spectrometer (CMS). This continues Advion’s expansion within all areas of the organization from manufacturing, service/support and sales and marketing, which has accelerated since the Spring of 2012.  The CMS high performance single quadrupole mass spectrometer, introduced earlier this year, has achieved immediate success and significant orders from Asian markets, with volume from this region at more than twice the anticipated levels to date.  With a multi-channel distribution strategy that utilizes distributors, direct sales and OEM partners, Dr. Gupta will be responsible for managing and supporting these regional relationships, as well as engaging directly with customers to maximize the success of the broadening mass spec product lines.

As recognized by leading global instrument companies, Asia, South America and the Middle East represent a large base of industrial and academic synthetic chemists developing novel structures for medical and chemical purposes.  All of these scientists will benefit from the high performance, affordable, compact expression CMS.

Dr. Gupta is a seasoned professional in Advion’s organic chemistry markets having been a bench chemist himself, and serving as the head of International sales for many years at Biotage and Biolin.  “Many of our management team, Asian partners, and customers already know Vijay; his name is associated with the highest customer support, business ethics, and market/applications knowledge.  We could not be more fortunate to have him aboard,” says David B. Patteson, President and CEO. “I will continue to be actively involved in these regions, but Vijay will be responsible for day-to-day activities and for leading the International strategy for the CMS.  In Asia alone (outside of Japan), we have received more orders in the first six months of our fiscal year than were anticipated for the full year.  We must add resources to support our channel partners and support the customers.  It’s a great situation for us at this particular moment.”

The appointment of Dr. Gupta to Advion’s executive management team is the latest in the company’s more than 20% expansion in headcount to meet the fast-growing global demand for the new compact mass spectrometer. In the most recent quarter ending September 30^th, orders for the product more than tripled from the previous quarter, were 50% above plan, and are on a unit volume run rate approaching nearly 10% of the global single quadrupole market share in the first year following production launch.   A global training center and program will be initiated for all customers in November and benefit from the LC/MS knowledge backbone of the company.

“We took great care to develop the expression CMS, and the response from the marketplace has proven that the product has hit its mark with not only our target market, but in application areas we did not fully anticipate. We are now in the enviable position of keeping pace with the market,” concludes Mr. Patteson.

About Advion, Inc.
Advion is the partner of choice for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic and government researchers seeking to enhance their mass spectrometry and chemical synthesis workflows. Using our deep scientific and engineering expertise, coupled with unrivaled skills at miniaturization, we develop a broad portfolio of purpose-built compact mass spectrometers, nanoelectrospray ionization sources, and flow-chemistry synthesis systems and consumables characterized by their reliability, quality, flexibility and fit-for-purpose design.  More about the company can be found at www.advion.com.

For Advion, Inc.

Amy Lummus
Manager of Corporate Marketing Communications
Advion, Inc.
Telephone: 1.607.379.4565
alummus@advion.com

June 28, 2012 – Ithaca, NY – Advion, Inc. a leading life sciences Systems and Consumables developer, continues to expand its global coverage and appoints Scientifix Pty Ltd as the exclusive Australian distributor for the expression, a Compact Mass Spectrometer (CMS) approximately half the size, and half the price, of existing single quadrupole mass spectrometers on the market. The newly-released CMS has recently been introduced to the market in Australia with visits to leading Pharma and academic/government research sites – with great interest and end user orders are already received and being delivered. Scientifix will also represent Advion for its broadening Ion Source range, including the popular TriVersa NanoMate, and the newly released Chip-Mate.

The expression CMS is designed for the discovery research and process development synthetic organic chemistry market. Compact enough to operate in fume hoods and space-restricted laboratories, chemists now have direct access to identify, monitor and confirm compounds rapidly as they are created in the reactor. Moreover, the personal single quadrupole mass spectrometer allows for rapid compound confirmation of normal phase chromatography fractions.

Traditionally, chemists initiate a multi‐hour reaction and periodically withdraw samples for analysis in an open access mass spectrometry lab. The remote analysis can take hours, decreasing the usefulness of the information and building workflow inefficiencies. Additionally, large numbers of normal phase purification fractions are generated and add to the central lab burden, further slowing vital feedback. Available systems are too complex, costly, large and lacked design elements to be used in a hood next to the reaction. The expression CMS is easy to use with an intuitive software package. The combination of a small footprint (< 11 inches wide) and critical design features which permit operation within a fume hood, or next to existing bench instrumentation, conserve valuable laboratory space.

“We are very pleased to welcome Scientifix to our growing global network of distributors. This is a very experienced, technically gifted and supportive partner – and they have uncommon skills in both the synthetic chemistry and biochemistry. We could not be more fortunate to have this company on our team,” says David B. Patteson, Advion’s CEO.

