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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.
Special offer: Free API training with SciAps One Box
SPECIAL OFFER: Now, get a free API training with purchase of SciAps One Box for PMI – identify every alloy you’ll ever need for your program or clients, and get a free training on us. Reach out today! Analytical Training Consultants is a preferred trainer for the American Petroleum Institute. As an added bonus, ATC uses SciAps instruments in their program. Get hands-on training and experience with the analyzers that the experts trust.
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.
New PMI One Box Options
Now SciAps offers attractive packages combining our award-winning LIBS carbon analyzer and our X-ray gun. With these packages, you can identify every alloy you'll ever need for your program or clients.
Analyze and grade carbon in small parts on-site with handheld LIBS
A comprehensive material verification program includes testing weld wire, round bar, small bore pipe, and bolting. SciAps LIBS analyzers are designed to optimize access to such parts, providing a comprehensive, on-site solution for QA programs.
One Box for Environmental
Introducing three new analyzers for in-field environmental testing. Get true portability with SciAps — handheld XRF and LIBS for all 8 RCRA and 13 EPA Priority Pollutant Metals, even beryllium, in seconds, and the world's only lead paint analysis with no radioactive isotopes or replacement costs and HUD PCS at 3 action levels.
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.
Press Release: SciAps XRF eliminates need for radioactive isotope in lead paint analysis
SciAps, Inc., is pleased to announce that the world’s only handheld XRF not using a radioactive isotope for residential lead paint detection has been accepted for use in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development “Guidelines for the Evaluation and Control of Lead-Based Paint Hazards in Housing,” 2012 Edition.
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.