New Technology

During the past year we have made several substantial capital improvements to ensure that we can continue to offer quick, cost effective and quality services.  The first improvement was the replacement of our dated Atomic Absorption instrument with a newer model.  This instrument serves two roles as it allows us to reach lower detection limits via hydride methodology and serves as a primary backup for our ICP should it need repair or routine maintenance.  Secondarily, we have begun implementing time and temperature controlled digestion procedures with the purchase of digestion blocks.  This has further ensured repeatability of assays and increase sample throughput.

Wet chemical titrations have been the proven methods of choice when assaying the major elemental content of ores and inorganic chemicals.  We have developed a number of new Inductively Coupled Plasma spectrometric methods (ICP-OES) that provide the accuracy and precision of the classical wet chemical titration with lower costs and faster turnaround times.  We have maintained the ability to run the wet chemical titrations and continue to offer them to customers who require these methods.  We also utilize them as confirmatory tests to back up our ICP assays.