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Want to take advantage of high aluminum prices? Here's what you need to know
Want to take advantage of high aluminum prices? Here's what you need to know about how to get that upgrade.
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Grading aluminum with Scrap University and SciAps X-550
Brad Rudover, one of the founders of Scrap University, shared some helpful hints for grading aluminum, one of the many training sessions offered at Scrap University's Certified Scrap Metal Professional training course. The program follows ISRI specifications to train new hires and create a full-scope understanding of commodities to support better decisions by all operators.
OneBox for Scrap
The "sort everything" package! Combines world's leading XRF metals sorter with breakthrough LIBS testing in argon or air. Go faster, and get those upgrades. And great customer service. We now have a One Box for your needs and your price point.
PMI User's Guide: Pro Tips to Improve Your Performance
Paul Lawrence of PMI Concepts has been performing PMI work, and training and certifying inspectors, for over 10 years. Here, he offers some key tips to improve your performance and get the most out of your instrument.
SciAps premium XRF passes 275 lbs. Oops Test
Some companies do drop tests on their analyzers. We just so happened to discover an "oops test" with ours. How many analyzers do you know would continue working after a 275 lb. weight dropped on it? Only the SciAps X-550 is this durable!
Breakthrough performance for scrap sorting
Many of the people who created SciAps were the founders and employees at Niton and InnovX (now Thermo Fisher Scientific and Olympus). Most people don't know that we've been in the business of handheld sorting from the beginning. In fact, we helped to develop the world’s first handheld XRF in the mid 1990s, and then right after 9/11, we developed the world’s first XRF gun with an X-ray tube instead of a radioactive source.
Recycling platinum group metals in catalytic converters
The platinum group metals (Pt, Pd, and Rh) found in catalytic converters are a growing market for recycling facilities. Accurate identification is essential, and these highly sought-after metals are even more valuable when the time it takes to analyze them is completed in seconds.
The best handheld XRF for the job
What’s the difference between the premium X-550 and the workhorse X-505 models? The answer is simple: Speed on low atomic number elements such as Mg, Al, Si, P and S.
The World’s First Handheld for Key Element Carbon
The SciAps Z is the world’s only handheld analyzer that measures carbon across every use: finding total organic carbon (TOC) in soils, identifying preg-robbing potential in gold mining, and establishing carbon and carbon equivalents in alloys, particularly for L-grade stainless steel for pharma operations.
The Periodic Table – Measured with a Handheld
Measure virtually every element, in almost any material, with a handheld analyzer. That’s the power of the SciAps Z handheld LIBS system.
Kripke Guarantees Aluminum Shipments with SciAps LIBS
Kripke now utilizes the SciAps handheld LIBS analyzer to certify that aluminum products meet chemistry specifications critical for fine grade sorting.
X-505 Handheld XRF: The Latest Breakthrough from SciAps
SciAps announces the release of the X-505—the second addition to its new product line featuring the smallest, lightest weight handheld X-ray analyzers made and addressing the specific needs of NDT/PMI, scrap, mining, environmental, and general analytical industries.
SciAps XRF and LIBS Serving Every Industry
Analyzers for every application in every industry.
SciAps innovation featured in Recycling Today Global
SciAps CEO Don Sackett spoke with Recycling Today Global on innovations and trends in handheld metal sorting technology, including the increasing interest in using LIBS analyzers to measure what he calls contaminant elements, including lithium in aluminum scrap and carbon content in steel.
Aluminum Sorting with X-ray or LIBS? SciAps has the answers
HH XRF is the better choice for most aluminum alloys. HH LIBS to confirm presence of Li in Al alloys and Be in copper alloys.