NITON analysers win design excellence award

Archiv – Thermo Electron Corporation has announced that its family of NITON X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysers has been awarded a Gold IDEA (Industrial Design Excellence Award) in the Medical & Scientific Products category. Thermo Electron Corporation has announced that its family of NITON X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysers has been awarded a Gold IDEA (Industrial Design Excellence Award) in the Medical & Scientific Products category. The IDEA awards are dedicated to fostering business and public understanding of the importance of industrial design excellence to the quality of life and the economy. The awards are co-sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and BusinessWeek magazine.
Thermo’s award-winning portable XRF analyser range was designed by Altitude Inc., a US-based strategic product development firm. The NITON portable XRF analysers are used worldwide in a variety of non-destructive testing applications, including RoHS and WEEE compliance, metal alloy sorting, positive material inspection, mineral exploration and mining, precious metals analysis, environmental risk assessment, and lead paint testing.
Altitude’€™s designers worked closely with Thermo engineers and scientists to develop a new generation of XRF analysers to maximise operator productivity. NITON’€™s XLi, XLp and XLt Series XRF analysers determine approximate sample chemistries and identify many types of samples in as little as one second. The XLi Series is the smallest and lightest XRF analyser in the world, according to Thermo.