Singapore, April 30 -- Japan-based Shimadzu Corporation has acquired a 75% stake of the outstanding shares of German startup Plasmion GmbH (headquartered in Augsburg, Bavaria), making the company a subsidiary.

This acquisition aims to obtain Plasmion's mass spectrometer (MS) ion source technology SICRIT（Soft Ionisation by Chemical Reaction In Transfer and related technologies to strengthen Shimadzu's MS business.

SICRIT is a groundbreaking technology that overcomes the limitations of the widely used APCI (atmospheric pressure chemical ionization) method in liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) and similar applications. Its chief feature is the ability to directly ionise analytes with high sensitivity without complex sam...