GOLD Supporters: FRONTIER LAB
Frontier Laboratories Ltd., founded 1991, is a global leading company in analytical pyrolysis, based in Japan. Frontier Lab is consistently doing research and development of analytical pyrolysis instruments and methods, and manufacturing pyrolyzers with associated accessories for a wide range of analytical applications that include physical property evaluation of polymer materials used in various advanced scientific fields such as quality control in aircraft and automobile industries, differentiation of rubber, paint, paper in forensic investigations, and identification of environmental pollutants such as microplastics.
Frontier Lab’s analytical pyrolyzer (EGA/PY-3030D) and accessories can be easily installed on almost all commercially available GC/MS systems.
In the recent years, Frontier Lab set the R&D focus on the development of accessories and software/libraries for Micro- and Nanoplastics analysis by Py-GC/MS:
- The new F-Search MPs software allows users to identify and quantify unknown microplastics in the environment, and it consists of a sophisticated search program and mass spectral libraries of pyrolyzates. The software is used with the data obtained by Py-GC/MS and the analytical process is very easy and straightforward. Also, a Microplastic Calibration Standard Kit was developed what includes mixtures of up to 12 polymers in different inorganic diluents for easy weighing and calibration.
- The Multi-Functional Sampler MFS-2015E makes splitless Pyrolysis without compromises possible, enabling 100x improved sensitivity (with LOQs in ng range). The MFS shortens analysis time by backflushing. The new Cryogenic Mill IQ MILL-2070 is easy to use and simple to operate. It pulverizes samples or micro plastic standards at highest uniformity, homogeneity, and reproducibility.