LECO Corporation

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Special Issues

LCGC SupplementsSpecial Issues-12-01-2013
Volume 31
Issue 12

For more than 75 years, industries around the world have trusted LECO to deliver technologically advanced products and solutions for analytical science.

Company Description

For more than 75 years, industries around the world have trusted LECO to deliver technologically advanced products and solutions for analytical science. Today's technologies for separation science answer key questions in complex samples and pioneer high sample throughput using GC×GC, GC×GC–TOFMS, GC–TOFMS, and high resolution GC–TOFMS. All instrumentation includes LECO's exclusive ChromaTOF® operating software for seamless data handling.

Chief Chromatographic Techniques Supported

  • GC–TOFMS/High Resolution TOFMS

  • GC×GC-FID/ECD

  • GC×GC–TOFMS

Markets Served

LECO Separation Science instruments are used in a variety of applications, including metabolomics, consumer product safety, food, flavor, fragrance, environmental, and energy/fuels analysis.

Major Products/Services

An ideal choice for laboratories investigating highly complex samples, LECO products feature exclusive ChromaTOF software with all the tools needed to easily locate, identify, and quantify both target and unknown analytes, dramatically reducing overall analysis times and increasing productivity. Products include:

  • Pegasus HT GC-TOFMS

Provides full-range mass sensitivity and mass spectral acquisition rates of up to 500 spectra/second

  • Pegasus 4D GC×GC-TOFMS

Four dimensions of analytical resolution offer more complete analysis of the most complex samples

  • Pegasus GC-HRT

GCMS with industry-leading resolution (up to 50,000) and mass accuracy for high-information content analysis

Facility

LECO's global headquarters in St. Joseph, Michigan, include the Elizabeth S. Warren Technical Centre, a 28,000 square-foot facility exclusively dedicated to the research and development of innovative instrumentation and equipment for LECO's separation science line. Customer training, demonstrations, and support are available at our Life Science and Chemical Analysis Centre in St. Joseph. LECO has more than 30 subsidiaries worldwide, plus additional international distributors.

LECO Corporation

3000 Lakeview Avenue

St. Joseph, MI 49085

TELEPHONE

(800) 292-6141

(269) 985-5496

FAX

(269) 982-8977

E-MAIL

info@leco.com

WEB SITE

www.leco.com

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES

695

YEAR FOUNDED

1936