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Analysis of 18O/16O Isotope Ratios in Organic Matter by Laser Ablation IRMS
Analysis of 18O/16O Isotope Ratios in Organic Matter by Laser Ablation IRMS The first successful measurement of d13C and d18O in one go using UV lasers (e.g., 213 nm wavelength lasers) is documented in this paper by Elina K. Sahlstedt, Neil J. Loader and Katja T....
Autumn and Winter Conferences
Autumn & Winter Conferences Three more significant events still to come as our conference calendar moves into Autumn and Winter: We’ll be at ISOECOL 2026 (International Conference on the Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies) in Hong Kong...
Baton Rouge Mass Spectrometer Installation
Baton Rouge Mass Spectrometer Installation The Wetland Biogeochemistry Analytical Services, part of the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, has just taken delivery of a suite of Sercon instruments. The HS2022...
Work Experience for Bury Grammar School Pupil
Work Experience for Bury Grammar School Pupil When Development Scientist Tom Hankinson recently represented Sercon at a careers fair hosted by his old school, Bury Grammar School, he conducted some mock interviews with sixth form students. One of these students was...
LA-IRMS at Chinese Conferences
LA-IRMS at Chinese Conferences Sercon will be represented at two conferences in China this month by Techcomp, who are giving presentations on us and our LA-IRMS technologies at both events: The 12th National Academic Conference on Stable Isotope Ecology, from August...
Liquid Autosampler in Sendai, Japan
Liquid Autosampler in Sendai, Japan In the second stage of his recent visit to Japan, Senior Field Service & Installation Engineer Dave Harris went to Tohoku University in Sendai. Our customer, Prof. Yosuke Yamada, was looking forward to his new system comprising...
Laser based isotope profiling in avian tissues
Laser‑based isotope profiling in avian tissues The authors of a recent paper in the Journal of Ornithology, titled ‘Laser‑based isotope profiling in avian tissues: a high‑resolution method for ecological reconstruction’ used LA-IRMS, an advanced analytical technique...
GC-CP Installation in Japan
GC-CP Installation in Japan We’ve just completed one of two major installations in Japan, together with our long-established partners and Sales agents for the country, Nippon Sanso. Senior Field Service & Installation Engineer Dave Harris worked alongside Takashi...
Goldschmidt 26
Goldschmidt 2026 If you’re at GOLDSCHMIDT 2026, don’t miss the ‘in-person’ session for our poster entitled “A novel dual inlet large radius IRMS for isotopologue measurement” this afternoon! A great opportunity to chat with Garry Armstrong about how our SIRIX IRMS, a...
ASITA Signing Off
ASITA26 Signing off Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson had a really useful trip to Saskatoon in Saskatchewan to represent Sercon at this year ASITA Conference. Just to sign off from what was a very successful conference all round, here are a couple of great photo's from...
Training at Sercon’s Crewe HQ
Training at Sercon's Crewe HQ Sercon’s Engineering and Service team regularly welcome customers and international sales agents to our Head Office manufacturing and testing site in Crewe. Last month, Service Engineer Henry Cooke welcomed Han, Sun Wei and Biqi from...
Installation at the University of Vienna
Installation at the University of Vienna June saw Systems Engineer Tom Iordanidis at the University of Vienna, undertaking an Integra2 system installation together with training in the system and its software for Katerina Douka from the Department of Evolutionary...
Goldschmidt 2026 Preview
Goldschmidt 2026 Preview Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson from Sercon are looking forward to catching up with friends old and new at GOLDSCHMIDT in Montreal. We’ve taken over two large booths this year as we are co-exhibiting with sister companies Isotopx and Edinburgh...
10th International Clumped Isotope Workshop
10th International Clumped Isotope Workshop You’ll be able to find Garry Armstrong at the 10th International Clumped Isotope Workshop in Utrecht from June 23-26, 2026, representing Sercon and joined by Steve Guilfoyle from our sister company Isotopx. Steve will be...
Ghent University
Ghent University Some photos from the Universiteit Gent in Belgium. Senior Field Service & Installation Engineer Dave Harris has just returned from a repair to a HTEA unit at Universiteit Gent in Belgium. The Isotope Bioscience Laboratory, (ISOFYS), part of the...
“A novel dual inlet large radius IRMS for isotopologue measurement”
“A novel dual inlet large radius IRMS for isotopologue measurement” Don’t miss Garry Armstrong’s talk later this morning, at 11.25am, on “A novel dual inlet large radius IRMS for isotopologue measurement” as part of the ASITA 2026 Conference. He’ll be talking about...
ASITA 2026 – Lunch anyone?
ASITA 2026 – Lunch anyone? We’re delighted to confirm that we are sponsoring today’s lunch in the marquee from 12.15pm at ASITA 2025! Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson have made the trip to Saskatoon in Saskatchewan to represent Sercon at this year ASITA Conference....
The world’s only benchtop combined EA-IRMS
The world’s only benchtop combined EA-IRMS If you use EA-IRMS in your research, then the capabilities of the Sercon Integra2 are worth exploring. The only benchtop combined EA-IRMS, the Integra 2 seamlessly incorporates the high-level design features of our renowned...
UZ Antwerpen
UZ Antwerpen The end of April saw Systems Engineer Henry Cooke spending a couple of days with Machteld Vanderwayden at the Chromatography Lab at UZ Antwerpen. Machteld and his team use an older Sercon ABCA instrument for the purposes of H. Pylori breath testing and...
TRACE 2026 Update
Benvenuti a Roma to everyone at TRACE 2026! Garry Armstrong is enjoying the talks at TRACE 2026 the annual meeting of the Association for Tree-Ring Research, which brings together scientists from all corners of the tree-ring research world and is an exciting hub of...
Did you miss our webinar on Integrating Raman Spectroscopy & Stable Isotope IRMS in Geochemistry?
Did you miss our webinar on Integrating Raman Spectroscopy & Stable Isotope IRMS in Geochemistry? No problem, you can watch the full recording here: The recording features Angela Flack (Edinburgh Instruments), Steve Guilfoyle (Isotopx), and Garry Armstrong...
ASITA 2026 – Will we see you there?
ASITA 2026 – Will we see you there? Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson will be representing Sercon at this year’s ASITA 2026 Conference (Advances in Stable Isotope Techniques and Applications), in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan from June 7th–10th, 2026. The focus of the...
Webinar Final Call
Final call for tomorrow’s webinar on Integrating Raman Spectroscopy & Stable Isotope IRMS in Geochemistry Tuesday 19 May - 11 AM BST Join Angela Flack (Edinburgh Instruments), Steve Guilfoyle (Isotopx), and Garry Armstrong (Sercon) for a joint webinar exploring...
TRACE 2026 Rome – Tree Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology
TRACE 2026 Rome – Tree Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology A week on Monday will Garry Armstrong at TRACE 2026 in Rome. The annual meeting of the Association for Tree-Ring Research, TRACE brings together scientists from all corners of the tree-ring research...
Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei in Taiwan
Service and maintenance visit to the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei in Taiwan Thomas Iordanidis, one of our team of systems engineers, is just back from a service and maintenance visit to the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica,...
