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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!

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,...

As we prepare to move into Sercon's new HQ, Europa House in Crewe, have a look at this quick video tour!

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 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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 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 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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! 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! 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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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....

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.

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 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...

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...

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 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...

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