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[June 2004]
Millbrook Wins New Orders in Materials Field
Millbrook Scientific Instruments PLC has received two new orders for the Millbrook MiniSIMS.
The orders, from the University of Brescia in Italy and the University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne in England, are due for delivery now and, says the company, reinforce its position as the major international supplier of desktop instrumentation based on SIMS (secondary ion mass spectrometry).
The MiniSIMS supplied to the University of Northumbria will form part of a 4.5 million research project. Known as 'The Supergen Initiative: Photovoltaic Materials for the 21st Century', the project is funded by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
This research project is the largest ever UK research programme on solar cells and its purpose is to slash the cost of solar energy by half. Millbrook is one of the key industrial partners in this programme and hopes to establish a position where multiple sales of the MiniSIMS into the solar energy sector will result.
The sale to the University of Brescia is the company's first sale in Italy. The instrument will be supplied to the Material Science Group, which is engaged in research into thin films and multilayers for optical, catalytic, sensor, metallurgical and magnetic materials applications.
ENDS