If you’re at EGU…
Find us at EGU at Booth 18! Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson are excited to be attending this year’s EGU, where they have a joint stand with sister companies Isotopx and Edinburgh Instruments Instruments.
Backward Compatibility and Why it Matters
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 continue to push the barriers of known science, Sercon continues to incrementally develop...
Introducing Mark Widgery
Introducing Mark Widgery Mark Widgery joined Sercon Instruments 14 months ago as a Production Engineer, a varied role, which has continued to develop over his time with the business as he has taken on additional responsibilities with the retirement of our Production...
Less than 2 weeks to EGU 2026 – will you be there too?
Less than 2 weeks to EGU 2026 – will you be there too? You’ll find Sercon’s Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson on booth 18 at this year’s EGU General Assembly from May 3rd to 8th. This year, Garry and Mark will be joined by Steve Guilfoyle and Foz Anis from our sister...
Precise argon isotope measurements using SIRIX IRMS
Precise argon isotope measurements using SIRIX IRMS We’ve recently published a new application note on the Sirix IRMS, The measurement of argon isotope ratios has been a routine part of geochemistry for many decades. In particular, the argon-argon dating method...
XIV South American Symposium on Isotope Geology (SSAGI) in Uruguay
XIV South American Symposium on Isotope Geology (SSAGI) in Uruguay Garry Armstrong will be in Uruguay from today, 13th April, to 16th April, co-exhibiting with Shaun Yardley, Product Manager at Isotopx at the XIV South American Symposium on Isotope Geology (SSAGI) in...
Careers Fair
Encouraging Teenagers into Careers in STEM Development Scientist Tom Hankinson, recently represented Sercon at a careers fair hosted by his old school, Bury Grammar School. Encouraging teenagers to consider a career in STEM subjects is vital to the future of companies...
BASIS Symposium Brussels
2026 BASIS Symposium Brussels If you’re at the BASIS2026 symposium at the Usquare Brussels this week, why not say hello to Business Development Manager Mark Gibson and Director Garry Armstrong, who are both on the Sercon stand? They’re always keen to hear about your...
Webinar follow up
At the Scale of a Ring: Unlocking High-Resolution Climate Archives in Trees through LA-IRMS Many thanks to all those who attended our webinar on 5th March entitled “At the Scale of a Ring: Unlocking High-Resolution Climate Archives in Trees through LA-IRMS” Key...
Service and Training University of Gothenburg
Service Visit University of Gothenburg In December Sercon’s Senior Field Service & Installation Engineer Dave Harris was at the University of Gothenburg on a service visit. The lab there, led by Elizabeth Robertson (pictured in the foreground below), runs a Sercon...
South Dakota Instrument Move
South Dakota Instrument Move The Sercon Engineering team recently undertook an instrument move for South Dakota State University, in Brookings SD. Senior Field Service & Installation Engineer Dave Harris, who set up the lab for them originally, returned to take...
2026 BASIS Symposium Brussels
2026 BASIS Symposium Brussels Planning to attend the BASIS2026 symposium at the Usquare Brussels on 31st March and 1st April? Business Development Manager Mark Gibson and Director Garry Armstrong will both be in attendance and will meet with several customers as well...
1st Korean Environment Isotope Conference
1st Korean Environment Isotope Conference Saram International, our international agent in South Korea, will be attending the 1st Korean Environment Isotope Conference at Korea University from March 26th to 27 in 2026 The main conference themes include: Isotope-based...
GGRip Conference Bristol 2026
2026 GGRiP Conference, Bristol This years’ GGRIP conference is fast approaching, and this year we have a joint presence with our sister company Isotopx. Mark Gibson and Foz Anis will be representing Sercon at the events and are joined by Steve Guilfoyle from Isotopx....
Last Chance to Register
Last Chance to Register Last chance to register for tomorrow’s webinar “At the Scale of a Ring: Unlocking High-Resolution Climate Archives in Trees through LA-IRMS”. BOOK HERE Starting at 16:00hrs GMT (11:00hrs ET), the webinar features key speaker Soumaya Belmecheri,...
Universidad de Chile
Universidad de Chile Service Engineer Henry Cooke has recently completed a service visit to the Universidad de Chile in Santiago. The client, Sótero Astaburuaga Ossa from the Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas runs a Sercon Integra2, used in their Agrosciences research....
Don’t forget to register
Don’t forget to register! Don't forget to register for next week’s webinar “At the Scale of a Ring: Unlocking High-Resolution Climate Archives in Trees through LA-IRMS” on Thursday 5th March. Starting at 16:00hrs GMT (11:00hrs ET), the webinar features key speaker...
Cryogenic Cave Calcite Pearls Data Presentation
Cryogenic Cave Calcite Pearls Data Presentation Montana Puscas from Terra Analitic and Ciprian Stremtan from Teledyne Photon Machines attended last week’s 11th International Workshop on Ice Caves (IWIC) event in Ghetar, Transylvania, near the Scarisoara Ice Cave....
WEBINAR “At the Scale of a Ring: Unlocking High-Resolution Climate Archives in Trees through LA-IRMS
Join us for this webinar: "At the Scale of a Ring: Unlocking High-Resolution Climate Archives in Trees through LA-IRMS Join us for an exciting webinar “At the Scale of a Ring: Unlocking High-Resolution Climate Archives in Trees through LA-IRMS” on Thursday 5th March....
UNSA Workshops
UNSA Workshops Ready access to stable isotope measurement facilities by academic institutions, industry, and government agencies is lacking in many parts of the world, including Latin America. Over the past 5 years the University of Oklahoma (OU) and the Universidad...
Introducing Harry Rowe
Introducing Harry Rowe Harry Rowe, who works in production at Sercon Instruments in Crewe, joined the company in June 2021, on an apprenticeship straight from high school. In his early days, his role was focused on building instruments with the team. Over time, he has...
Site Tour with Damien Tootell
Site Tour with Damien Tootell The first thing Damien Tootell did when his new CEO role at Sercon Instruments was announced was to visit the site with Director Garry Armstrong to meet and chat with our team at our Head Office in Crewe, who gave him a full tour of the...
Appointment of Damian Tootell as Chief Executive Officer
Appointment of Damian Tootell as Chief Executive Officer We’re delighted to announce the appointment of Damian Tootell to the position of Chief Executive Officer. Damian steps into the role after more than 15 years of senior leadership at Isotopx and over 20 years of...
Laboratory of Tree Ring Research Archive
Laboratory of Tree Ring Research Archive Whilst visiting Laboratory of Tree Ring Research at the University of Arizona last week, Garry Armstrong visited the LTTR’s archive, home to the world's largest and most diverse collection of tree-ring specimens, available to...
A Visit from our Japanese Agent
A Visit from our Japanese Agent We thoroughly enjoyed a visit from Sercon’s international sales agent in Japan, Takashi Oono from Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation. This was Takashi’s first visit to our current HQ in Crewe, and our engineering teams equipped him and,...
University of Arizona Service
University of Arizona Service Tucson Arizona has been the hot (literally) destination for the Sercon team this month. Just before Garry Armstrong’s attendance at the Winter Plasma Conference and his tour of Associate Professor Soumaya Belmecheri’s Tree Ring Lab at the...
