Overview
We help customers solve complex scientific and industrial challenges through applied technology and trusted analytical solutions. Our broad portfolio of instruments, equipment, software, and services supports industries such as pharma and biopharma, life sciences, food safety, environmental analysis, clean energy, defense, manufacturing, and mining. By combining advanced analytical technologies with deep scientific expertise, our globally deployed solutions improve quality, increase efficiency, reduce costs, and enable confident, real-time decision making.
Technology Summaries
X-Ray Sources
Our x-ray sources are deployed in a wide range of applications, for the testing, imaging, and inspection of items ranging from batteries, printed circuits boards and semi-conductor devices to animal fluoroscopy and dental prosthetics quality control. With short wavelengths and high energies required to penetrate through many different materials, they provide a non-destructive, easy-to-use, reliable technology, in the laboratory, in healthcare settings or on-line. Learn more.
Compounding & Extrusion
Advanced twin-screw extrusion systems for polymer, pharmaceutical, battery, and food applications. Our modular equipment scales from lab to production, requiring minimal sample material while delivering precise control over mixing and temperature parameters. Develop new materials, optimize formulations, or scale production with versatile, reliable extruders that transform processing challenges into competitive advantages.
Rheometry & Viscosity Analysis
Advanced rheological instruments for precise material characterization across industries. From intuitive touchscreen rheometers to portable viscometers, our solutions deliver reliable measurements of flow behavior, viscoelasticity, yield stress, and more. Whether optimizing formulations in R&D or ensuring batch consistency in QC, our modular systems with specialized accessories provide the data you need to develop superior products and streamline production processes.
Flow Measurement
Flow measurement and process control are critical aspects of producing, handling, and transporting hydrocarbons around the world. With our Thermo Scientific suite of flow computers and services, we enable our customers to reduce costs, decrease lost material, automate operations, and monitor critical points in processes. From field to control room and upstream to downstream, our products provide greater control and reliability.
Food Inspection
Thermo Scientific food inspection systems support critical control points across the manufacturing process - before and after final packaging - helping food manufacturers eliminate errors and maintain high safety and quality standards. The portfolio pairs contaminant detection (metal detection and X-ray inspection) with in-motion weight control (checkweighers/inline scales) to improve operational performance, product quality, and brand protection.
Gas & Particulate Analyzers
Governmental agencies continue to develop and redefine regulations that minimize the release of pollutants and toxins in the air. We offer a range of proven gas and particulates analysis technologies and monitoring solutions that deliver accurate, reliable air quality information in easy-to-use formats. Our advanced air monitoring solutions help you more efficiently comply with government regulations, optimize performance, and promote environmental justice for all.
Gauging
Whether your application is steel, aluminum, plastics, lithium-ion battery, or nonwovens manufacturing, our time-tested non-contact thickness measurement and coating weight gauges provide robust, reliable, accurate, and repeatable measurements and controls - helping to ensure your products meet the most precise specifications.
Handheld Elemental Analyzers
Thermo Scientific™ Niton™ handheld analyzers deliver fast and accurate elemental identification in the field. XRF technology models, such as the XL2 Plus and XL5 Plus, offer non-destructive analysis of metals, alloys, and hazardous elements. For carbon and CE testing, the Niton Apollo uses LIBS technology. Trusted across the recycling (metals and battery), oil and gas, mining, fabrication, and environmental sectors, Niton analyzers are rugged, reliable, and ready for any challenge.
Industrial Hygiene
Industrial hygiene instruments and services keep your investments secure, your facilities compliant with local regulations, and your workers safe from leaking pollutants, gases or toxic vapors. With our environmental expertise in LDAR you can breathe easily knowing your company, workers, and neighboring communities have cleaner, safer, and healthier air quality.
Optical Emission Spectrometry
Thermo Scientific™ ARL™ iSpark™ Plus Optical Emission Spectrometers are high-performance, turn-key solutions for fast, accurate elemental analysis of metals and alloys across production, quality control, and laboratory applications. With industry-leading optics and advanced acquisition technologies, the ARL iSpark Plus series delivers precise and stable results from trace to percent concentration levels for steel, aluminum, non-ferrous metals, and precious metals. Integrated Spark-DAT inclusion analysis provides simultaneous characterization of non-metallic inclusions during elemental analysis, and the Fire Assay Analyzer variant enables direct, quantitative determination of precious metals in lead buttons. Built for long-term reliability and efficiency, the ARL iSpark Plus family supports comprehensive metallurgical analysis and process insight across modern metals industries.
