The world is entering its third year in which COVID-19 is eating up most of our all-interpersonal social contacts, like a black hole eats up matter. Like many other events scheduled for the beginning of 2022, an important event for the steel industry got postponed as well: the 70^th Indian Foundry Congress, IFEX, and Cast India Expo, being organized at Helipad Ground Exhibition Center, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India has been shifted from February to the 17^th to 19^th of April, 2022.

As winter draws to a close, and the Omicron variant appears to accelerate the transition from pandemic to endemic, the new IFEX date shines as a light of liberation on the event horizon of the COVID black hole. With India being the world's number two in total crude steel production for 2021 [1], and its promising motto "Business Beyond Boundaries", it is time to ring the bell for IFEX 2022 early.

High-quality steel is a driver of innovation and an indispensable material for numerous sectors. One key success factor for any metal manufacturer and foundry is a complete elemental analysis. Bruker AXS is committed to supporting the metals industry by supplying state-of-the-art analyzers, like spark Optical Emission Spectrometers (OES), combustion/fusion analyzers for special elements, and full line of X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) spectrometers.

Excellent support for the Indian metals industry and foundrymen for OES is ensured by our partner, Dynamic Technology Systems Pvt Ltd. (DTS), which will be introduced in the next issue. Be part of the liberation and visit the DTS booth at IFEX 2022 (hall 1, booth 32) and get to know the latest addition to Bruker's OES product line, the Q4 POLO, a true analytical giant in its first appearance at an event in India.

For further information, including our XRF solutions for the metals industry, read the full article.

* Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

There is a huge variety of raw, intermediate, and final petrochemical materials, from incoming feedstock at refineries to intermediate process streams and final automotive fuels or lubricants. The materials vary significantly with respect to their physical properties, from highly volatile such as gasoline, to viscose or even solid, such as greases and waxes. Each of these products require precise and reliable elemental analysis. This article gives an overview of the suitability and benefits of EDXRF and WDXRF instruments for multiple key applications in petrochemical analysis. 

Join us for an XRF online seminar on March 1^st, 2022: Cost Efficient Production from Crude Oil to Fuels and Lubricants: Fast Quality Control by Elemental Analysis! 

Bruker AXS is pleased to announce the grand opening of the Bruker LabScape Webshop, store.bruker.com, for X-ray Structural and Elemental Analysis products! With a wide range of sample holders, sample preparation supplies, X-ray sources, analytical accessories and other components now available under the X-RAY tab, we've made finding and ordering just the right part as easy as 1-2-3. Come visit, create an account, and save time!

Established in 2015, the XRD lab at ShanghaiTech University is one of the best-equipped in China. Its most recent addition, a new Bruker D8 VENTURE diffractometer with an Excillum METALJET D2 PLUS, makes it possible to push the limits of small-mole­cule crystallography with the highest possible X-ray brightness, throughput and data resolution available in a lab environment. Professor Yue-Biao Zhang, and other D8 VENTURE users in his lab, explain the benefit of owning an in-house solution, even though the synchrotron is within walking distance.

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