About Spectrane

Spectrane covers the instruments, methods, and people that move chemistry from the laboratory onto the line. We write for engineers and scientists who deploy process analytical technology (PAT) — the people who choose between Raman, NIR, FTIR, mass spectrometry, and chromatography, and who answer for the result on the next batch.

What we publish

• News: developments from instrument vendors, regulatory updates, conference coverage, and notable academic publications. Sourced to primary literature or vendor disclosures.
• Explainers: evergreen technical primers on methods, instrumentation, and data analysis. Written to be useful to a process engineer who has just been handed an analyzer.
• Buyer's guides: comparative analyses of analyzers, software, and services. Methodology is published with every guide. We do not accept payment for placement.
• Interviews: conversations with practitioners and academic researchers.

Editorial standards

Spectrane follows the practices of trade journalism: every factual claim is sourced; every comparison discloses its criteria; corrections are issued promptly and noted in the article. Our full editorial policy covers sourcing, conflicts of interest, and the corrections process.

Funding and independence

Spectrane is industry-funded. Funders do not set editorial direction, do not see articles before publication, and have no veto over coverage. The named editor on each article is accountable for the content. Where a funder is mentioned in an article — favorably or otherwise — the funding relationship is disclosed in that article, not buried on a separate page.

Editor

The named editor for Spectrane is currently being appointed. Until then, articles are published under the byline Spectrane Editorial with each piece reviewed by a domain expert before publication.

Contact

• Editorial: [email protected]
• Corrections: [email protected]
• Tip line: [email protected]