Arizona Lab Visit
Arizona LA-IRMS Lab Visit Last week, Garry Armstrong combined attendance at the Winter Plasma Conference with a visit to LA-IRMS customer Soumaya Belmecheri, Associate Professor at international Laboratory of Tree Ring Research (LTRR) at the University of Arizona. In...
A Year of Conferences and Events!
A Year of Conferences and Events! Sercon are proud to be involved with a wide range of events in the worldwide scientific community, reflecting the diverse range of applications in which our instruments are used. From archaeology to animal migrations, drug testing to...
Cryogenic Cave Calcite Pearl
Cryogenic Cave Calcite Pearl This fascinating example of how advanced laser ablation techniques like LA-IRMS can unlock stories hidden in nature’s archives used a cryogenic cave calcite pearl from the Scărișoara Ice Cave (Romania). LA-IRMS was used to explore whether...
Welcoming 2026
Welcoming 2026! Welcome to 2026. For Sercon, the year promises much, building on the successes of a very exciting 2025 during which we launched several major collaborations and became part of the Techcomp Group. As a team, we really do live our core values -...
Thanks for 2025
Thank You for 2025! We would like to mark the end of December and the approaching end of 2025 with a big “Thank You” to all those we have had the pleasure of working with this year; we look forward to continuing to support you and many more in 2026. Our offices will...
Visit from State Department of Petroleum, Kenya
Visit from State Department of Petroleum, Kenya Last week, Craig Barrie from Applied Petroleum Technology (APT) spent time at our Crewe Headquarters along with his visitors from the State Department of Petroleum in Kenya, who were in the UK for training from APT in...
AGU25 Live!
AGU25 Live Science is global. So when science meets, it can be anywhere in the world. This week it's AGU25, this year in the vibrant city of New Orleans. Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson have made the trip for Sercon. They've set up their booth at the New Orleans...
Integra2 Install, Oxford University
Integra2 Install, Oxford University Sercon Engineer Thomas Iordanidis has recently completed the installation of an Integra2 IRMS for Oxford University’s research laboratory for archaeology & the history of art. Start up training was also provided to Peter...
World Soil Day
World Soil Day December 5th is World Soil Day, held annually as a means to focus attention on the importance of healthy soil and to advocate for the sustainable management of soil resources. Globally the Sercon HS2022, the most sensitive small radius IRMS in the...
Romania Service & Maintenance
Romania Service & Maintenance Service Engineer Rob Kameny is recently returned from Alba Iulia, Romania, where he has completed service on maintenance of a HS2022-Cryoflex-Laser set up at the Terra Analitic lab run by Montana Puscas. The lab collaborates with...
University of Bologna
University of Bologna Maria Rosa Guerrieri (Rosella), Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the Universita di Bologna is looking at 13C data via laser ablation. To this end, Sercon’s Senior Field Service & Installation Engineer...
Visit from Techcomp Service Engineers
Visit from Techcomp Service Engineers Two service engineers from Techcomp have spent the last two weeks in training at our Crewe headquarters. Yuchen Han and Wei Sun, both based in China, spent the fortnight learning from Henry Cooke and our engineering team how to...
Introducing Sam Wilton
Introducing Sam Wilton Sam Wilton joined Sercon at the end of September as Production Engineer from an industrial maintenance background including both electrical and mechanical engineering, and working on a wide selection of machinery. He enjoys the process of a...
See you at AGU25?
See you at AGU25? Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson are looking forward to catching up with Sercon’s US based clients and other delegates from around the world at AGU25 between 15th and 19th December in New Orleans, Louisiana. AGU is always an exciting and energising...
School visit
School Visit Development Scientist Tom Hankinson visited his old school, Bury Grammar School, last week where he gave two talks. The first was to Year 6 about what a scientist and engineer does. The second was to Sixth Form students interested in a career in STEM,...
Sam Stockton Profile
Sam Stockton Profile Operations & Logistics Co-ordinator Sam Stockton has been with Sercon for nearly three years. Taken on as the company continued to grow. Sam is a key player in our operation, looking after suppliers and inventory, purchasing requirements and...
The Annual Conference of the Korean Archaeological Society
Annual Conference of the Korean Archaeological Society The Annual Conference of the Korean Archaeological Society, which this year takes place at the Global Plaza at Kyungpook National University in Daegu, will be attended by June Yoo and his team from our South...
Paul Hayes Retirement
Paul Hayes Retirement This week marks the retirement of one of our longest serving and most valuable team members, Paul Hayes, who started building mass spectrometry instruments for KCS Electronics in Crewe in 1995. KCS were contract manufacturing for Europa...
Upgrade at KU Leuven
Upgrade at KU Leuven Henry Cooke, systems engineer recently completed an upgrade project for Greet Vandermeulen of the TARGID (Translational Research in Gastrointestinal Disorders) unit at KU Leuven. The objective was to upgrade their old Europa 20-20 mass spec with...
T-Level Placement Student from Crewe UTC
T-Level Placement Student from Crewe UTC Maheen Jamil, an engineering student at Crewe UTC has just completed her second T-Level placement at Sercon, where she has had the opportunity to gain hands-on experience and in-depth knowledge of the manufacturing and...
National Honey Day UK
Celebrating UK National Honey Day The British Beekeepers' Association (BBKA) celebrates National Honey Day on 21st October each year. According to the International Trade Centre, the UK imported an average of 50,917 tonnes of honey in 2023. Some of this will have...
Supporting Research Into Two Contrasting Swamp Forest Succession Pathways
Supporting Research Into Two Contrasting Swamp Forest Succession Pathways Sercon’s instruments support researchers around the world, so we are always proud when we get a credit in the paper’s they publish, like this one published in Quaternary Science Reviews – “Two...
Simon Moseley takes on Operations Role
Simon Moseley takes on Operations Management Role Garry Armstrong, Director at Sercon, is delighted to have been able to promote Installation and Service Manager Simon Moseley to the new Operations Manager role in the Crewe-based business. Simon has been running the...
Edinburgh Cryoflex
University of Edinburgh CryoFlex Systems Engineer Henry Cooke recently installed a Sercon CryoFlex for Ben Jackson at the the Department of Global Agriculture and Food Systems, University of Edinburgh. Installation of the CryoFlex was the final piece of the puzzle to...
Successful Audits
Successful Audits We are pleased to share that our ISO 13485 and ISO 9001 audits have been successfully completed. These audits reaffirm the strength of our quality management systems and demonstrate that our day-to-day processes are well-embedded across the...
FIRMS 25 – See You There?
FIRMS 2025 - See You There? Join Sercon Director Garry Armstrong and Business Development Manager Mark Gibson at the 9th Conference of the Forensic Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry Network from 15-18 September 2025 at Burlington House in Piccadilly, London. The Keynote...
BCEIA 2025
BCEIA 2025 Sercon Director Garry Armstrong is back in China this week for the 21st Beijing Conference and Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis (BCEIA 2025), where you’ll find him on the Techcomp booth. If you’re attending the event this Wednesday to Friday, and would...
