Facilities
Well established analytical skills and quality, up-to date equipment form the foundation of SAL's unique capability. The in-house skills cover a broad range of specialist techniques, as well as in-depth experience with a range of industries and their samples.Below are some of the instrumentation that we use in our laboratories. As SAL continues to grow, our capacity and our range of techniques increases.
Equipment
Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical
Emission Spectrometer
- MALDI-TOF: Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionisation Time flight Mass Spectrometry. Provides rapid peptide/protein identification and polymer characterisation.
- Autospec Ultima High Resolution GC-MS system.
- VG70SE High Resolution GC-Mass Spectrometry systems
- 4 Quadrupole and ion trap GC/MS systems.
- Modern Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy
- Infra-red spectroscopy
- High Pressure Liquid Chromatography systems
- Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry.
- Stand alone GC systems with FID, TCD, ECD and NPD detectors
- Ion chromatography
Each Laboratory has its own independent control over sample reception, sample preparation, sample extractions and information management, all operating under Quality Assurance disciplines which are recognised and accredited internationally.