(Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.: Ecublens, Switzerland) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a global leader in serving science, has launched a solution for preparing ferrous metals samples for optical emission and X-ray fluorescence. The solution integrates the Haas Mini Mill milling machine from Haas Inc. with the Thermo Scientific ARL PrepControl automation extension which addresses the requirements of modern process-control laboratories for high-quality, reproducible, and reliable ferrous metals sample preparation.

Milling is becoming the preferred method for preparing ferrous metals samples for subsequent analysis with spectrometric techniques. Efficient, reproducible, and dependable sample preparation plays a crucial role in the analytical performance of X-ray fluorescence (XRF), spectrometers, and optical-emission spectrometers (OES). The Haas Mini Mill with ARL PrepControl produces the high quality and reproducible prepared sample surfaces required for spectrometer analysis. The system can be easily integrated with automated Thermo Scientific ARL metals analyzers and XRF spectrometers without any modifications for entirely unattended, reliable, and fast sample preparation and analysis.

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