Status:
Member since: 2013
Organization: sidpec
Great and Trusted Results
Application Area: Analysing petrochemical materials (Butene & Ethylene)
"Good precision and accuracy, easy use, durable and covers all types of applications"
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2017
Organization: InChem
Very sturdy instrument and easy to repair
Application Area:Toll manufacturer
"The instrument is older, however it can still get the job done. If maintained properly this instrument will last for years. The software associated with this instrument is very user friendly compared to the competition. I have another GC from Shimadzu, but the 6890 is my favorite. Be prepared to change liners and gold seals regularly."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2017
Organization: Angostura Limited
Backbone and workhorse of my fast paced QA/QC laboratory
Application Area:Analyse fusel oils in ethanol
"Extremely high accuracy and precision. Always passes proficiency testing schemes. Routine maintenance simple and user friendly. One of my favourite pieces of equipment to use."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2017
Organization: Food and Drug Administration
Great instrument, easy to use
Application Area:Analyze drugs
"Good response and sensitivity. Software is easy to use and effective for daily use."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2017
Organization: Chemist
Easy to run
Application Area:Simulated distillation
"Easy to run, low maintenance, stable runs, good parts availability"
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2015
Organization: NBTY Inc
Lab-horse instrument.
Application Area:Testing of Residual Solvents
"Excellent instruments with high reliability and easy to use. Great performance."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2016
Organization: W2Fuel
High price, solid machine
Application Area:Natural products
"We have bought a new Agilent Technologies 7890A GC System with an Agilent Technologies 7693 Autosampler and OpenLab software. We are satisfied with the parameters of the GC. There is only one disadvantage (comparing with an old 6890 GC): 7890B has got two speed ventilator for the fast oven cooling: the higher speed of the ventilator is very noisy. Luckily we have bought another OpenLab licence for the Data analysis only. So we can evaluate the chromatograms in the quiet office contrary to the noisy laboratory. On the other hand, the analysis using 7890A GC is faster than with 6890 GC. The priority in our laboratory is high throughput, which is great. I recommend this GC machine."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2015
Organization: Inventure Renewables, Inc.
Great GC!
Application Area:Biofuel research
"Awesome instrument! Purchased used from a company called AIM in Colorado and their customer service for the instrument is excellent. "
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2015
Organization: Inventure Renewables, Inc.
Great instrument! Can't wait to upgrade the rest.
Application Area:Biofuel analysis
"Love this instrument. Upgraded from a 5890 to 6890 and now we want to do the same will all of our other 5890's. Purchased used from AIM in Colorado, and they have amazing service!! Will never purchase another instrument from anyone but them."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2014
Organization: Adhesives Research
The system is a work horse and provides quality data and results for our applications.
Application Area:Adhesives /coatings
"The system is a work horse and provides quality data and results for our applications. It is a very stable platform and performs consistently even though it is 15 years old."
Status:
Advanced ReviewerMember since: 2008
Organization: Advinus Therapeutics
Application Area:Pharmaceutical
"This instrument is really very easy to operate and thanks to Agilent. "
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2012
Organization: Balai POM
Application Area:Analyze plants metabolites
"The price is moderate, and achievable to get. The after sales is quite difficult to get in my country, but perhaps its only because of my remote location. One thing that this product is lacking has to be the report mode. It's difficult to use and modify the original template."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: Materials Analytical Services, (MAS) LLC
Application Area:Environmental/Emission Testing
"This machine is a workhorse. We use it daily in tandem with Markes & PE Thermal desorbers."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2012
Organization: Lonza Biologics
Application Area:Biotechnology
"This is Mr Reliable among the GC equipment available on the market today. It has a very good range of inlet selections (eg. split/splitless/PTV /etc) and also offers the choice of a wide range of analysis (FID, MS, etc..). The sample holder can handle up to 80-100 samples and has a very good user interface that is the icing on the cake. I highly recommend to all!"
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2014
Organization: BASF
Application Area:Separation Sciences
"It is easy to use. However some parts are discontinued. "
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: Seton Hall University
Application Area:Sample Preparation
"This is an easy to use product with various applications, especially when coupled to MS. For our labs purposes it is sufficient for analysis of peak area for optimization of different sample preparation techniques. It does have issues communicating with our auto sampler but is a very robust and versatile instrument. "
Status:
Advanced ReviewerMember since: 2003
Organization: Equate Petrochemical Company
Application Area:Laboratory
"This machine has excellent performance. It is very reliability and user friendly."
Status:
Expert ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: JRFAmerica
Application Area:Residue Chemistry And Forensic Analysis
"The system is very reliable and the result very reproducible. Cleaning of the system can take some time and can be difficult, but it is not a frequent necessity. The software is user friendly but it takes some time to get used to it. It is very useful for pesticide screening, especially in water. I have seen some good results. It is also very useful for Toxicological screening with an MSD or MS. I highly recommended for this function."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: Waynesburg University
Application Area:undergraduate laboratory
"This product is simple to use at an undergraduate level. The students are easily able to learn the principles of analytical analysis in our laboratory and apply this knowledge into learning how to analyze and interpret spectra."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: Widener University
Application Area:academic instruction
"Versatile and reliable. User friendly and has been used in the field for many years. "
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Application Area:pesticides
"User-friendly software and hardware. MS is quite robust, and offers great inter-day reproducibility. The minor services such as ion source cleaning is pretty easy in this system."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2009
Organization: THE J. M. SMUCKER CO.
