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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.
SciAps X-555: Don't sweat the field work
SciAps X-555 sets a new performance standard for handheld XRF. It weighs under 3 lbs. with battery, and it packs the industry’s most powerful X-ray tube for the best limits of detection on the EPA’s critical contaminants—especially for cadmium, silver, tin, antimony and barium, where the 55kV X-ray tube delivers the most benefit.
Vito Angona is new sales director of EMEA
Mr. Vito Angona will be taking the position of sales director, EMEA. Mr. Angona had previously joined the company in the role of DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) managing director. After the successful opening in Germany, Mr. Angona will now take on the overall sales leadership role for all of the EMEA territory.
Profile Builder with Opti-Cal
Adding SciAps Profile Builder software to your SciAps XRF and LIBS analyzers will, in essence, double your instrumentation. Take advantage of the ease and portability of handheld analyzers for your field work, then use those same analyzers in conjunction with Profile Builder software on your tablet or PC to gain powerful benchtop functionality for your lab work.
SciAps Test Station for lab, field, and field-lab
The XRF Test Station is designed for reliability, durability and safety, complete with interlocked lid for your protection and a super stable base to keep your samples positioned correctly regardless of what’s going on around you. Integrated fans to keep the analyzer cool even at the most extreme duty cycles and environments. For lab and field-lab environments.
CSi: Carbon and silicon in a handheld LIBS
The world’s first carbon-only handheld LIBS analyzer. SciAps CSi (measuring carbon + silicon) is a high-performance handheld instrument that measures carbon content in steels and L and H grade stainless. It's the economical companion for XRF users who need to add carbon data to their analysis.
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.
PMI Support and Consulting - From an Industry Expert
SciAps is proud to be the exclusive sponsor for PMI support and consulting time with Paul Lawrence of PMI Concepts.
X-550 falls 35 feet - and still testing!
XRF analyzer falls from 35-foot tower and still works!
X-550 for Geochemistry
The SciAps X-550 is the new premium handheld XRF for the geochemistry industry. Weighing only 2.8 lbs. with battery, it's the lightest, fastest and most powerful handheld XRF on the market today.
American biotech uses SciAps X-505 in the fight against Covid-19
Allied BioScience turned to SciAps when they needed the right handheld XRF analyzer to verify the quality of SurfaceWise2.
Carbon and PMI introduction video with Z-200C+ and X-550
LIBS demo on L-grade stainless steel & carbon steels
SciAps Partners with Allied BioScience in fight against COVID-19
Allied BioScience developed SurfaceWise2, the world’s first and only EPA-approved surface coating provides continuous protection against viruses and bacteria on surfaces, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The SciAps handheld XRF device (model X-505) is used to examine the amount of coating present on surfaces and to give clients confidence that the coating is still present and active.
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.
Quality NDT: Which handheld test is best?
Handheld XRF, spark OES, and handheld LIBS analyzers are all commonly used to determine fast, accurate, and reliable analysis. James Terrell of SciAps discusses each technology's differences and limitations, and provides a needs-based chart to help companies decide which analyzer is best for them.
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.