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[August 2004]
Millbrook Gains New Export Orders Approaching Million
Millbrook Scientific Instruments PLC has received its first order from Holland and Malaysia for the Millbrook MiniSIMS and also from France for its Aquila nkd desktop instrument. After deducting agents' commissions and so on, the combined value of these three orders is over 230,000.
The Dutch order was placed by an international collaborative research and technology centre. The laboratory tests and validates novel materials that must perform reliably in severe environmental extremes. The MiniSIMS will provide advanced surface analysis for a wide range of these high technology materials and the user friendly operation of the instrument was believed to be an important factor in its selection. This order also included the recently announced option of large sample handling which will in due course extend the range of samples that can be routinely analysed.
The MiniSIMS for Malaysia is going to the Microelectronic Engineering Department of KUKUM, the university located in Perlis in the north of the country, which opened in 2002 with state-of-the-art laboratory facilities. Great emphasis is placed on a practical approach to teaching, with only 40% of time spent in formal lectures.
The sale of the Aquila nkd 7000 spectrophotometer was to the Laboratoire de Verre at the University of Montpellier where the instrument will be used in the development of telecommunications components, including single and multi-layer optical films.
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