University of Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma Systems Engineer Rob Kameny visited the Stable Isotope Measurement Facility at the University of Oklahoma last month to assist with the relocation and recommissioning of a Sercon Integra2 to their new lab. Designed to support the study of carbon...
Summer Conference and General Meeting of the Korean Society for Mass Spectrometry 2025
Summer Conference and General Meeting of the Korean Society for Mass Spectrometry 2025 Our Korean agents, Saram International is represented by June Yoo and his team at the Summer Conference and General Meeting of the Korean Society for Mass Spectrometry 2025 this...
Swiss Federal Research Institute
Swiss Federal Research Institute Service Visit The Swiss Federal Research Inst. WSL in Zurich have a Sercon HS2022 and IsoEArth for C&N combustion and the Teledyne LAX-213 laser as well as a Sercon CryoFlex-LA. Senior Field Service & Installation Engineer Dave...
Garry Hits Beijing!
Garry hits Bejing! In a whistlestop trip last week, Sercon Director Garry Armstrong travelled to Techcomp’s HQ in Bejing for a short visit. The trip has been on the cards ever since Sercon’s acquisition by Techcomp last month, to give Garry the opportunity to meet...
Introducing the Sercon PyroEArth
Introducing the Sercon PyroEArth High-Precision Elemental Analyser for Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS) Engineered for analytical performance and operational efficiency, the Sercon PyroEArth provides robust elemental analysis capabilities tailored to the needs...
Meet Tom Hankinson
Meet Tom Hankinson Development Scientist Tom Hankinson joined the Sercon team earlier this summer, with a remit to develop and improve new and existing product lines. With an academic background, Tom is also in the final stages (submission of thesis) of a PhD in...
Aramco Saudi Visit
Aramco Saudi Visit May saw Senior Field Service & Installation Engineer Dave Harris at Aramco, Saudi Arabia for an instrument service & applications training visit for Norah Bin Mashan, who oversees the lab, and her team. The lab team will be running 13C/18O...
Did you know Sercon’s ABCA2 is FDA approved?
Did you know Sercon’s ABCA2 is FDA approved? That’s right, Sercon’s ABCA2 automated breath 13CO2 analyser is the only FDA approved high performance IRMS instrument with large sample throughput to meet the needs of today’s breath testing labs in the medical market Its...
Sercon – Techcomp Staff Meeting
Sercon – Techcomp Staff Meeting Following last week’s announcement that Sercon is now part of Techcomp Instruments, Sercon staff were invited to a company wide meeting yesterday to find out more as well as to meet some of their new colleagues in the Techcomp group....
LA IRMS (and LA CRDS) – the minimally destructive alternative for in-situ single/repeat/sequential stable isotope analyses of solid or liquid matrices
LA IRMS (and LA CRDS) – the minimally destructive alternative for in-situ single/repeat/sequential stable isotope analyses of solid or liquid matrices Dr. Ciprian C Stremtan from Teledyne Photon Machines presented this well received oral presentation on LA-IRMS at...
Sercon Acquired by Techcomp
Sercon Acquired by Techcomp We are pleased to announce that Sercon Limited has been acquired by Techcomp Instruments, a global business engaged in the design, development, manufacture and distribution of analytical instruments, life science equipment and laboratory...
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories In June, Senior Field Service & Installation Engineer Dave Harris attended the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories in Chalk River, Ontario, Canada for a service and maintenance visit. The instrument was an old upgraded 2020 + Geo Dual inlet...
Announcement – Collaboration with Isotopx
Collaboration with Isotopx The collaboration between Sercon Instruments and Isotopx that led to the development of SIRIX IRMS, a new solution for clumped isotopes and small carbonates, has its roots back in 2004, when Sercon’s Director Garry Armstrong, worked at GV...
University of Birmingham ABCA2 Installation
University of Birmingham Installation Systems Engineer Tom Iordanidis recently completed an ABCA2 with versa installation for Professor Gareth Wallis from the School of Sport, Exercise & Rehabilitation Sciences at Birmingham University. Tom spent five days on...
What do you get when
Don't miss out! What do you get when you integrate an Isotopx SIRIX IRMS, a Sercon µCarbs carbonate sample preparation system and Sercon dual inlet? If CO2 isotopologues, clumped isotopes and small carbonates are your thing, you’re going to want to know more - follow...
Goldschmidt 2025
Goldschmidt Preview Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson from Sercon are looking forward to catching up with delegates at GOLDSCHMIDT in Prague this July. One of the highlights for us is, of course, a presentation by Dr. Ciprian C Stremtan of Teledyne Photon Machines, one...
The Polish Conference on Analytical Chemistry 2025 (PoKoCha)
The Polish Conference on Analytical Chemistry 2025 (PoKoCha) The PoKoChA 2025 conference will take place in the unique surroundings of Gdańsk, with the sea, sun and beach in the background, at a number of locations around the city including the University of Gdańsk,...
International Women into Engineering Day
International Women into Engineering Day To mark International Women into Engineering Day, we thought it would be a good time to talk about our relationship with Crewe University Technical College (UTC), as part of which Sercon is providing a T-Level placement to one...
Remote Support Facilities
Remote Support Facilities As you’ll already know if you follow our page, Sercon has a team of service engineers who travel the world helping our global customer network maintain their instrumentation on a planned preventative maintenance basis. They are also called...
Installation visit to Greece
Installation visit to Greece Henry Cooke and Tom Iordanidis conducted a joint installation visit for Christina Papageorgopoulo at the Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, part of the Democritus University of Thrace in Komotini, Greece in May. The installation of the...
Chilesaurus LA-IRMS Sampling
Chilesaurus LA-IRMS Sampling In the development phases of LA-IRMS (a collaboration with Terra Analitic and Teledyne Photon Machines), a number of installations around the world were exploring how this technique can help them with their research. In 2023 one of our...
ASITA 2025 Reflections
ASITA 2025 Reflections Back in the UK after ASITA 2025 in Texas, Garry and Mark offer a big thanks to the organisers and community for making the event such a success. ASITA presents unique opportunity to interact directly with the researchers, both through talks and...
Service & Maintenance in Malaysia
Service & Maintenance in Malaysia The Food Quality Division of Jabatan Kimia Malaysia (JKM), led by Rahim Bin Ismail focus on Food Fraud. Henry Cooke, one of our Service engineers spent 5 days onsite earlier this year undertaking service and maintenance work on a...
Customer testimonial
Customer Testimonial It’s always lovely to know what your customers feel about you – here’s an email received very recently by Simon Moseley, Installation and Service Manager from Lab Manager Elizabeth Pruessner from USDA/ARS/SMSBRU: “I am retiring soon so I want to...
ANU in Canberra revisited
ANU in Canberra revisited. As our focus on our Laser Ablation IRMS collaboration with Terra Analitic and Teledyne Photon Machines continues, we thought we would revisit an LA-IRMS installation from early 2024. Professor Stewart Fallon from world-leading Australian...
World Bee Day
It’s World Bee Day! We all understand that pollination is a fundamental process for the survival of our ecosystems. Nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend, entirely, or at least in part, on insect and animal pollination, along with more than 75%...
ASITA Live!
