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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.

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.

Sciaps visits The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch

A few months back, Dave Day received a phone call about a mystery happening in a remote part of Utah. As SciAps chief technology officer, he’s a curious guy, so he couldn’t pass up the opportunity of being part of a UFO investigation. Dave got on a plane, bringing the industry-leading X-550 handheld XRF with him so that the investigative team could analyze several mysterious pieces of material found there.

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.

SciAps X-5 for Precious Metals

SciAps, Inc., is pleased to release the newest handheld XRF analyzer, SciAps X-5, optimized for non-destructive testing of gold and silver materials and other precious metals.

SciAps XRF now pairs with GERDA for automated sampling

SciAps, Inc., is pleased to announce that its popular handheld XRF analyzer is now available in a handleless version to be used in-line with the GERDA automated table sampler for portable and handheld analytical instruments. The new in-line analyzer is easy to mount and has more ruggedized connectors that are perfectly suited for pairing with an industrial system like GERDA.

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.

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.

One big, happy scrap family

Why CSi? Carbon made easy for XRF users

Z-901 CSi, a dedicated carbon + silicon analyzer for low cost of entry. Until recently, portable testing required users to wear big backpacks with a cord and a probe as well as bring a bulky OES instrument with a huge argon tank into ditches or up towers to analyze their alloys. Companies were forced to buy an $80,000 instrument, more often than not, simply to measure the critical element carbon.

What's a little heatwave?

The SciAps X-555 Environmental analyzer is designed to work in tough conditions, even hot days in the sun. When the competition’s XRF analyzer is in the sun for hours, it gets too hot for accuracy. Then you’re looking for shade to cool it down. Not the case with SciAps X-555. You can work out in the sun all day long, and it never needs a break. The X-555 features the industry’s only 55 kV X-ray tube for best limits of detection on Cd, Ba, Sb, Sn, Ag and rare earth metals.

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.