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Explore insights, applications, and stories from the field using handheld XRF, LIBS, VisNIR, and portable benchtop analyzers across scrap recycling, mining, geochemistry, forensics, and more.
Beyond the Spec Sheet: How to Read a HUD Performance Characteristic Sheet
Learn how to read a HUD Performance Characteristic Sheet (PCS), understand XRF accuracy, inconclusive results and test times, and choose a lead paint analyzer with confidence.
What Makes an Analyzer Truly Field Ready?
What makes an analyzer truly field ready? Explore the ruggedness, reliability, ease of use, and connectivity needed for demanding field applications.
Why Analyzer Data Shouldn't Live on a USB Stick
Analyzer data is too valuable to be trapped on USB drives and spreadsheets. Learn how connected workflows with SciAps Cloud+ automate data backup, improve visibility, simplify reporting, and turn analytical results into actionable business intelligence.
The Hidden Cost of Waiting
How much is waiting for lab results really costing your operation? Delayed laboratory analysis can lead to downtime, slower production, missed opportunities, and reduced profitability. In this article, we explore the hidden costs of waiting for analytical results and how portable technologies like SciAps XRF, LIBS, and reveNIR analyzers, combined with Cloud+ real-time data management, help organizations make faster decisions, streamline workflows, reduce laboratory dependence, and gain greater visibility into their operations.
Aircraft Engines Are Finding New Life with SciAps X-200
Ni Met Recycling is helping pioneer a new frontier in sustainability by dismantling and recycling aircraft engines—transforming a single engine into more than 100 valuable material streams. In this customer spotlight, Ashwin Ninan-Philip shares how the SciAps X-200 handheld XRF supports real-time alloy identification, accurate sorting, and blending decisions for titanium and high-nickel aerospace alloys, and why reliable service and support are critical in this demanding, emerging recycling industry.
Analyzing the USGS 2025 Draft List of Critical Minerals with SciAps PowerHouse X and Z-903
The USGS 2025 Draft Critical Minerals List underscores the growing importance of accurate, field-ready analysis. With SciAps PowerHouse X, Z-903 LIBS, and reveNIR, geologists and industry leaders can rapidly identify critical elements and minerals—helping secure resilient supply chains for the future.
Debunking the Misinformation: The Truth About Handheld Lead Paint Analyzers
A recent “field alert” has circulated misleading claims about tube-based XRF analyzers and their ability to meet HUD lead paint standards. This blog post breaks down the inaccuracies, exposes the use of fear-based marketing, and reinforces the credibility of HUD-compliant testing methods like those used by the SciAps X-550. From source strength to lab accreditation and city-specific rumors, we set the record straight with data, facts, and regulatory clarity.
SciAps Expands Portfolio with Legendary ASD Spectroradiometers
SciAps, a leader in portable analytical instruments, has taken over the renowned FieldSpec, TerraSpec, and LabSpec product lines from ASD. This acquisition expands SciAps' commitment to delivering cutting-edge spectral solutions across mining, remote sensing, and laboratory applications. Now integrated under the SciAps brand, these instruments—alongside the new reveNIR analyzer—offer enhanced mineral identification, geologic exploration, and field-portable analysis capabilities.
Simplify Analyzer Control with Fleet Management
Managing your analyzers just got easier with Fleet Management, a cloud-based solution that puts control at your fingertips. Monitor device performance, troubleshoot issues, and push updates in real-time—all from anywhere. Stay ahead of operations with seamless remote access to your entire fleet.
Innovating for Our Changing World
In the technology world, if you’re not innovating, you’re falling behind. While other scientific technology companies continue to sell the same instruments they developed 10-20 years ago, SciAps invests in innovation with a strong Research and Development team.
Testing Spices for Lead with SciAps XRF
In August 2023, SciAps X-550 Pb was used in a unique lead study. Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP), a non-profit, public charity that supports governments in implementing regulations and helps manufacturers shift to lead-free products, tested turmeric, chili, and pepper from Ethiopia for added lead.
Looking for lithium in all the wrong places?
Get rapid, in-field analysis with SciAps Z-9 Liquidator +Z-903 LIBS system SciAps is proud to announce the first portable LIBS-powered lithium brines analyzer, the Z-9 Liquidator. When combined with the Z-903 LIBS handheld analyzer, the Z-9 Liquidator test station provides fast and easy analysis of brines in the field, plant, or lab.
Residential lead paint consulting with SciAps
For surface-by-surface testing of painted components, there’s no better option to identify the amount of lead present in painted or sealed surfaces than SciAps X-550 Pb lead paint analyzer. Lead-paint consultants can now evaluate potential lead hazards, including lead-based paint, lead dust (coming spring 2023), lead in water, and/or lead in soil without the oversight and costs of radioactive isotopes.
Industry Driven: Heavy metals in NJ soils
Recently, Dr. Ashaki Rouff, an associate professor, and Suah Yekeh, a second year Ph.D. student, in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University, Newark investigated the soil in seven city parks for the presence of contaminants, including heavy metals, using SciAps X-200 XRF. What they learned will have them coming back this summer doubly equipped, using their newly purchased SciAps X-505 XRF and Z-903 LIBS analyzers.
Academic Loaner: Environmental soils in NJ parks with SciAps XRF
In Rutgers University, researchers used XRF to detect an exceedance of heavy metals in the soil of local parks.
How it works: SciAps X-550 Pb for residential lead paint
SciAps X-550 Pb eliminates the regulatory, safety, and financial burden associated with radioactive sources in residential lead paint testing, with a HUD-published EPA Performance Characteristic Sheet showing no inconclusive tests at 1.0, 0.7, and 0.5 mg/cm2.