ISO Audit, September 2024 Installation and Service Manager Simon Moseley is pleased to report a very boring ISO Audit visit this month! Not that managing

This photo was taken on a recent annual service and maintenance visit undertaken by one of our Service and Installation Engineers Henry Cooke, to SYNLAB

Diagnostic Centre, Bled In a recent two day visit to the medical testing operation run by Diagnostic Centre, Bled, based in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, Service

Canadian Customer Training Visit Lecturer and Head of the Marine Chemistry and Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of

Lab Manager at Sercon Analytical, Lynsey Wheeldon, was always interested in science and nature as a child. Her career aspirations alternated between astronaut, palaeontologist, and

Queen Mary University Service Engineer Dave Harris visited the School of Biological & Behavioural Sciences at Queen Mary University, London recently to service an Integra2

Medical Research at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto The Medical Research team at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, is studying amino

New Building Update Sercon got the keys for its future premises at the end of April, and the refurbishment and reconfiguration for the company’s future

Oslo Service Visit For his first service visit in Scandinavia, Service and Installation Engineer Henry Cooke visited the Unger-Vetlesens Research Institute at Lovisenberg Diakonale Sykenhus

Not a Solo Sport! Before heading out to Romania for TRACE2024, Sercon’s Garry Armstrong was ‘encouraged’ to compete in England’s Strongest Master competition by our

Katja T. Rinne-Garmston presenting at TRACE 2024 on her paper “Drivers of intra-seasonal ?13 C signal in tree-rings of Pinus sylvestris as indicated by compound-specific and

Maximising instrument uptime with Sercon Service Unplanned instrument downtime is a challenge in today’s busy labs with project deadlines to be met.  Regular instrument maintenance

Isomed Portugal PDZ Europa Upgrade Isomed’s PDZ Europa ABCA, which has been running for around 20 years, needed new system electronics as well as a

ANU Canberra Installation Professor Stewart Fallon from world-leading Australian National University’s Research School of Earth Sciences has been involved with Sercon equipment for quite a few

Upgrading mid 1990’s EA-IRMS It’s always useful to understand how customers view what you see as core benefits and strong customer service. We already knew

Arnolds Amateur Strongman Championships 2024 We caught up with our sponsored amateur strongman athlete Matty Franklin as he returned from his first international competition in

Sercon was starting to outgrow its current site in Crewe Trading Park even before the addition of the samples lab that operates as Sercon Analytical.

Further Service Team Expansion We recently introduced Henry Cook as a new member of our service team. Another recent addition is Aoife Davies Gardner, who

Expanding Sercon’s Service Team As demand for Sercon’s IRMS products and services continues to grow, the Service team has also grown to ensure the business

Cerba Instrument Relocation Systems Engineer James Hanson recently supported a customer with the relocation and reinstallation of their entire suite of ABCA systems to a

Sercon Analytical Up To Speed in Just 4 Days! It didn’t take long for the team at recently formed Sercon Analytical to get the new

Servicing a 34 year old IRMS in Helsinki Tvarminne Zoological Station (University of Helsinki) is a remote research station near Hanko, Finland, running various marine

Introducing Sercon Analytical Following the members voluntary liquidation of the well-respected service lab Iso-Analytical an opportunity to continue the support of the Isotope community and

Good Luck Matty As the big competition approaches, we caught up with our sponsored amateur strongman athlete Matty Franklin as he makes his final preparations

We are delighted to announce that we have a new International Sales Agent covering the USA. USA Analytical Technologies, Inc. is a California based company

Systems Engineer James Hanson has been back to South America to take care of Stage One of a major instrument move in Arequipa, Peru. The

As we all approach the start of the scientific community’s conference and events season, Sercon’s Su Rotheram is working on all the behind the scenes

Where in the World has Sercon Spent January? Our service, maintenance, upgrade and installation teams do a lot of travelling to customer sites around the

Never a business to shirk the heavy lifting, Sercon are helping an amateur strongman athlete with some sponsorship this season particularly to help him with

Ohio State University Installation The Lal Carbon Center at Ohio State University plan to use their new Sercon INTEGRA2, recently installed by Senior Engineer Dave

Five Ways Backward Compatibility Helps the Environment We talked about backward compatibility earlier in the week, together with its research and cost benefits. But there’s