ASITA Live - Watch Garry's talk this morning As ASITA 2025 continues at Port Aransas, Texas, Tuesday's programme includes a talk by Sercon director, Garry Armstrong on "Laser Ablation IRMS – A technical overview" - at 10.05am. Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson are both...
LA IRMS sequential sampling of pine needles for 𝛿13C analysis
LA IRMS sequential sampling of pine needles for 𝛿13C analysis We’re pleased to publish a new application note using the Laser Ablation IRMS techniques pioneered by a collaboration between Sercon, Terra Analitic and Teledyne Photon Machines. Great Basin bristlecone...
Amherst Installation
Amherst Installation Service engineer Rob Kameny recently spent time at Amherst College, University of Massachusetts, to install a replacement Elemental Analyser and relocate a number of other instruments into the new Beneski Earth Sciences lab for Prof. David S....
Laser Ablation in Action
Laser Ablation in Action The high profile Laser Ablation IRMS technique uses a finely focused laser beam to remove microscopic amounts of material from the sample surface, which can be seen in this clever little video. One of the technique's key benefits is that it is...
ASITA 2025
ASITA 2025 This year’s ASITA 2025 Conference (Advances in Stable Isotope Techniques and Applications ) is hosted by the CORE laboratory, led by Dr. Ryan Hladyniuk, in Port Aransas, Texas, from May 18th to 21st, 2025. Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson will be...
Multi-Lingual Support for LA-IRMS site
Multi-Lingual Support for LA-IRMS site As the three way Laser Ablation IRMS technique collaboration between Sercon, Terra Analitic and Teledyne Photon Machines continues to draw international interest (thanks for the heads up Google Analytics!), we have added...
The Value of Collaboration
The Value of Collaboration Few real breakthroughs are achieved without collaboration, and the Laser Ablation IRMS is a case in point according to Sercon Director Garry Armstrong and Damon Green, Business Unit Manager at Teledyne Photon Machines. Damon is a geologist...
Introducing Thomas Iordanidis
Thomas Iordanidis Thomas Iordanidis joined the Sercon Instruments team in February this year, from Key Forensics. Having spent two years working in the lab, he developed a fascination for the instrumentation, which led him to apply for a Service Engineer role at...
KOREA LAB 2025 Kintex at Goyang
KOREA LAB 2025 Kintex at Goyang June Yoo from Sercon’s International Agent in Korea, Saram International, is looking forward to catching up with delegates at one of Korea’s big exhibitions KOREA LAB 2025 Kintex at Goyang from Apr 22(Tue) to 25. Saram will be at booth...
EGU General Assembly 2025 Vienna
EGU General Assembly 2025 Vienna Fresh from GGrip Birmingham, Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson are moving on to the EGU General Assembly 2025 in Vienna at the end of the month – you’ll be able to find them at booth number 110. The EGU General Assembly 2025 is fast...
LA-IRMS – a Primer
Laser Ablation-Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (LA-IRMS) – A Primer by Cipiran Stremtan Introduction Laser Ablation-Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (LA-IRMS) is an advanced analytical technique used to measure the isotopic composition (light stable isotopes) of solid...
Garry Armstrong and Damon Green In LA_IRMS Conversation
Garry Armstrong and Damon Green In LA-IRMS Conversation Watch Sercon’s Garry Armstrong in conversation with Damon Green from Teledyne Photon Machines about the development of Laser Ablation Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (LA-IRMS) technique which is now starting to...
Launching www.la-irms.com
Launching www.la-irms.com Sercon Instruments, Teledyne Photon Machines and Terra Analitic are delighted to announce the launch of www.la-irms.com. This is the culmination of a collaboration between the three companies dating back as far as 1996. The intervening years...
GGrip Birmingham 8th – 10th April
GGrip Birmingham 8th - 10th April Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson are looking forward to catching up with Sercon’s clients and other researchers and scientists at GGrip Birmingham in April. The Geochemistry Group Research in Progress is a new event for Sercon and is...
Southampton General Hospital
Southampton General Hospital Part of Southampton University, the labs at Southampton General Hospital, are home to an old ABCA-G service being used by Dr Paul Afolabi, which he thinks was installed in 2003. The instrument is currently being used to investigate the...
If you go down to the woods today…
If you go down to the woods today… … you may not be in for a big surprise, but on International Day of Forests, it’s worth thinking about what forests can tell us about our past and future. Whether you’re walking your dog or simply communing with nature, we can never...
Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute in Belfast
Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute in Belfast Senior Engineer Dave Harris visited the Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute in Belfast last week to reinstall their old 2022 & CryoPrep so that they can run CO2 samples from the headspaces of plant/soil...
UAB Barnas, Lithuania
UAB Barnas, Lithuania Service Engineer Henry Cooke recently visited Vilnius, Lithuania to install an Sercon EArth for the Mass Spectrometry department at UAB Barnas, where it will be used for carbon dating. The Sercon EArth was installed alongside their own...
Meet the Team in 2025
Meet the Team in 2025 Conference and Event season is bearing down on us quickly, plans are being made, flights booked and materials printed! To make it easier for you to talk to us in person about how Sercon instrumentation can support your research programme, we’ve...
Arizona Installation
Arizona Installation Senior Field Service & Installation Engineer David Harris travelled to the Bryan Bannister Tree Ring Building at the University of Arizona for a major two-week installation of an HS2022, a Pyro EArth, and a Cryo-LA with Teledyne LSX-213 GC+....
Henry’s ABCA Voyage
Henry’s ABCA Voyage Service engineer Henry Cooke recently undertook a bit of an ‘ABCA voyage’ tour, taking in three locations, all in the medical testing field: Installation of a new rotary pump at CERBA in Frepillon (Paris), for Thomas Le-Picard of the Physical...
A Guided Tour
A Guided Tour Ever wondered what really happens at Sercon? Then join Garry for a 4 minute guided tour here
Lincoln University New Zealand
Lincoln University New Zealand Further afield, service engineer Henry Cooke’s travels took him to the other side of the world at the end of 2024, to work on a PDZ Europa 20-22, GSL, TGII for Roger Cresswell of the Department of Soil and Physical Sciences at Lincoln...
Installation visit Helsinki
Installation visit Helsinki Service Engineer Rob Kameny has just completed the installation of a new HS2022 at LUKE (Finland’s Natural Resources Institute) in Helsinki. This is their second HS2022; the expansion is due to the success of their lab, and the second...
New HS2022 Installation at Sercon Analytical
New HS2022 Installation at Sercon Analytical Our engineering team are in the process of installing a new HS2022 in the lab at Sercon Analytical, a division of Sercon Instruments (they didn’t have far to go, as the two companies share office space!). “This is a new...
IAEA PUI Scheme
The IAEA PUI Scheme Under the PUI scheme (see below) run by the IAEA ( the International Atomic Energy Agency), Sercon has recently supplied an HS2022 with a PyroEarth elemental analyser. The HS2022 is, we believe, the most sensitive small-radius Isotope Ratio Mass...
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL use a Sercon laser ablation system as a tool in their tree ring research. The flash lamps in laser ablation systems need...
