Rigaku Acquires Handheld Raman Products from Bayspec

Rigaku Americas Corporation is pleased to announce the acquisition of the handheld Raman technology and product lines from BaySpec, Inc. and the concurrent formation of a new division, Rigaku Raman Technologies Inc., for R&D, engineering, production, marketing and distribution.

Rigaku's new handheld Raman instruments combine patented optics and proven spectral analysis techniques with state-of-the-art, low-cost Telecom-developed optical components, providing their customers with fast, economical, easy to use, handheld chemical identification and composition analysers for explosives detection, including improvised explosive device (IED) detection; and detection and identification of many other sample types; including quality control; petrochemical exploration and process control; and many other applications.

Led by analytical technology entrepreneur Hal Grodzins, as President and CEO, the new company will be co-located in San Jose, California and The Woodlands, Texas. Initial offerings will comprise the FirstGuard™ and Xantus™ series product lines, covering sample excitation wavelengths of 532 nm, 785 nm and 1064 nm.