Overview
Our solutions support deeper process understanding, improved product quality, and reliable regulatory compliance from early research through commercial production. Used worldwide in laboratories and manufacturing environments, our technologies are built for reliability, data integrity, and ease of use in cGMP-driven settings. By providing accurate, real-time insights, we help customers make informed decisions that reduce risk and accelerate timelines.
Technology Summaries
X-Ray Sources
Our x-ray sources are deployed in a wide range of applications, for the testing, imaging, and inspection of items ranging from batteries, printed circuits boards and semi-conductor devices to animal fluoroscopy and dental prosthetics quality control. With short wavelengths and high energies required to penetrate through many different materials, they provide a non-destructive, easy-to-use, reliable technology, in the laboratory, in healthcare settings or on-line. Learn more.
Compounding & Extrusion
Advanced twin-screw extrusion systems for polymer, pharmaceutical, battery, and food applications. Our modular equipment scales from lab to production, requiring minimal sample material while delivering precise control over mixing and temperature parameters. Develop new materials, optimize formulations, or scale production with versatile, reliable extruders that transform processing challenges into competitive advantages.
Rheometry & Viscosity Analysis
Advanced rheological instruments for precise material characterization across industries. From intuitive touchscreen rheometers to portable viscometers, our solutions deliver reliable measurements of flow behavior, viscoelasticity, yield stress, and more. Whether optimizing formulations in R&D or ensuring batch consistency in QC, our modular systems with specialized accessories provide the data you need to develop superior products and streamline production processes.
Gauging
Whether your application is steel, aluminum, plastics, lithium-ion battery, or nonwovens manufacturing, our time-tested non-contact thickness measurement and coating weight gauges provide robust, reliable, accurate, and repeatable measurements and controls - helping to ensure your products meet the most precise specifications.
Handheld Elemental Analyzers
Thermo Scientific™ Niton™ handheld analyzers deliver fast and accurate elemental identification in the field. XRF technology models, such as the XL2 Plus and XL5 Plus, offer non-destructive analysis of metals, alloys, and hazardous elements. For carbon and CE testing, the Niton Apollo uses LIBS technology. Trusted across the recycling (metals and battery), oil and gas, mining, fabrication, and environmental sectors, Niton analyzers are rugged, reliable, and ready for any challenge.
Industrial Hygiene
Industrial hygiene instruments and services keep your investments secure, your facilities compliant with local regulations, and your workers safe from leaking pollutants, gases or toxic vapors. With our environmental expertise in LDAR you can breathe easily knowing your company, workers, and neighboring communities have cleaner, safer, and healthier air quality.
Optical Emission Spectrometry
Thermo Scientific™ ARL™ iSpark™ Plus Optical Emission Spectrometers are high-performance, turn-key solutions for fast, accurate elemental analysis of metals and alloys across production, quality control, and laboratory applications. With industry-leading optics and advanced acquisition technologies, the ARL iSpark Plus series delivers precise and stable results from trace to percent concentration levels for steel, aluminum, non-ferrous metals, and precious metals. Integrated Spark-DAT inclusion analysis provides simultaneous characterization of non-metallic inclusions during elemental analysis, and the Fire Assay Analyzer variant enables direct, quantitative determination of precious metals in lead buttons. Built for long-term reliability and efficiency, the ARL iSpark Plus family supports comprehensive metallurgical analysis and process insight across modern metals industries.
Process Mass Spectrometers
Thermo Scientific™ process mass spectrometers - Prima PRO, Sentinel PRO, APIX/APIMS δQ, and Quattro™ UHP - deliver fast, reliable gas analysis for real-time decision-making. From multistream process optimization to ultra-trace detection in UHP environments, our solutions support semiconductor, electronics, biofuels, e-fuels, clean energy, refining, petrochemical, and flare gas applications.
Radiation Detection
Radiation detection and monitoring solutions help protect your investments, ensure regulatory compliance, and keep your workforce safe from harmful exposure. With our long standing expertise in radiation safety, you can operate confidently knowing your facilities, personnel, and neighboring communities are shielded from potential radiological hazards - creating a cleaner, safer, and more secure environment.
Vibrational Spectroscopy
Thermo Fisher Scientific offers vibrational spectroscopy solutions - including near-infrared (NIR), multi-range Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), and Raman - that help enable confident material identification, quality testing, research and development, production optimization, and failure analysis across a wide range of industries. Designed for performance, reliability, and ease of use, our systems support scientists and engineers in turning complex data into clear insight.
For more than fifty years, Thermo Scientific™ Nicolet™ FTIR spectrometers have supported research and industry with robust, flexible solutions that adapt to evolving laboratory and production needs. Our Thermo Scientific Raman spectrometers support point analysis, confocal microscopy, and chemical imaging - enabling detailed molecular characterization from the lab to the manufacturing floor.
Together, our vibrational spectroscopy portfolio is designed to help customers accelerate innovation, strengthen quality processes, and move science forward with clarity and confidence.
X-Ray Diffraction
Thermo Scientific™ ARL™ X'TRA Companion X-Ray Diffractometer provides reliable phase identification and quantitative analysis for quality control, process optimization, and research applications. Designed for accuracy, robustness, and ease of use, it delivers precise crystallographic data for raw material verification, finished product validation, and investigation of unknown phases. Compact and efficient, the ARL X'TRA Companion XRD supports confident, routine structural analysis across industrial and laboratory environments.
X-Ray Fluorescence (Laboratory)
Thermo Scientific™ ARL™ X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) spectrometers deliver fast, precise, and non-destructive elemental analysis for laboratory applications across metals, mining, cement, and advanced materials. The ARL QUANT’X EDXRF Spectrometer offers flexible benchtop performance with minimal sample preparation, while the ARL PERFORM’X and ARL X900 WDXRF systems provide high sensitivity, broad elemental coverage, and exceptional repeatability from trace to major concentrations. Designed for robust operation and analytical confidence, Thermo Scientific XRF solutions support reliable quality control and material characterization in industrial and research laboratories.