Service Visit to New Caledonia
Service Visit to New Caledonia Our Systems Engineers travel far and wide for installations as well as regular service visits to our customer base around the world. The southwest Pacific Ocean island of New Caledonia was a recent service and maintenance stop for Rob...
Nanjing Normal University Installation
Nanjing Normal University Late last year, Senior Field Service & Installation Engineer Dave Harris travelled to China to for a CryoPrep installation and to train our agent for future installations. Chao He from agent Lab Tech, is supporting researchers Meiqi Chen,...
Welcoming 2025
Welcoming 2025! Welcome to 2025. For Sercon, the year promises much, building on the successes of a very busy year in 2024. Now established in our new building, specifically refurbished to meet the needs of our growing business, we have the space to not just meet...
Secrets Unveiled by Notre Dame Fire
Secrets Unveiled by Notre Dame Fire Sometimes opportunities to learn arise from even the biggest of disasters. The 2019 Notre-Dame de Paris fire is a classic example, opening a unique window on the past. Researchers from France, Finland and Canada have been unlocking...
FDA approval for Sercon’s ABCA2
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 of the achievement: “The ABCA2 is the only FDA approved, high performance IRMS instrument with large sample...
AGU 2024
REFLECTIONS ON AGU 2024 Reflecting on what was a great week at AGU in Washington DC. Many Thanks from Garry Armstrong and I to all of the visitors to our booth and our existing partners for their time. It's always extremely beneficial to look back on the year, plan...
Honey Adulteration New EU Rules
Honey Adulteration New EU Rules Since the end of November, third party countries exporting honey and other apiculture products to the EU for human consumption must be registered, and consignments may only enter the bloc if they are despatched from, obtained and/or...
Isotopic Testing Guide
Guidance on Isotopic Testing The US Customs Border Protection (CBP) last week released updated guidance on isotopic testing, as it looks for more efficient mechanisms for determining the origin of cotton within U.S. textile imports. The guidance states: “… CBP is...
University of Houston
University of Houston Our first attempt to install a uCarbs system with verSA and Heated Block for Carbonates analysis at the University of Houston in Texas had to be abandoned earlier this year because of Hurricane Beryl. Engineer James Hanson led the successful...
University of Ghent Installation
University of Ghent Installation Service & Installation Engineer Henry Cooke recently installed a new Sercon HTEA instrument at the University of Ghent, Belgium. Our client, Katja Van Nieuland, from the Isotope Bioscience Laboratory, Department of Green Chemistry,...
University of California, Davis
University of California, Davis All Sercon equipment is upgradable, and on a recent visit to the University of California Davis (UC Davis) Stable Isotope Facility, Engineer James Hanson ran two electronics upgrades on some Hydra 20-20 systems, including a software...
Successful Audit
Successful Audit Physically moving a business is about much more than packing up desks and making sure broadband is working at a new office. For a high tech manufacturer like Sercon Instruments, supplies of gases as well as appropriate manufacturing and laboratory...
See you at AGU?
See You at AGU? Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson are looking forward to catching up with Sercon’s US based clients and other delegates from around the world at AGU24 in Washington D.C. this December. AGU is always an exciting and energising experience, where scientists...
Supporting Young People
Supporting Young People This one is for our local contacts in and around Cheshire and the North East of England. Sercon has long supported the development of young people, with training and apprenticeships, and most recently our engagement with Crewe UTC T-level...
Argentina Installation
Argentina Installation Visit Systems Engineer James Hanson recently worked with Jenck S.A. Instrumental, Sercon’s agent in Argentina, to complete an installation at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata in Argentina. Once the installations – an HTEA, a CryoPrep, an...
Successful Crewe UTC Visit
Successful Crewe UTC Visit As part of the relationship we are building with Crewe University Technical College (UTC), Sercon hosted a visit by 23 T-Level students from Crewe UTC last week, and is planning to repeat the exercise for the remaining students in the same...
November 24 Sponsorship of the 11th ISI Tokyo
November 24 Sponsorship of the 11th ISI Tokyo Sercon is delighted to be one of the main sponsors of The 11th International Symposium on Isotopomers (ISI), which will be held at Institute of Science Tokyo, Ookayama Campus (Tokyo Tech.), Japan from Nov 12 to 15,...
Looking forward to Crewe UTC visit
Looking forward to Crewe UTC visit Looking forward to welcoming students from Crewe University Technical College (UTC) for an open day at our new premises in the town tomorrow - we've got some hands on experience lined up for them and plenty of the team on hand to...
𝛅13C in Hair (dog and human) and Fingernail Keratin by LA IRMS
𝛅13C in Hair (dog and human) and Fingernail Keratin by LA IRMS You’ll find plenty of application notes on our new website, including this brand new one: 𝛅13C in Hair (dog and human) and Fingernail Keratin by LA IRMS Measuring 𝛅13C in hair and fingernail keratin helps...
New Website
New Website We are delighted to have launched our new website this week - and welcome! Our new website, launched this week, is a reflection of the many developments that have taken place across the business in the last 12 months. Upgraded content, including a larger...
University of Aarhus
University of Aarhus Service Engineer Dave Harris spent a week in early September at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, working in the Department of Biology, on a training visit with Gunnar Rasmussen, Laboratory Technician, who supports Organic-Geological/Biology...
Training for International Agents
Training for International Agents Sercon’s global presence (see map below) is supported by our carefully selected network of agents, who – together with our team of service engineers – work with our non-UK customers to provide the latest advice, products and...
Installation and Service Peru
The School of Chemistry at Universidad Nacional De San Agustin (UNSA) in Arequipa, Peru hosted a five day installation, service and maintenance visit from Sercon Service Engineer Dave Harris in July. The UNSA team, led by Prof. Juan Lopa and Gina Daza, undertake...
Monaco Service Visit
Systems Engineer Rob Kameny undertook a routine service visit to the Marine Biology department at the Centre Scientifique de Monaco last month. The lab, led by Dr Renaud Grover, runs a Sercon Integra2, and their work aims to understand the effects of climatic...
Moving to Europa House
Most of Sercon's office teams spent part of last week undertaking the move from Crewe Trade Park to Europa House - here's the documentary evidence!
Unlocking Medical Insights with IRMS
Garry Armstrong will be presenting a talk entitled “Unlocking Medical Insights with IRMS: An Introduction to Sercon Systems” at 10am today (26th September) in the Biotechnology Centre at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 1st International Conference on the Use of...
1st International Conference on the Use of Stable Isotopes in Medical Sciences
Garry Armstrong and Simon Moseley are very much looking forward to attending the inaugural International Conference on the Use of Stable Isotopes in Medical Sciences, to be held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison later this week (from 25th to 27th September)....
BFR Berlin
The Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung, BfR, (the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment) in Berlin recently welcomed Sercon’s systems engineer Rob Kameny, who visited to conduct an annual service on their mass spectrometers. Stephanie Panitz runs several...
ISO Audit, September 2024
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 quality is boring, obviously, but a quiet visit is always the intention as it means we are, largely, speaking,...
Synlab Belgium
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 Belgium. The ABCA2 and VerSA instruments run by Valery Daubie are operated in the Molecular Biology department,...
