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News Release from: Thermo Fisher Scientific
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 August 2006
1000th metals analysis spectrometer
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Thermo Electron Corporation has announced the 1000th customer order of its ARL 4460 Optical Emission (OE) spectrometer for metal analysis in primary plants, foundries, forges and mini-mills.
Thermo Electron Corporation, world leader in analytical instrumentation, announces the 1000th customer order of its ARL 4460 Optical Emission (OE) spectrometer This vacuum spectrometer is recognized as the best performing instrument for metal analysis available on the market
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 1 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The ARL 4460 features two unique techniques, Thermo's patented Current Controlled Source (CCS) and Time Resolved Spectroscopy (TRS), establishing this innovative instrument as the benchmark for accurate and reliable metal analysis in primary plants, foundries, forges, mini-mills and casting mills.
The milestone order was received from Voest Alpine Industrieanlagebau (VAI).
VAI purchased the instrument for Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works, a very important steel plant based in Alchevsk, Ukraine, who are one of the metallurgical businesses of 'Industrial Union of Donbas' Corporation (IUD).
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Founded in 1956, VAI is an engineering company supporting steel applications by building complete plants, or providing machines for use in steel production, for example ladle furnaces, continuous casting machines and converters.
To date, VAI has completed more than 1800 projects in more than 80 countries worldwide.
Thermo's long-standing relationship with VAI has resulted in over 25 years of OE and X-ray instrument orders and approximately 45 units have been sold to them.
Launched in 1994, the ARL 4460 is continuously being improved.
The two latest additional techniques are the CCS and TRS.
These significantly reduce the analysis time to less than a minute and improve all analytical figures of merit in OE (detection limits, precision, accuracy, stability, etc).
Two further additions to Thermo's ARL 4460 are the on-line Spark-DAT option, allowing cleanliness statements and inclusion determinations and the 'CNO' option permitting the determination of the C, N and O elements in steel at their lowest levels.
Dan Shine, vice president of elemental analysis at Thermo, commented: "Our ARL 4460 OE spectrometer has proven to be a very valuable tool, designed to meet all metals analysis requirements from routine use to metals research and achieves superior analytical performance, even in the most demanding laboratory conditions.
Furthermore, each instrument is customized prior to delivery in order to meet specific needs.
Due to these unique characteristics, the ARL 4460 has encountered increasing success with customers regularly purchasing or upgrading to new models.
This 1000th order is clearly a testament of our customers' trust in the instrument's quality and reliability." * About elemental analysis - a leader in AA, ICP, ICP-MS, X-ray, Coulometry and OE spectrometers for fast, accurate analysis of liquids, solids and powders, Thermo's elemental analysis systems are used for process and quality control, environmental and hazardous materials monitoring, and R and D in the environmental, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, food and beverage, petrochemical, metal and geological markets.
Our acclaimed line of elemental analysis products includes mobile, desktop, laboratory and automation models.
* About Thermo Electron Corporation - Thermo Electron Corporation is the world leader in analytical instruments.
Our instrument solutions enable our customers to make the world a healthier, cleaner and safer place.
Thermo's Life and Laboratory Sciences segment provides analytical instruments, scientific equipment, services and software solutions for life science, drug discovery, clinical, environmental and industrial laboratories.
Thermo's Measurement and Control segment is dedicated to providing analytical instruments used in a variety of manufacturing processes and in-the-field applications, including those associated with safety and homeland security.
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