Academic
 The academic
market has been Viscotek’s fastest growing market for the last five years and our
largest market for the last three years.
Historically focused on Materials Characterization,
Polymer Science, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, our academic scope has grown
to include the departments of Biochemistry, Biochemical Engineering, Molecular Biology,
Structural Biology and the medical centers as the academic environment has changed,
our product lines have expanded, and our applications expertise has increased.
Viscotek
technologies are now found in most major and mid-major US, European and International
academic institutions and our presence continues to expand, a fact which bodes well
for our future in this critical market.
 Industrial
Viscotek’s industrial business is large and varied and
includes companies in the agricultural, adhesives, elastomers, food, petrochemical,
plastics and specialty chemical markets.
Our Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC)
products are found in most industrial R&D and Analytical laboratories where
the information content of this technique is critical to polymer production and
analysis, and our Dilute Solution Viscosity (DSV) instruments
are focused in QA/QC
where solution viscosity is often required as a product release specification on
the Certificate of Analysis. In recent years Viscotek’s industrial market has expanded
to include Process Control as Flow Injection Polymer Analysis (FIPA) has extended
our detector technology to include at-line and on-line applications.
 Biopharmaceutical
The biopharmaceutical market, sometimes referred to as
Life Sciences, includes small, medium and large companies in the biotech and pharmaceutical
arenas. Our technologies have long been recognized as essential to the characterization
of natural and synthetic polymers and biopolymers in applications
for targeted drug
delivery, sustained release, and biomedical devices.
However, our presence in the
biopharmaceutical market expanded dramatically as companies recognized our unique
and proprietary ability to characterize proteins in terms of their absolute molecular
weight, molecular size, and conformation, and our ability to detect and quantify
protein aggregation. Traditionally located in core analytical and formulations,
our technologies are now found in crystallography laboratories where we provide
quick-screening and high-throughput capabilities.
 Government
No stranger to the Government market, Viscotek instrumentation
can be found in the departments of the Army, Navy and Air Force, as well as major
governmental research institutions such as the National Cancer Institute and the
National Institute of Health.
We also have placements at all the premier governmental
laboratories such as Sandia National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Molecular Foundry and the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Taken as a whole, it’s easy to see that
Viscotek technology plays a major role in government research and development efforts
on all fronts.
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