Europa House Preview
As we prepare to move into Sercon's new HQ, Europa House in Crewe, have a look at this quick video tour!
University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana
University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana Service engineer Dave Harris recently found himself at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. This time, his work was at the Center for Environmental Science and Technology, where he worked with Stable...
Diagnostic Centre Bled
Diagnostic Centre, BledIn a recent two day visit to the medical testing operation run by Diagnostic Centre, Bled, based in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, Service and Installation Engineer Henry Cooke worked on ABCA2 and VerSA instruments, which are under the management of...
IGC 2024
IGC 2024 The 37th International Geological Congress 2024 is fast approaching, and Sercon will be represented by our highly respected agent in South Korea, Saram International Co Ltd. June Yoo (tag) and his team will be at Saram’s stand (booth 44) from August 25-31,...
Canadian Customer Training Visit
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 Quebec at Rimouski, Mathieu Babin, has been spending last week and this with the engineering team at...
Goldschmidt Conference
Goldschmidt Conference Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson will be attending The Goldschmidt Conference in Chicago later this month, from 18th – 23rd August. The Goldschmidt Conference is a significant international geochemistry meeting, jointly owned by the Geochemical...
Lynsey Wheeldon Profile
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 vet! She finally settled on Biochemistry as a degree subject as it covered a broad...
Sercon Analytical Moves to Europa House
Sercon Analytical Moves to Europa House In the very first stage of Sercon’s move into Europa House, the Sercon Analytical lab has taken up residence in the newly refurbished building that will soon become Sercon’s Head office. As a growing business with a busy...
Queen Mary University
Queen Mary University Service Engineer Dave Harris visited the School of Biological & Behavioural Sciences at Queen Mary University, London recently to service an Integra2 (N&C) and an HS2022 & ANCA/GSL for Ian Sanders, Organismal Analytical Laboratories...
BOGS 2024 Live!
The British Organic Geochemistry Society (BOGS) Meeting 2024 has begun! On today and tomorrow at The University of Manchester, Sercon’s Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson are both at the event – if you’d like to talk to them about anything IRMS or stable isotope, just...
Medical Research at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto
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 acid absorption in humans in famine conditions, using Sercon’s 20-20, Aqua and CETAC (being used for CO2 breath...
British Organic Geochemistry Society (BOGS) Meeting 2024
British Organic Geochemistry Society (BOGS) Meeting 2024 Next week sees the British Organic Geochemistry Society (BOGS) Meeting 2024 at the University of Manchester (11th and 12th July) and will be attended by Sercon’s Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson. This years’...
The Use of Stable Isotopes in Medical Sciences
The Use of Stable Isotopes in Medical Sciences As part of our ongoing programme of supporting many of the valuable Stable Isotope conferences around the world, we have just committed to attending the 1st International Conference on the Use of Stable Isotopes in...
New Building Update
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 needs is very nearly complete! Once occupied by Sercon’s forerunner Europa Scientific, Europa House future-proofs...
Oslo Service Visit
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 in Olso. Our customer, Gunn Helen Malmstrøm, is engaged with biomedical...
Collaboration with BGS presented at SIMSUG
Collaboration with British Geological Society Collaborate. Innovate. Create. Sercon’s core values. Here’s an exciting example of how that translates into the real world – collaborations that make a real scientific impact: Dr Andi Smith, Stable Isotope Geochemist at...
ASITA2024 Social Programme
Lots of work and lots of play at ASITA 2024, in Halifax, Nova Scotia - organisers have put together an amazing social schedule to complement the hard work being done at the conference this year. Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson enjoyed yesterday's Banquet at the...
SIMSUG
Simon Moseley, Installations and Service Manager at Sercon will be attending the 16th SIMSUG meeting with engineer James Hanson, being hosted by the stable isotope team at the British Geological Survey in Keyworth, Nottingham from midday on the 18th June to midday on...
Petrol-Gaz Conference 2024
Sercon’s agent in Poland, Labsolution, is a sponsor of the 19th Petrol-Gaz Conference 2024 next week, organised by PolLab Associacion. The Scientific and Technical Conference - XIX Discussion Forum "Challenges of petrochemical and gas laboratories in the light of the...
ASITA 2024
ASITA 2024 Dalhousie University in Halifax is where you’ll find Sercon’s Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson from Sunday 16th June to Wednesday 19th June, where they will be attending ASITA 2024. The?CERC.OCEAN?laboratory is hosting this year’s Advances in Stable Isotope...
Not a Solo Sport!
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 sponsored amateur strongman Matty Franklin. Matty was on the support crew for the competition, held at...
Research undertaken on Sercon equipment
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 laser ablation isotope analysis” (see link to paper below) - research undertaken on Sercon...
Maximising instrument uptime with Sercon Service
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 is crucial in minimising instrument breakdowns and foreseeing future issues before they...
TRACE 2024 – Tree Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology
We’re really looking forward to attending TRACE 2024 next week – the annual meeting of the association for Tree-Ring Research Over the course of the week, we will be meeting with our collaborative partner for LAIRMS, Terra Analytic, who are also attending the...
Isomed Portugal PDZ Europa Upgrade
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 software upgrade and following discussions with our team, systems engineer James Hanson was tasked with the project in...
ANU Canberra Installation
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 years, working on N & C samples on an HS2022 and GSL (a combustion EA...
Upgrading mid 1990’s EA-IRMS
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 that our customers appreciate the backwards compatibility of all Sercon instruments but wanted to get a more...
Arnolds Amateur Strongman Championships 2024
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 the US, the Arnold Amateur Strongman Championships. In summary, wow, what an amazing...
Sercon Goes Back To The Future
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. And as demand for our IRMS instruments and consumables from academic and commercial sectors around the world continues...
Further Service Team Expansion
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 has already been with the business for 2 months. With a degree in Forensic Science and a masters in Analytical...
Expanding Sercon’s Service Team
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 can continue to provide first rate maintenance, service and upgrades to its customers worldwide. Since joining...
Basis Symposium 25th and 26th April
Basis Symposium Planning to attend the BASIS2024 symposium at the Amsterdam Science Park Congress centre on 25th and 26th April? Business Development Manager Mark Gibson and Director Garry Armstrong will both be in attendance and will meet with several customers as...
CERBA Instrument Relocation
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 new lab space to carry out their very high demand for 13C breath analysis. Cerba’s move to its new...
Sercon at UKAS
Sercon’s Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson are delighted to be representing the business at UK Archaeological Sciences (UKAS) 2024 Conference at the University of York from today until Friday 5th April. Held in the Spring Lane Building in one of the University's best...
Sercon Analytical Up To Speed in Just 4 Days!
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 lab set up and fully functional, from scratch and running test batches in just four days! In the new operation’s opening week the first...
Servicing a 34 year old IRMS in Helsinki
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 and costal N&C analysis using a very old (upgraded) IRMS called a Tracer Mass and GSL system....
Introducing Sercon Analytical
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 build on over 20 years of Isotope analysis experience has been realised with...
Where in the World February 2024
Where in the World has Sercon Spent February? Our service, maintenance, upgrade and installation teams do a lot of travelling to customer sites around the world – as do our business development people! Use this interactive map to see what we’ve been doing – and...
