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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announces that Tata Steel, the largest private sector steel company in India and the 6th largest steel producer in the world, has selected the Thermo Scientific ARL 4460 Optical Emission metals analyzer with SMS-2000 automation for their LD1 steel melting shop at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand State, India. This purchase marks a milestone achievement for Thermo Fisher, resulting in the 300th customer order of the ARL SMS-2000 system and the first to be sold in India.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc is pleased to announce that the 500th iCAP 6000 ICP emission spectrometer produced at its facility in Cambridge, UK has been shipped to Boeing. The instrument has been purchased by Boeing for use at its Frederickson facility in Washington State, USA. It will be used in the quality assurance laboratory to monitor the contents of chemical tanks used in the production of aluminum wings and other structural components. The Thermo Scientific iCAP 6000 will be analyzing traces of metals including copper and iron in the tanks which range in capacity from 34,000 to 59,000 gallons. This analysis is indicative of the ‘health’ of the tanks and is a key step in the QA processes.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announces that Midwest Laboratories, Inc. has chosen the powerful Thermo Scientific iCAP 6000 Series of ICP emission spectrometers to perform soil analyses in its agricultural laboratory. Featuring the most sensitive and compact ICP emission spectrometers available on the market, the iCAP 6000 Series allows Midwest Laboratories to process approximately 2,000-3,000 samples per day, evaluating the nutrient levels of soil while advising farmers on the type and amount of fertilizer to use to achieve and maintain optimum growth levels.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has made another important development in the area of X-ray analysis for industrial and central laboratories carrying out materials characterization and quality control analyses. For the first time, the new Thermo Scientific ARL 9900 Series X-ray Workstation combines full X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) into a single instrument, bringing increased productivity and reduced cost of ownership to the laboratory. It is now possible to perform a complete elemental (chemical) analysis and determine the mineral or structural composition on the same sample under vacuum with one single X-ray instrument.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announces that its iCAP 6500 spectrometer was employed by Shell Global Solutions in the mobile laboratory at the 24 hour Le Mans race 2007. The Thermo Scientific iCAP 6500 spectrometer is part of the award-winning Thermo Scientific iCAP 6000 series of ICP emission spectrometers. Designed for a wide range of industries and specifically suited to the needs of general and elemental analysis laboratories in the petrochemical industry, the iCAP 6500 features a unique radial plasma, ideal for testing the condition of car engine oils, lubricants and hydraulic fluids. Shell Global Solutions ran tests in the mobile laboratory for their technology partner Audi Sport, the race winners, as well as fuel quality monitoring as exclusive fuel supplier to the ACO for all competitors.

Following the outstanding success of its pioneering Encoded Photometric Infrared Spectroscopy (EP-IR) analyzers, Aspectrics, Inc., has established a new Professional Services Division to demonstrate its express commitment to its ever-growing clientele. The new Division will work closely with both existing and potential customers in order to create turnkey custom solutions to address their specific application requirements.

Aspectrics, Inc announces that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific to seamlessly integrate Thermo Scientific GRAMS spectroscopy software with Aspectrics’ groundbreaking Encoded Photometric Near Infrared (EP-NIR) process analyzers.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announces that the Thermo Scientific K-Alpha has been named by R&D Magazine as one of the top 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year. Utilizing the fast growing technique of X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), the K-Alpha enables rapid, accurate and cost-effective quantitative monitoring of the surface chemical composition, providing chemical characterization of the top few nanometers of inorganic, organic, biological, metallurgical, semi-conducting and magnetic solids. Designed for high-throughput sample analysis, the revolutionary system incorporates data processing algorithms offering full automation for data acquisition through to interpretation and reporting.

Document management has emerged as an integral part of many companies’ information technology strategies because of the need to integrate document creation, storage and transfer with critical business processes. Now there is a unique, traceable and transparent document management system that enables collaboration across an extended enterprise from First Trace, Inc – the Kinnosa Enterprise Document Management (EDM) 4.0 system. Kinnosa EDM 4.0 is the next leap forward in document management evolution and is far superior to any other enterprise document solutions on the market today. Kinnosa EDM 4.0 provides users with the ability to trace a document from initial creation to project completion using existing applications and systems, without interrupting business operations.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announces the launch of its enhanced partner program. Designed to support the expansion of Thermo Scientific Informatics activity via its partners around the globe, the world class program will utilize business partners to better meet customer needs in multiple industries. Thermo Scientific's award winning Informatics offerings include laboratory information management systems (LIMS), chromatography data systems (CDS) and spectroscopy software. The program will be launched at this year's Thermo Informatics World (TIW) North American and European user meetings that will take place in Miami, Florida from October 15 to 19 and in Lisbon, Portugal from November 12 to 16.