Entries by Dr. Letzel

Review of the Year 2025

Wow, in February 2026, AFIN-TS will already be eight years old and continues to represent a small, consulting company that is now firmly established in the market. Although the perceived (and sometimes real) situation in the chemical industry in 2025 was generally assessed as rather negative, we were even able to expand our support in […]

Review of the Year 2024

We are very pleased that as a small company (now in its seventh year a start-up), we were able to research, publish, train and help partners (in their and in our laboratory) in 2024 in particular on our core topic ‘Mass Spectrometric Non-Target Screening (NTS)’, but also on instrumental analytics with polarity-extended chromatography and mass […]

Review of the Year 2023

We are very pleased that as a small company (now in its sixth year as a start-up), especially in 2023, we were able to research, publish, train and help partners (in their laboratory and in our laboratory) very extensively on our core topic of non-target screening, but also on instrumental analysis in chromatography (here in […]

Review of the Year 2022

We are very pleased that we -as a small company (now in its fifth year a start-up)- were in 2022 able to continuously research, publish, train and help partners (in their and in our laboratory) very extensively on on our core experience non-target screening as well as in chromatography and mass spectrometry. Furthermore, despite adverse […]

AFIN-TS Forum Issues 7 / 8

In the two issues of the AFIN-TS Forum (AFIN-TS Forum 07 and AFIN-TS Forum 08 ) we take up our topic on ‘polarity-extended chromatography’ using RPLC-HILIC coupling. We summarize the applications and findings of a decade (AFIN-TS Forum 07) and present an optimized version for the nextdecade with the modules of our cooperation partner Thermo […]

Research Seal 2022/2023

We are pleased to be allowed carrying the research seal of the German Stifterverband in 2022 and 2023. Since 2014, the Stifterverband has been honouring research-based companies for their special responsibility for the state and society with the “Innovative through Research” seal. The Stifterverband is the joint initiative of companies and foundations that is the […]

End-of-the-Year Review 2021

We are very pleased that -as a start-up company in the fourth year- we were able to continue in 2021 extensive research on non-target screening, to publish, to educate and to organize conferences. At the same time, the requests for NTS analyses increased significantly from the industrial and analytical sector, so that many interesting new […]