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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.
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.
Which Analyzer Is Best for Your Scrapyard?
A practical guide to choosing the right analyzer for your scrapyard. Compare entry-level, mid-range, and premium XRF options—and learn when LIBS makes sense for aluminum and alloy sorting.
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.
Introducing the SciAps Z-70 LIBS Analyzer
SciAps has designed an economical, easy to use material ID LIBS that fits the needs of the market. The Z-70 utilizes many of the hardware advantages of SciAps high-end instruments in a rugged design. The outcome is a material ID LIBS that doesn’t sacrifice on performance.
Kripke v PADNOS: MIS NASCAR Xfinity Series Recap
Fantastic weekend at Michigan International Speedway! Patrick Emerling in car #35 was sponsored by PADNOS and finished 34th. Kyle Sieg, our last-minute replacement driver in car #28 was sponsored by Kripke and finished 19th in the Xfinity Series race August 5th. Full recap.
Q&A with a SciAps Customer
Jonathan Bubier from Joseph Freedman Co spoke with us about being A SciAps customer: "SciAps has definitely been the best partner that we have found. We really enjoy the service that we get from you guys."
SciAps is giving away alloy analyzers at ISRI golf outings
SciAps is giving away premier X-550 XRF alloy analyzers! Don't miss your chance at a SciAps-sponsored golf event. At designated events, score a hole-in-one, and win a brand new SciAps X-ray gun. Or get closest-to-the-pin, and win 4 pit passes to a NASCAR Xfinity Series race.
Join us at ISRI 2023
Are you ready to bid, race, and win with SciAps at ISRI 2023? Our NASCAR racing team and our approach to innovation are the same — go fast and take chances! SciAps is proud to support ISRI 2023 for our 10-year anniversary!
X-505 drops 5 feet from forklift - still works!
Work with confidence. With SciAps, you get a durable analyzer that passes drop tests with ease and can be repaired to good-as-new condition for a fraction of the cost.
Work with confidence
When accidents happen, we want our customers to get back to work as soon as possible. SciAps analyzers are so durable, they've even finished a job when they've been dropped or smashed.
Invite CJ to demo more profitable aluminum sorting for you
What do you get when CJ McLaughlin stops by your scrapyard? The opportunity to demo the fastest, toughest XRF ever, discover great features, and meet our (almost) celebrity NASCAR driver rep. Maybe you can get him to tell you what really happens in the pits... See for yourself how SciAps can improve the functionality of your scrapyard.
Chemistry is essential in a scrapyard
At ISRI this year, our good friend from Scrap University and Detroit Scrap Consulting Services Brad Rudover moderated a panel of speakers that discussed how current metals identification directly impacts profitability and the scrap business on a daily basis.