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.
- Field notes: synthesis pieces from conversations with practitioners. Composite observations, clearly labelled, no fabricated quotes.
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.
Contributors
Articles published under Spectrane Editorial are produced by the editorial desk collectively, typically for methodology pieces and comparative reviews. Articles under a named byline are produced by the contributors listed below, who write under their own authority and are accountable for their pieces.
- Dr. Friederike Hentschel — Contributing Editor, Chemometrics & Regulation · Heidelberg, Germany
- Jeroen van der Linden — Contributing Editor, Process Engineering · Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Marcus Whitfield — Contributing Editor, Pharmaceutical PAT · Boston, USA
- Saskia de Vries — Contributing Writer, Biopharmaceuticals & Open-Source Tools · Leiden, Netherlands
- Zbigniew Zamysłowski — Contributing Editor, Industrial Automation & Process Engineering · Poland
Contact
- Editorial: editorial@spectrane.com
- Corrections: corrections@spectrane.com
- Tip line: tips@spectrane.com