Food Standards Congress, Turkey
Food Chemistry Congress Tacettin Öztürk Sales Manager at Lita Analitik in Turkey, will be attending this week’s 3rd International Food Chemistry Congress, taking place in Antalya, Turkey, which will cover all aspects of food technology, microbiology and quality. Lita...
Good Luck Matty
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 for his first international competition in the US, the Arnold Amateur Strongman Championships. Training...
New US Agent
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 that provides elemental analysis consumables, products and technical support to the plant & soil science...
PAK Pharma & Healthcare Expo
PAK Pharma & Healthcare H.A. Shah & Sons, Sercon Agent in Pakistan, will be attending this week’s Pak Pharma and Healthcare Expo at Expo Centre Lahore from Wednesday 21st to Thursday 22nd February. The exhibition covers pharmaceutical machines, API, and lab...
Instrument Relocation in Peru
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 Universidad Nacional de San Agustin de Arequipa (UNSA) is relocating its Stable Isotopes Laboratory, and James spent a week testing...
Su Rotheram Profile
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 preparation needed for Director Garry Armstrong and Business Development Manager Mark Gibson to make the most of every...
Where in the World January 2024
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 world - as do our business development people! Use this interactive map to see what we've been doing - and...
Strongman Sponsorship
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 his first international competition in the US, the Arnold Amateur Strongman Championships. In December, as part...
Ohio State University Installation
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 Harris, for agricultural testing purposes. Mainly looking at 15N and 13C data via combustion but also,...
20th International Symposium on Isotope Ecology And Environmental Sciences
Sercon’s agent in South Korea, Saram, is sponsoring the 20th International Symposium on Isotope Ecology And Environmental Sciences at Hanyang University in Erica, Korea. The event runs from Jan 23rd – 24th at the Conference Hall at the University and is organised by...
Five Ways Backward Compatibility Helps the Environment
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 more – here’s at least five good reasons why backward compatibility in both software and...
Rob Kameny Profile
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 as the linchpin for Sercon Europe. His story and career path are more unusual than many. Rob left...
FDA approval for Sercon’s ABCA2
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 of the achievement: “The ABCA2 is the only FDA approved, high performance IRMS instrument with large sample...
IRMS Installation Ankara University
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, installed by Sercon Europe’s Systems Engineer Rob Kameny, alongside the Lita Analitik team – our...
2024 Outlook
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 the rest of this brand new year. That’s not the Sercon way. We are all about the science (specifically the isotopes) and long...
Thank You for 2023!
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 all those we have had the pleasure of working with this year; we look forward to continuing to support you and many more in 2024. Tomorrow (Thursday...
Sercon History – Up to Date!
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 Sercon was conceived in 2001 as a support company for the Europa community: In a busy 2005 we started our own development programme,...
Simon Moseley Profile
Engineering – particularly on the electrical side – has always been one of Installation and Service Manager Simon Moseley’s interests. He initially studied engineering at college before joining Sercon on an Advanced Apprenticeship in engineering and manufacturing. A...
Chilesaurus Laser Sampling!
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. The visit was for the installation of a multi-prep suite of Sercon instruments in the Isotope Analysis Lab to...
Traceability in Cotton Supply Chain
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 with Oritain, leaders in using forensic science to combat supply chain fraud to help brands like Primark...
Chile Road Trip – Copper Mining Industry
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 Engineer James Hanson. Over a four week period, James covered over two thousand miles along the west...
About Garry Armstrong
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 you learn here may surprise you in places! Garry came to Sercon from an engineering and service background, but that...
Honey Adulteration Lab Service
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 traditional beekeeping techniques with the most state-of-the-art facilities in...
ABCA Used for Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis Research
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 the Mass Spectrometry Lab. Dr Paul Afolabi will use the Sercon ABCA...
Sercon History – into the 1990s
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 and early noughties. In 1990 Europa Scientific, forerunners of Sercon, were awarded their first Queen’s Award For Export Excellence and moved into...
Servicing in Potsdam
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 for Andreas Marent. The HS2022 is the most sensitive small radius IRMS in the world. Combining superior analytical performance...
Sercon’s Roots – the 70’s and 80’s
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 the leaders, with branches in geological, archeological, environmental, medical and forensic research. At the time, a major...
Successful Quality Audit
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 quality standards is a critical requirement and never just a tick box exercise. “The audit...
Looking forward to AGU23 – are you?
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 delegates from around the world at AGU23 in San Francisco this December. AGU is always an exciting and energising...
Introducing Mark Gibson
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 its development, with many opportunities both in the UK and worldwide,” commented Director Garry Armstrong....
Attending Analytica China Conference 2020
Our Chinese agent, Labtech, are at Analytica China 2020 in Shanghai this week (16/11/20 - 18/11/20) showcasing Sercon instruments and consumables.
2020 Korea Society for Mass Spectrometry
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 are attending please stop by Saram International Booth #C and speak to the team at Saram about Sercon products.
Data bulletin: Sercon ABCA Maintenance and Decontamination
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. Read more in our bulletin > Data Bulletin - Sercon ABCA Maintenance and...
Sercon are proud to be supporting the IAEA doubly labelled water database
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 of stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) DLW...
Sercon receive ISO9001 and ISO13485 certification
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 9001:2015 is the most internationally recognised and rigorous standard for Quality Management...
BCEIA 2019
Garry Armstrong recently attended BCEIA in Bejing with our partners, Labtech to promote Sercon and meet with key customers in China. About BCEIA: Sponsored by CAIA (China Association for Instrumental Analysis), the Beijing Conference and Exhibition on Instrumental...
BGS/Sercon Poster Presented at EGU 2019.
Andi Smith from the BGS presented a poster at the EGU conference in Vienna, on the Sercon CryoGas, a cryogenic trace gas analyser optimised for the analysis of hydrogen isotopes in atmospheric methane. You can download a copy of the poster here
APUC Framework Accreditation
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 Equipment. Furthermore, for all lots in which we offer products, we were ranked no. 1 by APUC. These lots...
High sensitivity source now available in the Integra2
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 sensitivity and a larger dynamic range, the high sensitivity source allows researchers to measure small...
Coming soon to a conference near you
Sercon are proud to be sponsoring a wide range of events this year, which reflect the diverse range of applications in which our instruments are used. From archaeology to animal migrations, drug testing to digestive disorders, ecology to earth sciences,...
Sterility tested deuterated water – now available from Sercon
Sercon are excited to announce that sterility tested deuterated water has been added to the range of products in the Sercon Isotopes range. Research into the relationship between energy expenditure, physical activity...
Season’s greetings from Sercon HQ!
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. We'll be back on 3rd Jan with a new look web site, new applications notes describing the science...
The ABCA2’s role in early detection of liver damage
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 damage and type 2 diabetes in a world where obesity is causing ever more health problems. Dr Paul Afolabi, who...
#AGU16
Well what a week in San Francisco! The Sercon booth, newly decorated with penguins, hosted a number a great discussions about scientific developments and potential future collaborations, the Sercon penguin went on a tour round the exhibit hall, we learnt a lot from...
Last chance to enter our competition to win a subscription to National Geographic.
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