Application Area:Fatty Acid Profiles, Trans Fat Analysis
"Consistent, reliable performance with very low maintenance issues. Low downtime allows 24/7 operation in a production environment. Easy to use and routine maintenance is simple and straightforward (e.g. column changes, liner changes, etc.)."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: Gruentec
Application Area:Environmental
"This instrument is very useful and easy to use, I like the software, it is very robust. I use it for TPH analysis. I would recommend it to a colleague. The web services are also good, we get a lot of information there. "
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: Seton Hall University
Application Area:Analytical
"Though the instrument works very well when it is functioning properly, we always seems to have issues with the sensitivity and proper functioning for long periods of time. Other than that it is a simple, user friendly system which is great for quick and simple sample analysis."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: University of Manchester
Application Area:metabolomics
"Great front end for GC-MS based metabolomics. Interfaces well with most mass spectrometers."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: Michigan State University
Application Area:Organic chemical analysis
"This is a very effective product. Rugged and dependable. Has been used heavily for years and is still in good condition. It is very easy to use. It has many features (both EI and CI). It is a good price for the type of instrument that you receive. Overall, a very good product."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Application Area:VOCs in cigarette smoke
"This system allows me to sample hundreds of cigarette samples with little downtime. The system is set up for expandability to increase the number of analyses I can do. Agilent is very easy to work with and has fast response times for problems I can't figure out on my own. I would recommend this system and the 7890 GC to any analyst that wants a robust, easy to use GC system."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2011
Organization: NJMC
Application Area:Environmental
"I've been using this instrument since 2005, it is very reliable and stable for the analysis of environmental samples. The only issue I had was with benzene, it gave a wrong calibration in between 10 to 250 ppb range of concentration."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics Inc
Application Area:POLYMER ANALYSIS
"It is a very good instrument; we have had it for over 20 years. It is reliable and user friendly. Our main use for this instrument is helping us with identification."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: East Stroudsburg University
Application Area:Academia
"The Agilent 6890 GC/MS system has an intuitive user interface that makes it easy to setup and produces great results every time."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2010
Organization: Chem-Trend Inc
Application Area:Organic Chemicals
"This is our second GC-MS from Agilent. It has held up well with little problems. It has much higher sensitivity than the previous model but just as robust. We also use it with a pyrolysis unit from Quantum which we find useful but rather difficult to maintain and we're not as impressed as with our old Pyro Probe."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: Wilmington College
Application Area:College
"This GC product works very well for my purpose and I would recommend this to other laboratories as well. Good value for money."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2004
Organization: PRO.MED.CS Praha a.s.
"We have had the system for 10 years and it is still working without problems."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2012
Organization: Forschungsgebiet Technologie der Energierohstoffe
Application Area:Gas analysis
"The instrument has many applications and is one of the best GC/GC-MS systems, compatible with many columns. However repair service is expensive and there are no free updates and only a small range of free after sales service."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2012
Organization: IUPUI
Application Area:Tobacco
"Excellent ease of use and integration with various autosamplers. Chemstation works great and is great to use with quantitation. We do sometimes get random unknown errors which stop sequences from running."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2010
Organization: Korea Institute of Petroleum Management
Application Area:Gasoline Analysis
"Very easy to use in lab. Total gasoline component analyzer."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2012
Organization: Novelis
Application Area:Simulated distillation
"Chemstation software is well designed, easy to use, and can be used across platforms (LC etc). User maintenance is simple and modular systems can be shipped for repair. Response is usually rapid. Phone support available through a single number."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2012
Organization: Cooper Power Systems
"Excellent reliability, software very easy to use/master. Easy to work on and reconfigure."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2010
Organization: Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Québec
Application Area:Analysis of oils
"Easy to operate, I would recommend it for headspace and/or pyrolis sample introduction. Software is easy, intuitive and there are good data treatment options, it is AMDIS compatible. Very good customer support, I would recommend a service contract."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2011
Organization: ADPEN labs
Application Area:Analysis for Pesticides
"Trouble free operation with little maintenance required. The software is user friendly and the manual is useful for troubleshooting."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2010
Organization: Takasago International Corporation, USA
Application Area:Flavors and food analysis
"Very easy to use with no detailed/complex instructions. Service sometimes takes a while for personnel/maintenance to reply to questions (3-5 days). Sometimes there is a problem with syringe error (getting stuck) or bad communication of software (Chemstation) with MSD."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2012
Organization: Eli Lilly
Application Area:Trace level chemical analysis
"Gives good, clear results, quickly with good selectivity."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2010
Organization: Lyondellbasell.com
Application Area:Refining
"GC/MS system is very user-friendly. Service and installation was timely and informatiive. Software upgrades (Chemstation) with library are well done and up to date."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2010
Organization: U.S. Navy
Application Area:Forensics
"Service varies by region and by the quality of the rep. At the moment we have a good rep so service is good."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2010
Organization: Mott Community College
Application Area:Environmental analysis
"Reliable and easy to use. Software has some limitations in transferring data to other Windows applications. Easily replaceable parts, useful for a fast GC. Software/hardware adaptable to many column configurations."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2010
Organization: Mott Community College
Application Area:Environmental analysis
"Reliable and easy to use. Software has some limitations in transferring data to other Windows applications. Easily replaceable parts, useful for a fast GC. Software/hardware adaptable to many column configurations."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2010
Organization: Liggett Group LLC
Application Area:Tobacco and smoke analysis
"Agilent provides the highest quality instruments in the industry and has superior customer service. However, in my opinion the Agilent software is antiquated and needs improvement."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2004
Organization: Firmenich, Inc.
