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News Release from: Central Laboratories | Subject: INGOTT
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 02 June 2005
The world's largest NIR spectral data
base
Central Laboratories, Banbury UK and CRA-W, Gembloux Belgium have combined their technical knowledge and resources to produce a multi-million pound NIR spectral database, INGOTT
Central Laboratories, Banbury UK and CRA-W, Gembloux Belgium have combined their technical knowledge and resources to produce a multi-million pound NIR spectral database, INGOTT Recognised as the international leaders in the development of NIR calibrations for the analysis of raw materials and finished products, the partnership between Central Laboratories and CRA-W will revolutionise the routine use of NIR technology as it allows customers access to global calibrations that have been derived from vast data sets
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 19 Feb 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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INGOTT offers new and existing users of NIR spectroscopy in the international milling, grain, animal feeds and food processing industries a highly cost-effective solution for measuring moisture, protein, ash, fat, fibre, minerals and starch and other nutritional values across a vast spectrum of raw materials and finished products.
Two of the most significant advantages of this development are that the calibration equations can be supported on all NIR hardware and require only minimal customer maintenance.
Users will also benefit from having a calibration package that is very much a 'plug and play' facility which will be constantly improved and developed jointly by Central Laboratories and CRA-W.
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"NIR users can have total confidence in employing these equations as they have been derived from a vast spectral data base of proven calibrations backed up by accredited supporting wet chemistry," says Chris Piotrowski, Director Central Laboratories.
"These calibration sets, which are essentially the power behind NIR, are built on seasonal, geographical and extensive product sample varieties collected over a decade, with the equations having been derived and validated by experts in the field of spectroscopy".
Announcing the signing of the joint agreement between Central Laboratories and CRA-W, Pierre Dardenne, Head of the Quality Department at CRA-W said: "This is a very exciting development that offers for the first time a whole suite of accessible calibrations that can be used globally".
He continued: "As the world's population is predicted to increase dramatically, thereby placing greater demand on agriculturalists and food producers, NIR spectroscopy is destined to play a much more significant role in the producer supply chain.
INGOTT, being a continuing and evolving universal tool, can have a highly influential impact wherever NIR spectroscopy is used.".
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