Analyzer is ideal for checking finished-goods inventories to meet new Federal lead regulations
EAST GREENBUSH, NY: Today XOS, Inc. announces that it has reached a distribution and technical support agreement with Skyray Instruments for XOS’ HDX 1000 Lead Analyzer, in China. Skyray is China’s leading analytical instrument manufacturer and maintains an extensive sales and service capability in its home market providing critical elemental-analysis solutions to a broad range of industries.
The HDX 1000 analyzer utilizes XOS’ HD XRF technology for measuring lead and other toxic elements in children’s products in both their coatings and base materials. The analyzer can reliably quantify the lead content in painted surfaces at low levels, even below the 40 ppm lead level recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Recent advances in XOS’ x-ray optics enable the HDX 1000 Analyzer to simultaneously report the lead level in the paint separately from the concentration in the base material. The HDX 1000 analyzer unites the speed and ease-of-use of conventional XRF analyzers with the precision and accuracy of chemical techniques. The HDX 1000 is ready to meet industry needs for both screening and certification to new federally mandated lead levels effective beginning February 2009.
The introduction of this new HD XRF platform equips industry and government agencies responsible for ensuring product safety with a truly unprecedented balance of speed, precision, and ease-of-use. Alternative chemical analytical techniques to measure trace levels of lead require careful scraping of surface paint and then digesting it in an acid at elevated temperature, having the liquid sample analyzed by an inductively coupled plasma analyzer. Portable “handheld” XRF, while faster and non-destructive, will not reliably detect the low lead levels in painted surfaces as required by new legislation. Measurements made using the HDX 1000 are by nature non-destructive and require no sample preparation, avoiding paint removal or digestion steps that take valuable time, destroy the merchandise being tested, and degrade the audit trail. The HDX 1000 also uses proprietary optics to improve lead detection while separating the lead levels of the coating and base material.
The HDX 1000 uses XOS’s recently developed High Definition X-Ray Fluorescence (HD XRF) technique to measure lead and other toxic metals in children’s products. This new analyzer represents the next-generation in rapid non-destructive analysis of trace lead levels in paint on children’s products. The HDX 1000 is introduced in response to the lower lead limits mandated by the US Congress in August 2008 as a part of the Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). Demonstrations of the analyzer are currently taking place in the United States and China.
“The China market for the HD XRF analytical technology is extensive and users demand expert local support. Our customers in China are now assured of a state-of-the-art analytical solution backed up by an extensive sales and technical support organization in China.” says Berry Beumer, VP of Sales and Marketing at XOS.
“XOS envisions significant growth of its x-ray analyzer business in China and I am excited about this relationship with Skyray Instruments as a key distribution partner”, comments David Gibson, President of XOS, “This collaboration enables both companies to expand their reach and offer users in China real-world analytical solutions with exceptional and trusted technical support.”
XOS has experience in solving challenging trace-element measurement problems. When the EPA made a bold move to radically reduce the allowable level of sulfur in diesel fuel (by 97%), it was a breakthrough XOS technique that allowed the petroleum industry to cost effectively and reliably meet the new standard with the SINDIE-7039? analyzer.
About XOS:
Founded in 1990, XOS Inc. is a leading manufacturer of x-ray optics for laboratory equipment and application specific x-ray analyzers. Advanced x-ray optics increase the sensitivity of the analyzer dramatically, while simultaneously decreasing the measurement time, increasing precision, and decreasing the size and cost of analytical equipment. XOS designs and manufactures elemental composition analyzers for the measurement of, for instance, sulfur and chlorine in petroleum products. XOS has established direct OEM sales, distribution and service channels throughout the world.
About Skyray:
Skyray Instrument Inc. was established in 1990, specializing in X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (XRFS) research, development, production and sales. Besides Skyrays portable and bench-top XRF instruments, the company offers a broad line of analytical instruments such as Atomic Absorption and Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometers. Skyrays analytical solutions are highly acclaimed by users all over the world as powerful tools in quality control, monitoring and measurement, based on their distinct characteristics of speed, accuracy, and ease-of-use. Skyrays instruments are utilized for a wide range of applications across many industries including electronics, ecological research, metallurgy, childrens products, jewelry, geological exploration, mining industry, construction materials, archeology, merchandise inspection, electroplating, steel, petrochemical, ceramics, environmental protection, precious metals and many more.
XOS Contact:
Berry Beumer
+1 518-880-1501
info@xos.com
www.xos.com