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Industry
  
Scientific instruments

Headquarters
  
Llantrisant

Parent organization
  
Schauenburg Service GmbH

Website
  
www.markes.com

Founded
  
1997

Markes International httpswwwlabbulletincomcustomMarkes20Intern

Products
  
thermal desorption instrumentation & accessories, time-of-flight mass spectrometers & accompanying software

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Markes International, headquartered in the UK, develops and manufactures scientific instruments for thermal desorption and time-of-flight mass spectrometry.

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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, 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.

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.
  • Homeland security - detection of chemical warfare agents
  • Food analysis - quality control & safety
  • Fragrance and aroma profiling
  • Material emissions
  • Tobacco analysis
  • Geochemical and petrochemical fingerprinting
  • Environmental forensics
  • Breath sampling for disease diagnosis
  • Metabolomic profiling

    • Innovations

    Markes holds patents for a number of technological innovations, including:

  • The design of a novel soft electron ionisation source

    • Awards

  • Select-eV variable-energy ion-source technology was awarded fourth place in the 2014 The Analytical Scientist Innovation Awards (TASIAs)
  • 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.
  • Tandem Ionisation was awarded third place in the 2016 The Analytical Scientist Innovation Awards (TASIAs)

    • References

    Markes International Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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