Atomic Spectroscopy

Company Announcements

Quantitech was named the exclusive distributor for Teledyne Leeman Labs in Ireland.

CETAC Technologies partnered with Scientex in May to enhance its presence in the South Central US.

CETAC Technologies appointed Qmx Laboratories to represent its analytical products in the UK and Ireland.

In June, Innov-X Systems received a $4.5 million investment, led by Massachusetts Capital Resource Company.

Thermo Fisher Scientific named Portable Analytical Solutions as the distributor of its Niton XRF analyzer in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea.

Product Introductions

PANalytical released the Omnian standardless analysis package, a new module for its SuperQ software for use with the Axios sequential XRF spectrometer.

CETAC Technologies released the Marin-5 Enhanced Nebulizer System, a cost-effective solution for analyte signal enhancement for liquid sample introduction with inductively coupled plasma (ICP)–optical emission spectroscopy (OES) and ICP-MS.

CETAC launched the ASX-7000 series and the ASX-8000 autosampler platforms for OEM applications.

Bruker AXS introduced the S1 SORTER, an affordable, handheld XRF alloy analyzer.

Bruker AXS released the S1 TURBO handheld XRF system with second-generation silicon drift detector (SDD).

Innov-X Systems introduced the Omega Xpress XRF analysis for high-speed metal sorting.

SPECTRO Analytical Instruments launched the third-generation SPECTRO MIDEX micro XRF spectrometer, which combines the formerly separate MIDEX and MIDEX M versions and utilizes a more powerful SDD.

SPECTRO released Smart Analyzer 4.0 for its ICP-OES spectrometers.

SPECTRO introduced the fifth-generation SPECTROMAXx stationary metal analyzer, featuring an argon-saving module and a package of methods and adapters for small-sample analysis.

In April, PerkinElmer launched the SMS 100 mercury analyzer, which employs thermal decomposition, gold amalgamation and cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry.

Anton Paar GmbH introduced the SAXSess mc2 small-angle X-ray scattering system for nanostructure analysis.

Sales/Orders of Note

SPECTRO Analytical Instruments announced in May that approximately 3,500 SPECTROMAXx stationary metal analyzers have been sold since the product’s introduction at the beginning of 2005.

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