Non-Ferrous Metals

The non-ferrous industries deal with a wide range of material types in the production of alloys based on metals such as copper, nickel, lead or zinc. Input raw materials range from the pure and alloying metals to (very important) scrap. But also various by-products like slags need to be analyzed; completing an extremely varied spectrum of materials to be analyzed in the non-ferrous industry.

Aluminium and copper are widely used in high electrical conductibility applications where the presence of some elements at even a trace level can give rise to unacceptable high-power losses in electrical transmission lines. For aluminium, an added concern is the fact that the anodizing characteristics of the metal are strongly influenced by the presence of just a few mg/kg of certain elements. Thus for both, copper and aluminium, the most relevant analytical data concern is the detection limits achievable with a spectrometer.

PANalytical solutions

The unsurpassed sensitivity, reproducibility, stability and flexibility of Axios^mAX-Metals makes it possible to achieve these low limits of detection. Where accurate and fast results are needed the Axios FAST is ideally suited, combined with an optical emission spectrometer in TEAMworks it is the ultimate analysis tool.

The PANalytical Charge Correction software package is the perfect assistant for improving product quality while optimizing cost of production.