A new capability for this handheld XRF analyzer
This company announced a new capability — Light Metal Quick Sort — for its Niton XL5 Plus handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer (photo), enabling ultra-fast analysis of aluminum and magnesium alloy grades in under two seconds. This new mode, which can also identify high-value-alloy families of other light metals — including stainless steel, nickel, cobalt, copper and titanium — significantly reduces analysis times over traditional methods, offering a path to improved efficiency for scrap metal operations, the company says. The Niton XL5 Plus is the lightest, smallest and most powerful handheld XRF analyzer available for elemental determination in the field, offering non-destructive analysis of metals and alloys in seconds. The General Metals mode on the Niton XL5 Plus analyzer has been expanded to include an enhanced ability to detect low levels of nickel in low-alloy steels, along with a new mode for ultra-fast light-metals analysis. The new mode provides accurate analysis of Mg to concentrations as low as 0.5%. The product can aid metal recycling. — ThermoFisher Scientific, Tewksbury, Mass.