Markes International
| Industry | Scientific instruments |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1997 |
| Headquarters | Llantrisant, Wales, UK |
| Products | thermal desorption instrumentation & accessories, time-of-flight mass spectrometers & accompanying software |
| Website | www.markes.com |
Markes International, headquartered in the UK, develops and manufactures scientific instruments for thermal desorption and time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
Markes’ factory, technical centre and headquarters is near Cardiff, UK. In 2011, they expanded this and their US operation in Cincinnati, Ohio (Markes International, Inc.), adding extra laboratory and demonstration facilities. In 2017 the Cincinnati office was closed and the US operations transferred to a new office in Gold River, Sacramento, California. In 2013, Markes became a company of the Schauenburg International Group,[1] and opened a technical centre near Frankfurt as part of their German operation (Markes International GmbH).
The company has arrangements for distribution and market development with Agilent Technologies,[2] ThermoFisher Scientific,[3] and a number of other distributors.
Markes International holds patents for a number of technological innovations, including diffusion-locking caps and inserts for sorbent tubes,[4][5][6] RFID tags for sorbent tubes,[7] and a soft electron ionisation source.[8]
In 2015 Markes International received a Queen's Award for Enterprise in the “International Trade” category (2015).[9]
References
- ^ German firm buys majority stake in specialist producer, Wales Online, January 2013 Archived 2016-03-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ http://www.agilent.com/about/newsroom/presrel/2009/27feb-ca09013.html
- ^ http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/60474/
- ^ E.A. Woolfenden and A. Cole, ‘Sample tube caps’, UK patent no. GB2337513, 25 September 2002 (http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?FT=D&date=20020925&DB=&locale=en_EP&CC=GB&NR=2337513B&KC=B&ND=1)
- ^ E.A. Woolfenden and A. Cole, ‘Sampling device’, UK patent no. GB2359070, 4 December 2002 (http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?FT=D&date=20021204&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP&CC=GB&NR=2359070B&KC=B&ND=4)
- ^ E.A. Woolfenden and A. Cole, ‘Sample tube caps’, UK patent no. GB2374866, 11 December 2002 (http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?FT=D&date=20021211&DB=&locale=en_EP&CC=GB&NR=2374866B&KC=B&ND=1)
- ^ E.A. Woolfenden and A. Cole, ‘Sampling device’, US patent no. US 6,446,515, 10 September 2002 (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,446,515.PN.&OS=PN/6,446,515&RS=PN/6,446,515)
- ^ An analytical apparatus utilising electron impact ionisation, Patent WO 2014128462 A2
- ^ Queen's Award for Enterprise: Wales Millennium Centre, a trio of top firms and an enterprise expert honoured, Wales Online, April 2015