Alloying aluminum (Al) with small amounts of other elements can produce a light, strong metal — 10 to 60 times harder and stronger than its pure elemental form, yet two-thirds lighter than steel. This fact has spurred the growth of the aluminum processing industry, led by firms such as Constellium. Headquartered in Paris, the company has been a global leader in the development and manufacture of high-value-added aluminum products and solutions, and in aluminum recycling for many decades. Customer industries range from aerospace and automotive to packaging and others.
For production purpose Constellium needs to analyze very quickly the composition in the elaboration furnace in order to be able to correct it if needed and finally to produce the correct composition in a very efficient manner. As a producer of Certified Reference Materials (CRM), Constellium needs to provide very narrow confidence intervals and having an elemental analyzer with a very good repeatability and reproducibility is mandatory.
In 2021, the SPECTROLAB S arc/spark metal analyzer appeared as a new emerging technology on the market and promised to overcome some of the existing limitations that other spectrometers were struggling with.
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