Axsun Technologies to Introduce Powerful New NIR Analyzers at EAS

BILLERICA, Massachusetts (Nov. 11, 2004) – Axsun Technologies, Inc., a leading manufacturer of micro-optoelectronic products that improve quality, performance, and productivity in a variety of industries, will demonstrate two new Axsun NIR Analyzers at the Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exposition, to be held at the Garden State Convention Center in Somerset, New Jersey, November 15 – 18, 2004.

Based on its award-winning NIR-APS (applications prototyping system), Axsun designed the new analyzers for methods development and easy conversion to the process environment. The NIR Analyzers have multiple communications options including wireless, USB, and RS232. Housed in a distinctive industrial-grade box, each analyzer supports direct-to-detector and fiber-to-detector sampling configurations. Semiconductor manufacturing techniques produce a uniform product, ensuring rapid calibration transfer from instrument to instrument.

“The Axsun NIR Analyzers we are introducing at EAS are optimized for liquid and gas-analysis in process-manufacturing applications that require analysis in the CH or OH spectral ranges,” said Petros Kotidis, Axsun’s vice president of marketing and business development. “Our goal is to help manufacturers in a wide range of industries realize dramatic improvements in productivity, throughput, yield, and quality. Unlike diode array systems, which compromise resolution, signal-to-noise, and other aspects of performance, our family of micro-spectrometers delivers highly accurate, reliable, and reproducible spectral output in a user-selectable spectral range. Comparable to a workhorse laboratory spectrometer, they are more reliable – based on technology qualified for 25-year lifetime – and portable, so they can be readily integrated into the process environment in a cost-effective way.”

Axsun will also feature its NIR Analyzer Accessory Kit at EAS, optimized for NIR-based methods development, so applications developers can quickly and easily run a wide range of liquid, gas, and transmissive-polymer-film samples. The kit features best-in-class laboratory sample interfaces, manufactured by Specac, a world leader in spectrometer accessories.

Symposia to Describe Breakthroughs in Micro-Spectrometry and Offer Process Application Examples

Richard Crocombe, Ph.D., the company’s director of marketing for optical micro-instrumentation, will present two EAS Technical Presentations, which will be held at the Doubletree Somerset Hotel adjacent to the Garden State Conference Center.

• On Tuesday, November 16, 2004, at 4 pm, Dr. Crocombe will present “NIR Analyses Using Targeted Range Miniature Spectrometers,” as part of the technical session, Diversity in NIR Applications, which begins at 2 pm.

• On Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2004, at 10:40 am, Dr. Crocombe will present “Micro-Optical Instrumentation for Industrial Process Spectroscopy,” as part of the technical session, Problem Solving with Spectroscopic Techniques, which begins at 9 am.

About Specac

Specac designs, manufactures, and supplies products to serve customers in a variety of markets requiring specialist acquisition of Infrared Molecular data in laboratories and process environments. Specac has over 33 years experience in sampling technology for FTIR spectroscopy, specialist infrared optical components, process systems for on-line analysis and specialist systems such as polarises and FIR spectrometers. Specac is part of the Smiths Group an International company listed on the London stock exchange in the top 100 UK companies with sales of £3billion, employing 16,000 people in some 50 different businesses located in the UK, USA, and Europe. Visit Specac

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