Thermo Electron Wins Award

Thermo Electron’s Niton portable XRF range wins Gold Industrial Design Excellence award Thermo Electron Corp. announces that its NITON X-ray Fluorescence analyzers have been awarded a Gold IDEA in the Medical & Scientific Products category. The IDEA awards are dedicated to fostering business and public understanding of the importance of industrial design excellence to the quality of life and the economy. The awards are co-sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America and BusinessWeek magazine.

Thermo’s XRF analyzer line was designed by Altitude Inc. Thermo’s NITON portable X-ray fluorescence analyzers are used for nondestructive testing applications, including RoHS and WEEE compliance, metal alloy sorting, positive material inspection, mineral exploration and mining, precious metals analysis, environmental risk assessment and lead paint testing.

Altitude's designers developed XRF analyzers that maximize productivity. Niton's XLi, XLp and XLt Series XRF analyzers determine approximate sample chemistries and identify different samples in as little as one second. The XLi Series is the smallest, lightest weight XRF analyzer in the world.

“We are extremely pleased that the NITON XRF analyzer family has been awarded the prestigious IDEA Gold award, particularly after winning an R&D 100 award for its achievements in applied research and development from an industry journal on research and development. But the real validation of the product’s design has come from our customers; product sales have increased more than 175 percent over the past three years, leading to the acquisition of NITON by Thermo in March 2005,” says Bob Churchwell, VP of portable XRF analyzer manufacturing at Thermo.