ALLOY IDENTIFICATION

Material control and alloy identification

Two stainless bars look alike. Their grades are not equivalent, and the difference only shows once the part is in service. A portable analyser reads the composition on the part itself, at goods-in as at the machine.

On the part
No cutting, no test coupon
100% of the batch
The check destroys nothing
At the station
On the floor rather than in a lab

Where the grade has to be certain

Six situations where nobody wants to discover the composition too late.

Goods-in inspection

Checking what arrives before the supplier's certificate is the only evidence available.

Sorting and untangling on the floor

Mixed offcuts, unmarked bars: recovering the grade of each rather than downgrading the lot.

Pipework, welds and energy

A weld or a branch in the wrong grade holds — until the day corrosion decides otherwise.

Critical parts and subcontracting

Aerospace, medical, rail: material traceability is part of the delivered part.

Buying and reselling metal

The grade decides the price per kilo. Reading it fast changes the margin on a load.

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RoHS and regulated metals

The same instrument that reads a grade looks for lead, cadmium and mercury in a finished product.

Analyse d’aubes de réacteurs.

From the shop floor to the laboratory, with no blind spot

X-ray fluorescence covers the metals — most of what comes through goods-in and the workshop. When two steel grades separate only on carbon, the measurement continues by another route: spark at the station, or the laboratory.

We cover the whole chain, and we tell you from the outset where your need sits.

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What decides how reliable the sorting is

Three settings separate safe sorting from approximate sorting.

The grade library

An instrument only recognises what it knows. The library has to cover your families, and to tell apart the neighbouring grades you actually handle.

Measurement time

Sorting a pile and identifying a critical part do not call for the same counting time. Too short, and the minor elements vanish into the noise.

The measured surface

Scale, paint, grease, coating: the instrument reads what it touches. A rough preparation of the spot is worth more than a clever setting.

  • Calibrated in Switzerland
  • Repaired in Switzerland
  • Custom adjustments
  • Local support

Which grades do you need to separate?

Tell us the families you handle and the pairs that give you trouble. We will tell you whether X-ray fluorescence separates them, and with which instrument.