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Industry developments, conference coverage, and notable events in chemistry and analytical instrumentation.
The first half of 2026 delivered mixed vendor earnings, an unusually dense regulatory calendar, and modest conference energy on the process-analytics floor. Here is what moved the needle.
Recap of process analytical talks, awards and sessions from PITTCON 2026 in San Antonio and the analytica conference 2026 in Munich, with verified program details from both organizers.
Six recent peer-reviewed PAT papers worth a read: lean chemometrics for spectroscopic models, simpler bioprocess Raman regressions, at-line terahertz for crystallinity, and PAT-with-machine-learning past the bioreactor.
March-May 2026 in ACS Analytical Chemistry: three threads for process analytics - close-focus Raman probes for turbid streams, deep-learning chemometrics, and open-source spectroscopy tooling.
Twenty years after the first FDA continuous manufacturing approval, the technology is no longer experimental - but adoption is uneven, and the bottlenecks are now organizational, not technical.
analytica 2026 closed in Munich with 35,000 visitors and 1,135 exhibitors. AI and automation drew the loudest applause; the process analytics floor was quieter than the lab side.
Twenty years of guidance documents - 2004 FDA PAT guidance, ICH Q8 through Q14, ASTM E2363 - turned a fragmented vocabulary into a working framework. A reading guide.