Traditional slurry packaging has its drawbacks and better technology exists that can deliver uniform bed density and dramatic performance advances. That’s the primary benefit of Phenomenex’s Axia hardware and now it has a new 30 mm I.D. Kinetex core-shell five-micron column in Axia for preparative HPLC and SFC in pharmaceutical lab-scale purification. Also offered in a 21.2 mm I.D., the new 30-mm column enables increased sample loading and throughput. It delivers longer column lifetime, higher efficiencies, improved performance and high reproducibility, compared to conventionally packed columns for lab-scale preparative chromatography. Phenomenex Inc.