Markes International
| Industry | Scientific instruments |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1997 |
| Headquarters | Llantrisant, Wales, UK |
| Products | thermal desorption instrumentation & accessories, time-of-flight mass spectrometers & accompanying software |
| Website | www.markes.com |
Markes International, headquartered in the UK, develops and manufactures scientific instruments for thermal desorption and time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
Markes’ factory, technical centre and headquarters is near Cardiff, UK, and in 2011, they expanded this and their USA operation in Cincinnati, Ohio (Markes International, Inc.), adding extra laboratory and demonstration facilities.
In 2013, Markes became a company of the Schauenburg International Group,[1] and opened a technical centre near Frankfurt as part of their German operation (Markes International GmbH).
On 21 April 2015, it was announced that Markes International has been honoured with a Queen's Award for Enterprise in the “International Trade” category.[2]
Application areas
The company's products are used in a variety of application areas, including:
- environmental monitoring – the detection of hazardous chemicals in air, water and soil.[3]
- homeland security - detection of chemical warfare agents [4]
- food analysis - quality control & safety [5]
- fragrance and aroma profiling
- material emissions
- tobacco analysis
- petrochemical fingerprinting
- environmental forensics[6]
- breath sampling for disease diagnosis[7][8]
Innovations
Markes holds patents for a number of technological innovations, including:
- The design of a novel soft electron ionisation source[9]
Awards
- Select-eV variable-energy ion-source technology was awarded fourth place in the 2014 The Analytical Scientist Innovation Awards (TASIAs)[10]
- Select-eV variable-energy ion-source technology received an Honourable Mention at the Pittcon Editors’ Awards in 2014.
- Queen's Award for Enterprise in the “International Trade” category, 2015.[11]
References
- ↑ German firm buys majority stake in specialist producer, Wales Online, January 2013
- ↑ Queen's Award for Enterprise: Wales Millennium Centre, a trio of top firms and an enterprise expert honoured, Wales Online, April 2015
- ↑ M.A. Parra, D. Elustondo, R. Bermejo and J.M. Santamaría, Ambient air levels of volatile organic compounds (VOC) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in a medium size city in Northern Spain, Science of the Total Environment, 2009, 407: 999–1010
- ↑ W. A. Carrick, D. B. Cooper and D. Muir, Retrospective identification of chemical warfare agents by high-temperature automatic thermal desorption-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, J. Chromatogr. A, 2001, 925(1-2), pp. 241-249
- ↑ J. Fischer, T. Haas, J. Leppert, P. Schulze Lammers, G. Horner, M. Wüst and P. Boeker, Fast and solvent-free quantitation of boar taint odorants in pig fat by stable isotope dilution analysis–dynamic headspace-thermal desorption–gas chromatography/time-of-flight mass spectrometry, Food Chem., 2014, 158, pp. 345–350
- ↑ S.J. Rowland, A.G. Scarlett, D. Jones, C.E. West and R.A. Frank, Diamonds in the rough: Identification of individual naphthenic acids in oil sands process water, Environ. Sci. Technol., 2011, 45 (7), pp 3154–3159
- ↑ Award Winning Breath Sampler for Solvents Designed by the Health and Safety Laboratory, July 1999
- ↑ J.W. Dallinga et al., Volatile organic compounds in exhaled breath as a diagnostic tool for asthma in children, Clinical and Experimental Allergy, 2010, 40: 68–76
- ↑ An analytical apparatus utilising electron impact ionisation, Patent WO 2014128462 A2
- ↑ Return of the TASIAs
- ↑ Queen's Award for Enterprise: Wales Millennium Centre, a trio of top firms and an enterprise expert honoured, Wales Online, April 2015