Company Announcements

Under a mutual distribution agreement signed in July, Rigaku Reagents will promote and sell MiTeGen’s crystallization, crystal harvesting, data collection and other product lines worldwide, and MiTeGen will promote and sell Rigaku’s Wizard product lines of matrix screens and other products in the US.

In August, Oxford Instruments appointed Hillsborough General Trading as a distributor for the Middle East of its handheld MET8000 range of XRF analyzers.

DECTRIS will supply its hybrid photon counting pixel detectors to Bruker AXS’s XRD business.

Product Introductions

Elementar introduced the inductar series: the CS cube for carbon and sulfur analysis; the OHN cube for simultaneous analysis of oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen; and the EL cube for analysis of carbon, sulfur, oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen.

Applied Rigaku Technologies launched in June the NEX DE direct excitation ED-XRF elemental analyzer for industrial use in the field, plant or lab.

In July, Rigaku Analytical Devices released the Katana handheld LIBS analyzer for alloy analysis.

In September, Rigaku launched the NANOHUNTER II benchtop total reflection XRF spectrometer, which can measure K alpha with high signal-to-noise ratios and clearly defined peaks when measuring cadmium.

In June, Torontech introduced the Atomic Absorption Spectrometer 2000 with a flame atomizer and optional graphite furnace atomizer.

SPECTRO Analytical Instruments released in June the new portable SPECTROSCOUT XRF spectrometer for at-line elemental analysis.

SPECTRO Analytical Instruments introduced two SPECTROLAB arc/spark optical emission spectrometers for metal analysis: the hybrid SPECTROLAB, which combines analog PMT detectors with CCD technology, and the all-CCD SPECTROLAB.

In July, Oxford Instruments launched the mPulse+ handheld LIBS metals analyzer for aluminum sorting.

In August, SciAps released the updated Z Series handheld LIBS analyzer, featuring a new laser that delivers 5–6 mJ pulses at a 20 Hz rep rate with nanosecond pulse duration.

In September, Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the Thermo Scientific Niton XL5 analyzer, which weighs 1.3 kg and features a new electronic processor.

Sales/Orders of Note

SPECTRO Analytical Instruments announced in September the shipment of its 40,000th spectrometer. The SPECTRO ARCOS ICP-OES system was delivered to SGS Germany.