Science is all about moving forwards, so why does backwards compatibility really matter to the scientific community? Backward Compatibility and Why it Matters As researchers

Rob Kameny Profile Czech national and Systems Engineer Robert Kameny adeptly oversees the needs of Sercon’s European clientele from our operational hub in Prague, serving

FDA approval for Sercon’s ABCA2 We’ve just received our renewal of FDA approval for Sercon’s ABCA2 automated breath 13CO2 analyser. MD Mark O’Connor is proud

IRMS Installation Ankara University Earth Science Applications and Research Centre (YEBIM) in Ankara University in Turkey has a brand new HS2022 IRMS and PyroEarth system,

2024 Outlook Happy New Year! It’s that time of year where everyone gets out their crystal balls and speculates about what’s going to happen in

Thank You for 2023! We would like to mark the end of December and the approaching end of 2023 with a big “Thank You” to

Sercon History – Up to Date! To bring the company’s history up to date from 2004 where we left off last month, three years after

Engineering – particularly on the electrical side – has always been one of Installation and Service Manager Simon Moseley’s interests. He initially studied engineering at

The second Leg of Systems Engineer James Hanson’s Chilean roadtrip took him to the Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB), a private University in Viña del Mar.

Tracing the cotton supply chain is vital for fashion brands whose sustainability credentials are part of their social impact programmes. Sercon is proud to work

Chile Road Trip – the Copper Mining Industry There is no better illustration of Sercon’s global capabilities than the Chilean roadtrip recently undertaken by System

About Garry Armstrong If you know Sercon Instruments, you’ll know Garry Armstrong – but how much do you really know about this company director? What

Service engineer Dave Harris  visited the Interfind laboratory to service a Sercon Integra2 combined benchtop integrated EA-IRMS in Thessaloniki last week. Melinda Ltd combines has combined

Service Engineer James Hanson has just been to Southampton General Hospital and performed a successful dual turbo upgrade and full service on a Sercon ABCA system being used by Dr Paul Afolabi in

Last month, we went back to the 70’s and 80’s to the very roots of modern day Sercon, today, we’re moving on to the 90’s

Service PM Dave Harris is at the AWI institute Alfred Wenger Institute in Potsdam this week, where he has been servicing a Sercon HS2022 IRMS

The 1970’s and 80’s were a time of exponential growth in the application of mass spectrometry, and gas stable isotope ratio analysis was one of

Successful Quality Audit Quality audits can sound ever so slightly dull, but when you are manufacturing high value and high precision scientific instruments, compliance to

Looking forward to AGU23 – are you? @Garry Armstrong and @Mark Gibson are looking forward to catching up with Sercon’s US based clients and other

Introducing Mark Gibson We’re delighted to announce that @Mark Gibson has joined Sercon Group as Business Development Manager. “Sercon is at an exciting time in

Our Chinese agent, Labtech, are at Analytica China 2020 in Shanghai this week (16/11/20 – 18/11/20) showcasing Sercon instruments and consumables.  

Our South Korean agent Saram will be at the  2020 Korea Society for Mass Spectrometry Annual Summer Conference and General Meeting in Seoul. If you

Any breath sample has the potential to include contaminants such as bacteria and viruses Simple precautions can be taken to prevent the build up and spread of these contaminants.

The doubly labelled water (DLW) method is an isotope-based technique that quantifies total energy expenditure (TEE) over periods of 1–3 weeks from the differential elimination

Sercon is proud to announce that its commitment to exceptional quality has again been officially recognised by receiving the certification of ISO9001 and ISO13485. ISO

We are absolutely delighted to announce that Sercon now hold a place on the National Framework Agreement for the supply of Mass Spectrometry and Chromatography

High sensitivity source now available in the Integra2 The Sercon high sensitivity source is now available as an optional upgrade in the Integra2. Giving improved

Sercon are excited to announce that sterility tested deuterated water has been added to the range of products in the Sercon Isotopes range.   Research

Season’s greetings from everyone at Sercon to all of our customers, collaborators, suppliers and everyone in the worldwide isotope community. Thanks for a great year.

One of the scientists using Sercon’s ABCA2 at Southampton General Hospital is hopeful the technique he has developed will help in the prevention of liver

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