Process Mass Spectrometers
Thermo Scientific™ process mass spectrometers - Prima PRO, Sentinel PRO, APIX/APIMS δQ, and Quattro™ UHP - deliver fast, reliable gas analysis for real-time decision-making. From multistream process optimization to ultra-trace detection in UHP environments, our solutions support semiconductor, electronics, biofuels, e-fuels, clean energy, refining, petrochemical, and flare gas applications.
Radiation Detection
Radiation detection and monitoring solutions help protect your investments, ensure regulatory compliance, and keep your workforce safe from harmful exposure. With our long standing expertise in radiation safety, you can operate confidently knowing your facilities, personnel, and neighboring communities are shielded from potential radiological hazards - creating a cleaner, safer, and more secure environment.
Vibrational Spectroscopy
Thermo Fisher Scientific offers vibrational spectroscopy solutions - including near-infrared (NIR), multi-range Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), and Raman - that help enable confident material identification, quality testing, research and development, production optimization, and failure analysis across a wide range of industries. Designed for performance, reliability, and ease of use, our systems support scientists and engineers in turning complex data into clear insight.
For more than fifty years, Thermo Scientific™ Nicolet™ FTIR spectrometers have supported research and industry with robust, flexible solutions that adapt to evolving laboratory and production needs. Our Thermo Scientific Raman spectrometers support point analysis, confocal microscopy, and chemical imaging - enabling detailed molecular characterization from the lab to the manufacturing floor.
Together, our vibrational spectroscopy portfolio is designed to help customers accelerate innovation, strengthen quality processes, and move science forward with clarity and confidence.
X-Ray Diffraction
Thermo Scientific™ ARL™ X'TRA Companion X-Ray Diffractometer provides reliable phase identification and quantitative analysis for quality control, process optimization, and research applications. Designed for accuracy, robustness, and ease of use, it delivers precise crystallographic data for raw material verification, finished product validation, and investigation of unknown phases. Compact and efficient, the ARL X'TRA Companion XRD supports confident, routine structural analysis across industrial and laboratory environments.
X-Ray Fluorescence (Laboratory)
Thermo Scientific™ ARL™ X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) spectrometers deliver fast, precise, and non-destructive elemental analysis for laboratory applications across metals, mining, cement, and advanced materials. The ARL QUANT’X EDXRF Spectrometer offers flexible benchtop performance with minimal sample preparation, while the ARL PERFORM’X and ARL X900 WDXRF systems provide high sensitivity, broad elemental coverage, and exceptional repeatability from trace to major concentrations. Designed for robust operation and analytical confidence, Thermo Scientific XRF solutions support reliable quality control and material characterization in industrial and research laboratories.
FTIR Industrial Gas Analyzers
Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, is a robust analytical technique ideal for industrial gas analysis applications such as ambient air monitoring, emissions testing, and gas purity. The Thermo Scientific™ MAX-iR FTIR Gas Analyzer, utilizes Starboost™ optically enhanced FTIR (OE-FTIR), a breakthrough technology advancement that further expands analytical capabilities, enabling rapid and sensitive gas measurements in real-time.
Process Analyzers
Our slurry sampling, on-line particle & elemental analyzers solutions support you with accurate, real time & continuous data to ensure process control, automation, and optimization of minerals processing plants. Increased recovery and reagent usage are enabled by dedicated analysis and representative sampling. 50 years of experience in mining solutions enable us to customize solutions – not just products – for our clients to solve their ongoing analytical challenges.
UV-Vis Spectrometers
Scientists can count on our broad range of ultraviolet (UV) and visible (Vis) spectrophotometers to deliver reliable, accurate data. The Thermo Scientific SPECTRONIC 200, GENESYS, and Evolution product lines are designed to streamline measurements providing consistent, high-quality results, time after time. Additionally, the innovative Thermo Scientific NanoDrop microvolume family of instruments, have been helping scientists accelerate the pace of discovery for over 20 years. From classroom teaching - to routine measurements - to discovery of the next scientific breakthrough, our line of spectrophotometers is designed to fit into any modern laboratory.
Sulfur Analyzers
Online sulfur analyzers replace expensive and time-consuming laboratory sampling. Get fast responses and wide measurement ranges of trace sulfur and total sulfur in flare gas, liquid, and vapor for reliable emissions monitoring.