Bruker Corp., headquartered in Billerica, Mass., has opened its expanded multitechnology applications and demonstration laboratory, which is colocated with the company's R&D and manufacturing facility for X-ray analysis systems in Yokohama, Japan. The 3000 square-meter facility is the single largest combined Bruker applications laboratory in the world, showcasing life science, materials research and industrial systems including NMR, research MRI, EPR, MALDI-TOF/TOF, ESI-ITMS and ESI-Qq-TOF mass spectrometry, X-ray diffraction and crystallography, x-ray fluorescence (XRF), EDS accessories for SEM, FT-IR and thermal analysis systems. The company says that the laboratory will enable scientists from Japan and Asia to investigate a wide range of applications on the systems, and will provide them with training, demonstrations and advice from application scientists.