Magritek news

29 February 2008

Cooperation announced between Magritek and Fraunhofer IBMT

As a result of the success of a recently completed collaboration, the Fraunhofer IBMT has agreed to support the innovative company Magritek Limited in New Zealand with know-how and specialized products for customers.

The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is the largest organization for applied research of direct utility to private and public enterprise and of wide benefit to society in Europe. There are 56 Fraunhofer Institutes in Germany at 40 different locations, 13 000 employees, and research centers and representative offices in Europe, USA, Asia and in the Middle East.

Magritek is a spin-off technology company based in Wellington, New Zealand, that was established in 2004. The company develops new, portable and modular NMR spectrometers, the like of which are unavailable from any other commercial company at present.

Among other things, these devices have been used for environmental research in Antarctica, non-invasive humidity measurements and the characterization of the structure and dynamics of polymers and food on a molecular level. In addition, these devices have been integrated with the cutting-edge in hand-held NMR technology.

The current generation of Magritek products can be powered by batteries and generate the necessary magnetic fields by either using permanent magnets or the Earth's magnetic field.

A new potential application of these devices is for non-invasive, on-line quality control in production lines.

The Fraunhofer IBMT has agreed to develop new, customized applications for the "KEA NMR MOLE" system and will provide technical support for these systems in Germany and Europe. In addition Fraunhofer IBMT is in close collaboration to the work with Magritek on future technical developments of the overall system.

Magritek is led by Dr. Andrew Coy (CEO), and on the board of directors is Professor Paul T. Callaghan, one of the inventors, who has received many honors for his years of research in the area of NMR.

Those involved in this collaboration on behalf of the Fraunhofer IBMT include Professor Dr. Guenter Fuhr (Director of the IBMT), Dr. Frank Volke (Head of the NMR and MRI group at IBMT) and Dr. Bertram Manz (PhD NZ).

7 September 2007

ICMRM and Mobile NMR conference at Aachen, Germany

Thank you to everyone who came and made it such a great conference. It was an excellent meeting and we had a lot of fun demonstrating our new products. The 9^th International Conference on Magnetic Resonance Microscopy in Aachen, Germany from September 3rd to 7th, 2007.

29 July 2007

Paul Callaghan Blake Medal

Congratulations to Magritek director Paul Callaghan who has been awarded the Blake Medal for leadership. Also well worth a read is this article.

25 June 2007

Recent conferences

Magritek recently attended and demonstrated its portable NMR and MRI products at the 48th ENC Conference April 22 - 27, 2007 at Daytona Beach, Florida, USA. Suite Flagler B and the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB on 19-25 May 2007 in Berlin, Germany. Booth 261 Hall 15.1. Thank you to everyone who came and visited us and made both conferences so interesting and enjoyable.

12 March 2007

Update to website

Updated product section with details on the Kea and LapSpec spectrometers and more.

10 September 2006

8th Magnetic Resonance in Porous Media Conference

Magritek will be at the 8th International Bologna Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Porous Media September 10 - 14, 2006 in Bologna, Italy

6 September 2006

6th Colloquium on Mobile Magnetic Resonance

Magritek is presenting at the The 6th Colloquium on Mobile Magnetic Resonance September 6 - 8, 2006 in Aachen, Germany.

20 May 2006

Terranova-MRI released

New version of Terranova, the Terranova-MRI is released. Does 1D, 2D and 3D MRI as well as everything else the Terranova can do. Customers with existing Terranova systems can upgrade to Terranova-MRI.

7 March 2006

ISMRM 14th SCIENTIFIC MEETING & EXHIBITION

Magritek will be present at the 14th ISMRM conference Seattle, Washington, 6-12 May 2006. You are welcome to visit us at booth #335 where you can see our new Terranova-MRI, Earth\'s Field NMR Imaging system.

6 March 2006

47th ENC conference

Magritek will be attending the 47th ENC conference April 23-28 2006 at The Ansilomar Conference Centre, Pacific Grove, California. You can find us in the Afterglow suite and we will have our new Terranova-MRI, Earth's Field NMR Imaging system.

11 January 2006

ANZMAG '06 conference

Magritek will be attending the ANZMAG '06 conference on 12-16 February 2006 at Murramarang, Australia. If you are attending, come and visit our stand to see a Terranova system in action.

1 January 2006

New Year's Honours

One of New Zealand?s highest honours has been awarded to Magritek founding director professor Paul Callaghan in recognition of his outstanding contribution to science. Professor Callaghan has been made a principal companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (PCNZM). The distinction is the first PCNZM appointment since the 2002 Queen's Birthday honours.

17 November 2005

Magritek founding director honoured

Magritek founding director, professor Paul Callaghan, has won the highest science award in New Zealand, the Rutherford Medal. Professor Callaghan received the award at the annual New Zealand Science Honours dinner last night for his research into Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. This world class research underpins many of the products sold by magritek. Congratulations and well deserved.

19-23 September 2005

Magritek recently sponsored and attended the 5^th Colloquium on Mobile NMR in Perugia, Italy. The magritek stand demonstrated our brand new mobile NMR spectrometer with an NMR-MOUSE. This system is a complete revolution in mobile NMR technology. Our working name for the spectrometer system is Lapspec because it fits inside a standard laptop computer carry bag. A complete Lapspec NMR solution, including an NMR-MOUSE probe, will be available for sale in the very near future. Watch this space!

22-26 August 2005

Magritek recently attended and was a corporate sponsor of the 8^th International Conference on Magnetic Resonance Microscopy in Utsunomiya, Japan. The magritek stand included a portable Terranova Earth?s field NMR system. Meeting participants were able to observe the Terranova system in action, running standard NMR experiments such as CPMG and relaxation time measurements as well as some unusual applications such as NMR of a beer in a can! Some photos from our time in Japan are shown below.

8^th ICMRM in Utsunomiya, Japan

(left) Magritek chief executive, Dr. Andrew Coy, in front of the magritek stand. (right) Two posters featuring experiments performed with the Terranova Earth's field NMR system.

Meiji Temple, Tokyo, Japan

(from left to right) Dr. Andrew Coy and Meghan Halse (magritek, NZ), Jennifer Brown, Dr. Joseph Seymour and Dr. Sarah Codd (Montana State University, USA), Dr. Michal Komlosh (NIH/NICHD, USA)

May 2005

New magritek website is launched at www.magritek.com