Oxford Instruments named in U.K. Green Index

Oxford Instruments, a United Kingdom-based maker of hand-held analysers and other equipment, has been named among the 30 British companies that make up the new FTSE (Financial Times Stock Exchange) Environmental Opportunities Index.

Companies on the index “must have significant involvement in environmental business activities and must generate at least 20 percent of revenues from environment related markets,” according to news release from Oxford Instruments.

Oxford Instruments is providing equipment to the developers of photovoltaic devices who are seeking to produce cost effective solutions for turning sunlight into electricity.  It is also working with international agencies on the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) programme that “seeks to develop a technology that will allow the production of large quantities of carbon-free energy.”

High-brightness light-emitting diodes offer the possibility of lighting that is “so efficient that if adopted widely [it] would make significant cuts in worldwide CO₂ emissions,” according to Oxford Instruments, whose equipment is being used in such research.