KENNEWICK, Wash.– Bruker Corporation, a technology leader in hand-held, mobile and portable (HMP) metals and alloy analyzers, today introduces the new EOS 500 hand-held Laser Induced Breakdown Spectrometer (HH-LIBS). The EOS 500 is designed for high-speed analysis of Grade ID and chemistry in light element alloys containing Li, Mg, Al or Si. Speed, accuracy and […]

The Lab-at-Rig® technology that CSIRO has developed in partnership with Imdex and Olympus, under the Deep Exploration Technologies Cooperative Research Centre (DET CRC), enables chemistry and mineralogy of rocks found within a drill hole to be analysed within minutes of drilling. “Lab-at-Rig® is an important breakthrough for the industry because of the potentially massive cost […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. —— Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the winners of the 2016 Winter Conference Awards in Plasma Spectrochemistry. Selected by an independent awards committee, these industry leading scientists have made noteworthy contributions over time or through a single, significant breakthrough in the field of plasma spectrochemistry. […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Sue H. Rataj has been elected to the company’s board of directors, effective immediately. Rataj was chief executive of BP plc’s global petrochemicals business before retiring in April 2011. She was also a group vice president of BP and had held a series […]

Kleve, Germany —— SPECTRO Analytical Instruments, a leading manufacturer of advanced instruments for elemental analysis, has announced a major milestone — the shipment of its 40,000th spectrometer. The “milestone instrument,” a SPECTRO ARCOS state-of-the-art optical emission spectrometer with inductively coupled plasma (ICP-OES), was delivered to SGS Germany GmbH. The SGS-Group is a worldwide leader in […]

BUFFALO, NY — Rand Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: RAND) (“Rand”), a business development company that makes venture capital investments in companies with emerging product, service or technology concepts, announced that it recently invested $250,000 as part of a $4.3 million equity capital funding round in SciAps, Inc. (https://sciaps.com/). SciAps is the leading provider of handheld analytical […]

Specialists in CHN Microanalysis – Exeter Analytical are celebrating the 21st anniversary of opening their European headquarters in the UK. Started in 1994 by the present European Manager (Paul Hemming) – Exeter Analytical (UK) Ltd is today a leading supplier of CHN microanalysis instruments, consumables and supplies to universities and government research labs as well […]

Managers, operators and quality control personnel in the fabrication, positive material identification and scrap metal industries can now assess the chemical composition of metals with a new analyzer that is smaller and lighter than any x-ray fluorescence (XRF) alloy analyzer on the market today. The Thermo Scientific Niton XL5 analyzer is designed to provide results […]

KARLSRUHE, Germany and BADEN, Switzerland –– Bruker AXS and DECTRIS Ltd. today announced an agreement for the supply of Hybrid Photon Counting (HPC) pixel detectors for Bruker’s X-ray diffraction (XRD) business. “We have chosen DECTRIS as a supplier because of its high-performance, reliable, and proven HPC detector technology and high-volume production capacity”, says Frank Burgaezy, […]

Tokyo, Japan. X-ray scientific, analytical and industrial instrumentation manufacturer Rigaku Corporation, (3-9-12, Matsubara-cho, Akishima-shi, Tokyo 196-8666, JAPAN Tel: 042-545-8111; President: Hikaru Shimura) has announced the next generation Rigaku NANOHUNTER II benchtop total reflection X-ray fluorescence (TXRF) spectrometer that enables high-sensitivity ultra-trace elemental analysis, in liquids or on solid surfaces, to the parts-per-billion (ppb) level. Total […]