New corporate facility in Ronkonkoma, New York In March 2018, Elementar will open a new corporate facility in Ronkonkoma, New York. The relocation to Ronkonkoma marks a new chapter in the history of Elementar Americas which started 20 years ago in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Serving as the headquarters for the Americas business, the building […]

New Version of LaserNet Particle Analyzer Features Wide-Ranging Particle Counting and New Ferrous Monitoring Capabilities (Chelmsford, MA) The new Version 7 of the LaserNet 200 Comprehensive Particle Analyzer Series from Spectro Scientific provides extensive analysis of particles in lubricating and hydraulic fluids. Compared to earlier releases, the new Series increases particle counting range up to 10 million particles/ml […]

KENNEWICK, Washington – Bruker celebrated the 100th customer of its newly introduced TRACER 5i Handheld X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) analyzer for advanced applications and research. Soon after launch, Pennsylvania State University purchased Bruker’s new TRACER 5i. The Roots Lab at the College of Agricultural Sciences Department of Plant Science won a $7,000,000 ARPA-E Award from the Department of Energy for DEEPER: An […]

NEW YORK and BILLERICA, Mass. — The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) and Bruker Corporation are pleased to announce a 10-year partnership to advance novel analytical technologies and methods in the field of cultural heritage science even further.  This partnership builds upon and expands a long history of collaboration that has yielded considerable progress and results: among them, […]

The DM6 M LIBS 2-in-1 microscope comes with integrated chemical analysis The new DM6 M LIBS microscope for materials analysis from Leica Microsystems allows you to analyze the 2 main characteristics of a material in 1 work step, i.e., microstructure and composition. The microscope has an integrated laser spectroscopy (LIBS) function and delivers the chemical composition of […]

Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science has launched LAB-X5000, the fastest, easiest to use and most versatile model in the 45-year history of the LAB-X.  LAB-X5000 is a compact benchtop EDXRF (energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence) analyser with a streamlined user interface and the shortest measurement start sequence on the market, designed to deliver high sample throughput with […]

ALBULA is a free and versatile viewer and manipulation software for images taken with DECTRIS detectors. Over the years, ALBULA has become an integral part of the experience of using DECTRIS detectors and has spread widely. This was facilitated by the availability of a Python application programming interface (API). With the latest version of ALBULA, […]

Jena – The Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, BAM) and Analytik Jena AG have agreed to cooperate extensively in the research and development of optical spectrometry in the area of elemental analysis. The two parties signed a corresponding cooperation agreement last week in Berlin. The focus of the two […]

Shoreview, Minnesota TSI® Inc. announces the release of the ChemLine™ In-Line Metals Analyzer. As of this writing, a patent is pending for the ChemLine sensor, which uses Laser Induction Breakdown Spectroscopy or LIBS technology for high demand industrial environments where speed and accuracy are required. The ChemLine has been proven to sort metals scrap streams […]

Vienna, Austria – Teledyne CETAC Technologies, Omaha, NE, USA, developer and marketer of specialist sample introduction systems for atomic spectroscopy, and TOFWERK AG, Thun, Switzerland, developer of time-of-flight mass spectrometers, are pleased to announce the installation of an Analyte Excite excimer laser ablation system with HelEx II sample chamber and ARIS rapid aerosol introduction system coupled […]