“Scientifix are pleased to be involved with Advion who are already established as one of the innovators of mass spectrometry. Adding the mass spectrometry range to the products already represented by Scientifix strengthens our links with researchers in many areas of organic synthesis, proteomics and analytical chemistry. Furthermore the customer focused business model adopted by Scientifix assures researchers of competent and ethical support for these exciting products,” says Ken Baker, the Laboratory Products Specialist for Scientifix Pty Ltd.

About Advion, Inc.
Advion develops, manufactures and globally supports mass spectrometers, chip-based ion sources, microfluidic flow chemistry systems and consumables for life science and related industries. We seek to enhance analysis performance and workflows. Using our deep scientific and engineering knowledge of mass spectrometry and microfludics, we leverage our passionate employees’ commitment to create quality, flexible and fit-for-purpose solutions. More about Advion, Inc. can be found on their website, www.advion.com.

About Scientifix Pty Ltd
Scientifix Pty Ltd is a specialist supplier to the scientific research community offering reagents and consumables for nucleic acid and genomic researchers as well as specialty instrumentation for life science and general analytical laboratories. Scientifix manufacture a wide range of centrifuges and spectrophotometers as well as representing specialist suppliers of high tech instrumentation. More details can be found at www.scientifix.com.

For Advion, Inc.
Amy Lummus
Manager of Corporate Marketing Communications
Advion, Inc.
Telephone: 1.607.379.4565
alummus@advion.com

For Scientifix
Ken Baker
Laboratory Products Specialist
Scientifix Pty Ltd
Telephone: +61 03 8540 5900
Freecall in Australia 1800 007 900
ken@scientifix.com.au

June 14, 2012 – Ithaca, NY – Advion, Inc., a leading life sciences systems and consumables developer, introduced the Chip-Mate™ at the 2012 ASMS annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. Chip-Mate is an ESI Chip® based nano-LC ion source for applications requiring small micron ID HPLC columns and nano-electrospray ionization. The Chip-Mate is a customer-desired addition to the well-established TriVersa NanoMate® family of nano-ESI solutions.

The Chip-Mate is an affordable, compact, robust, easy-to use nano-LC ion source which features the same stable and reliable ionization, spray sensing and next nozzle features proven in the TriVersa NanoMate. These important features are required for proteomic applications, as well as highly regulated assays such as biomarker/biosimilar and small molecule quantification utilizing nano-LC.

Advion has also created a fit-for-purpose smaller array ESI Chip with 25 emitter nozzles capable of running one month for routine usage environments. Researchers can rest easy during 24/7 nano-LC/MS/MS operation.

About Advion, Inc.
Advion develops, manufactures and globally supports mass spectrometers, chip-based ion sources, microfluidic flow chemistry systems and consumables for life science and related industries. We seek to enhance analysis performance and workflows. Using our deep scientific and engineering knowledge of mass spectrometry and microfludics, we leverage our passionate employees’ commitment to create quality, flexible and fit-for-purpose solutions. More about Advion, Inc. can be found on their website, www.advion.com.

For Advion, Inc.
Amy Boardman Lummus
Manager of Corporate Marketing Communications
Advion, Inc.
Telephone: 1.607.379.4565
alummus@advion.com

April 26, 2012 – Ithaca, NY – Advion, Inc. a leading life sciences systems and consumables developer, continues to expand its global coverage and appoints Yair Technologies as the exclusive Israeli distributor for the expression, a compact mass spectrometer (CMS) approximately half the size, and half the price, of existing single quadrupole mass spectrometers on the market. The newly-released CMS is being introduced to the market in Israel and visits to leading pharmaceutical and academic/government research sites have begun with great interest.

The expression CMS is designed for the discovery research and process development synthetic organic chemistry market. Compact enough to operate in fume hoods and space-restricted laboratories, chemists now have direct access to identify, monitor and confirm compounds rapidly as they are created in the reactor. Moreover, the high performance single quadrupole mass spectrometer allows for rapid compound confirmation of normal phase chromatography fractions. A growing interest seen in Israel is the potential use of the product in scale-up facilities focused on API production for impurity analysis and cleaning validation.

Traditionally, chemists initiate a multi‐hour reaction and periodically withdraw samples for analysis in an open access mass spectrometry lab. The remote analysis can take hours, decreasing the usefulness of the information and building workflow inefficiencies. Additionally, large numbers of normal phase purification fractions are generated and add to the central lab burden, further slowing vital feedback. Available systems are too complex, costly, large and lacked design elements to be used in a hood next to the reaction. The expression CMS is easy-to-use with an intuitive software package. The combination of a small footprint (< 11 inches wide) and critical design features which permit operation within a fume hood, or next to existing bench instrumentation, conserve valuable laboratory space.

“We are very pleased to welcome Yair Shahar and his company to our growing network of distributors. This is an immensely experienced, technically astute and supportive partner – we could not be more fortunate to have his company on our team,” says David B. Patteson, Advion’s CEO. “Yair is the best partner for this product in Israel. They have deep relationships across the country, and with all of our intended customers.”

