News from 2009

Cobalt appoints new CEO

Cobalt Light Systems has appointed Paul Loeffen as the new chief executive officer (CEO). Paul has direct experience of managing early-stage companies in this sector having co-founded Oxford Diffraction Limited in 2001 where he was the CEO until its acquisition in 2008 (in a deal worth $48million in total).

Cobalt's Chief Scientific Officer wins international recognition

Cobalt’s Chief Scientific Officer, Prof. Pavel Matousek is to be presented with the prestigious Charles Mann Award by the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) at its annual conference in Louisville, KY in October 2009.

Cobalt Talks Security

Mike Hargreaves, Cobalt’s Applications Scientist, has been invited to talk at a major security conference. The SPIE’s European Security and Defence conference is in Berlin from August 31st to the 3rd of September.

Cobalt exhibiting TRS100 at Co-Crystals and Amorphous in Amsterdam

Cobalt is giving pharmaceutical companies the first opportunity to see its TRS100 instrument at Pharmaceutical Co-Crystals 2009 and Amorphous Pharmaceutical Materials 2009 in Amsterdam on September 21-22. . The TRS100 is a purpose-built rapid analysis machine for pharmaceutical assay.

Cobalt presenting at Co-Crystals and Amorphous in Amsterdam

Cobalt Light Systems will be at the co-located conferences Pharmaceutical Co-Crystals 2009 and Amorphous Pharmaceutical Materials 2009 in Amsterdam on September 21-22. Mike Hargreaves, Cobalt’s Applications Scientist, will give a talk entitled “Characterisation of Crystalline and Non-Crystalline Materials by Transmission Raman Spectroscopy (TRS)” covering the rapid analysis applications for crystal state analysis.

Cobalt Chief Scientific Officer invited to speak at ICAVS

Cobalt’s Chief Scientific Officer, Pavel Matousek , has been invited to speak at the prestigious 5th International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy. The conference, one of the biggest in the world specialising in vibrational spectroscopy, is held this year in Melbourne, Australia on 12-17 July.

Cobalt exhibits at Pittcon 2009

Cobalt Light Systems will be at Pittcon 2009 exhibiting from March 9-12 on booth 625.  Cobalt will be introducing the TRS100 Rapid Assay System for pharmaceutical and chemical assay. 

Cobalt Light Systems

Cobalt Light Systems is the new name for LiteThru Ltd.  The change was made to better reflect Cobalt Light Systems' wide ranging technical capabilities.

LiteThru talk at IET

LiteThru to talk at the 26th Intelligent Sensing Programme, London