Millbrook Scientific Instruments plc triple sale to high-tech Finland
Millbrook Scientific Instruments plc announces that its third MiniSIMS instrument to be supplied to Finland has been successfully installed and commissioned.Finland, according to the World Economic Forum, is ‘one of the world's top three countries to use the benefits of technology for growth and productivity.'
Millbrook's, automated, self-contained, desk-top instrument provides chemical analyses of increasingly complex composite materials. The first MiniSIMS purchase from Blackburn based Millbrook was by the Chemistry Department of Joensuu University where it is being used to supplement their characterisation capabilities for research into anti-fouling polyethylene surfaces under the guidance of Professor Tapani Pakkanen, a member of the European Organisation for Scientific Collaboration.Millbrook's second Finnish customer, The Advanced Surface Technology Research Laboratory (ASTRaL) in Mikkeli, cited the ease of use and minimal training requirements of the MiniSIMS as key elements of the rationale for their purchase. The centre, which is part of the Lappeenranta University of Technology, has been analysing the changes in composition during the deposition of ceramic films for their publicly funded research programmes.
Most recently the Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences purchased their MiniSIMS for use at the Digipolis Technology Park, a central open access facility for companies, universities and technology related organisations. Wireless electronic devices from manufacturers such as Nokia represent some of Finland's most successful exports and Millbrook's instrumentation is currently being used for the analysis of the pioneering electronic components used in such products.
Commenting on the sales, Dr Nick Long, Sales Director of Millbrook Instruments Ltd, said: "Our instruments are being used by dynamic high technology organisations throughout the world driven by a trend away from monolithic materials towards those incorporating functional or cosmetic coatings which are often only nanometres in thickness."