According to Yair Shahar, “At Yair Technologies, we are very happy to become part of the network of Advion for distribution. Their Technologies are more than just a good product or service. Advion’s solutions like the TriVersa NanoMate and the Expression CMS are designs of instruments that bring to our customers novel ways to handle the ever growing complexity of science that customers want to develop and reach; yet within the most effective simplicity of automation and cost efficiency of use. We know that this shared vision between our two companies will bring forward our business cooperation strongly.”

About Advion, Inc.
Advion develops, manufactures and globally supports mass spectrometers, chip-based ion sources, microfluidic flow chemistry systems and consumables for life science and related industries. We seek to enhance analysis performance and biochemistry workflows. Using our deep scientific and engineering knowledge of mass spectrometry and microfludics, coupled with decades of personal experience as one of North America’s largest bioanalytical LC-MS CROs, we leverage our passionate employee’s employees’ commitment to create robust, reliable, quality, flexible and fit-for-purpose solutions. More about Advion, Inc. can be found on their website, www.advion.com.

About Yair Technologies
With a combined 10 years of experience in the field of laboratory equipment and consumables in Israel, Yair Technologies provides a complete solution to our customer’s needs in all their fields of applications, and addresses their specific needs by offering state of the art technology and products.

For Advion, Inc.
Amy Boardman Lummus
Manager of Corporate Marketing Communications
Advion, Inc.
Telephone: 1.607.379.4565
alummus@advion.com

For Yair Technologies
Yair Shahar
Vice-president and CTO
Yair-technologies LTD
Telephone: +972-50-8314887
yairs@yair-technologies.com

March 26, 2012 – Ithaca, NY– Advion, Inc. announces that numerous orders have been received from North America, Europe and Asia for their new expression CMS single quadrupole mass spectrometer. Despite the official launch timed for Pittcon March 12-15, and ACS March 25-28, early commercial demand for the product from the market has exceeded all expectations. According to Dave Patteson, Advion’s President and CEO, “There have been few product launches in my 30 year career which have paralleled the inbound interest from both end users and OEM partners for this product. It seems as if we have truly opened a new market segment with an enabling price point, footprint, features and form factor. The original vision for this product dates back nearly ten years to discussions we held with leaders from major pharmaceutical accounts, and we have them to thank for this outcome.”

Advion has begun shipments of the expression CMS, and has exceeded the initial order rates and production forecasts expected for the product line. The company is expanding its production facilities to accommodate the demand and expects to be fully operational in the new site by mid-April. As noted in a press conference held last week at Pittcon, the favorable demand has consumed the company’s production capacity through May. Advion has responded to this by increasing capacity, building more units, and hiring additional staff to meet customer and partner requirements.

About Advion, Inc.
Advion is the partner of choice for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic and government researchers seeking to enhance their mass spectrometry and chemical synthesis workflows. Using our deep scientific and engineering expertise, we develop a broad portfolio of purpose-built mass spectrometers, nanoelectrospray ionization sources, and flow-chemistry synthesis systems and consumables characterized by their reliability, quality, flexibility and fit for purpose design. More about the company can be found at www.advion.com.

For Advion, Inc.
Amy Boardman
Manager of Corporate Marketing Communications
Advion, Inc.
Telephone: 1.607.379.4565
aboardman@advion.com

ORLANDO, FL – March 12, 2012 – Advion, Inc. a leading life sciences Systems and Consumables developer, introduces the expression, a Compact Mass Spectrometer (CMS), designed for the discovery research and process development synthetic organic chemistry market. Compact enough to operate in fume hoods and space-restricted laboratories, these chemists now have direct access to identify, monitor and confirm compounds rapidly as they are created in the reactor. Moreover, the personal single quadrupole mass spectrometer allows for rapid compound confirmation in normal phase chromatography fractions.

Traditionally, chemists initiate a multi‐hour reaction and periodically withdraw samples for analysis in an open access mass spectrometry lab. The remote analysis takes hours, decreasing the usefulness of the information and building workflow inefficiencies. Additionally, large numbers of normal phase purification fractions are generated and add to the central lab burden, further slowing vital feedback. The combination of a small footprint, critical design features, and an intuitive software package permits operation within a fume hood, or next to existing bench instrumentation, allowing users access to fast answers.

The newly-released and shipment-ready CMS is on exhibit (booth 1569), and a press conference is scheduled during the Annual Pittcon meeting in Orlando, FL.

About Advion, Inc.
Advion is the partner of choice for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic and government researchers seeking to enhance their mass spectrometry and chemical synthesis workflows. Using our deep scientific and engineering expertise, we develop a broad portfolio of purpose-built mass spectrometers, nanoelectrospray ionization sources, and flow-chemistry synthesis systems and consumables characterized by their reliability, quality, flexibility and fit for purpose design. More about the company can be found at www.advion.com.

For Advion, Inc.
Amy Boardman
Manager of Corporate Marketing Communications
Advion, Inc.
Telephone: 1.607.379.4565
aboardman@advion.com