"A workhorse GC that is reliable, accurate and precise. It is easy to use and maintain."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2010
Organization: Catawba College
"High reproducibility and very durable. Software is very user friendly."
Status:
Advanced ReviewerMember since: 2009
Organization: Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene, Maryland
"Reliable, user friendly software. Good, friendly tech support."
Status:
Expert ReviewerMember since: 2006
Organization: University of Hohenheim
"Software is too complex and not easy in handling, hardware works perfect."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2009
Organization: COLCAFE
"Software is very easy to use, as is the management of the data systems."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2011
Organization: PPG INDUSTRIES
"this instrument is easy to use in comparison to previously used models."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2011
Organization: Shealy Environmental Services
"An excellent system- very few problems."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2011
Organization: LEVYTECH/Envantage
"very easy to use."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2011
Organization: clemson university
"Very good."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2006
Organization: The Hartford
"Terrific workhorse instrument- after sales service can be spotty without service contract- technical support by phone is very good. Agilent pricing for single instrument sales is non-competitive, even for the better instrument."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2011
Organization: Saint Marks Powder
"very easy to use, maintain, long lasting and dependable."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2011
Organization: Altria
"Robust system."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2011
Organization: Lexmark International, Inc.
"There is currently a glitch in the software, but Agilent is working to fix it."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2011
Organization: Liggett Group LLC
"Easy to use!"
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2011
Organization: US Army - PHC
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2011
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"Training on equipment and ease of contact superb."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2011
Organization: Altria
"Robust system."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2011
Organization: Vertellus Specialties
"They are reliable instruments that are easy to repair. They work well on Perkin Elmer's TotalChrom."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2011
Organization: Eli Lilly and Company
"Very good instrument, but poor support."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2009
Organization: PFIZER
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2009
Organization: HOSPIRA
"It works well."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2009
Organization: ABBOTT LABORATORIES
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2009
Organization: ENVIRONMENT CANADA
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2009
Organization: MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
"A good work-horse instrument."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2009
Organization: ESSTECH, INC
"A great product. A great improvement from the 5890 GC."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2009
Organization: METSS CORPORATION
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2009
Organization: JACOBS/JACOBS DUGWAY
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2009
Organization: METSS
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2009
Organization: DSM Functional Materials
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2008
Organization: EXXONMOBIL CHEMICAL CO
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2007
Organization: Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices
"Easy to use, very good software."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2007
Organization: Nalco company
"Difficult to obtain support at initial installation. Software quirks."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2006
Organization: Alberta Research Council
Status:
Advanced ReviewerMember since: 2007
Organization: PPG Industries
"A very veratile instrument."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2007
Organization: Clariant Corp
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2003
Organization: I P Callison & Sons
"It could be more user-friendly."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2004
Organization: ShinEtsu Silicones of America
"Very easy to use, although physical access to columns is somewhat limited. Agilent technical support definitely needs improvement."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2003
Organization: Maybridge Chemicals
"No problems in routine use, no after-sales concerns, very reliable. Higher maximum split flows would be useful."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2004
Organization: Agan Chemicals Ltd Israel
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2004
Organization: Broadspire
"After changing to Agilent from HP, poor customer service"
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2004
Organization: Michigan State University
"Great"
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2004
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
"I use it every day and never have any problems"
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2004
Organization: Canadian Food Inspection Agency
"Very Good"
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2004
Organization: Woods Hole Oceanogr. Institution
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2004
Organization: Food Safety and Toxicology Center
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2003
Organization: Maybridge Chemicals
"Only a few minor gripes about design eg access for column and injector nuts. No problems with operation or reliability, solid workhorse, no problems with technical support (in UK)"
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2003
Organization: Northrop Grumman Newport News
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2003
Organization: State University Of New York
"Great GC easy to use and full of features, but the technical support is hideous!"
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2003
Organization: Levytech
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2003
Organization: I P Callison & Sons
"I would like to see a change in Inlet Nut capability."