11 From left to right: Ali Bindernagel (chairman), Sergio Filippini (member of the board), Günther Schnell (managing director sales & marketing) and Rötger Teyke (managing director commercial)
Schnell takes over from Filippini at Kocks Günther Schnell has been appointed managing director sales and marketing at Friedrich Kocks GmbH & Co KG. Mr Schnell takes over from Sergio Filippini, who retired from the business on 1 March after 16 years in a managerial capacity with Kocks. According to Kocks, the appointment of Mr Schnell ensures the addition of another expert to the company’s executive team. He has considerable steel industry experience. Following a degree in process technology, he started his career in 1997 with VAI Technometal
GmbH as a project manager sales and technology in the field of secondary metallurgy. He joined Friedrich Kocks in 2002 and eventually took on the position of general manager sales/chief representative China. In 2010 he joined SMS group, where he was general manager for wire rod, bar and merchant bar mills. “KOCKS is a unique brand with an outstanding and dedicated team of experts. The 3-roll technology of KOCKS has been setting standards in the long products industry for decades with regard to quality and reliability,” said Schnell.
He added that as a privately owned, mid-size niche player, Kocks should seek to stand out not only with an outstanding product, but also by putting the customer’s success at the heart of its activities and giving every single customer undivided attention, excellent service and quick response times. “I’m looking forward to contributing to these ambitious goals,” he said.
For further information, log on to www.kocks.de
New spectrometer launched ThermoFisher Scientific has introduced a new bench-top spectrometer for laboratory managers, quality control technicians and scientists conducting routine analysis or research on a wide range of materials and sample sizes. The ARL QUANT’X EDXRF (Energy-Dispersive X-ray Flourescence) spectrometer is designed to be four times more sensitive that Thermo’s previous version and is claimed to cover all periodic table elements. The new equipment incorporates a 50W x-ray tube and the latest-generation silicon drift detector (SDD) to enable analysis of light elements and small spot analysis. According to Thermo, it requires less lab space than its predecessors and accommodates typical sample sizes used in XRF analysis as well as large and irregularly shaped samples. Didier Bonvin, XRF product manager at Thermo steeltimesint.com
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Fisher, said that scientists and quality control technicians are under pressure to perform fast elemental analyses that provide full material identification on many sample types and shapes. Bonvin added that the ARL QUANT’X was redesigned to improve efficiency, ease operation and lower cost of ownership. He described the new spectrometer as ‘a tool to solve their most challenging analytical tasks’. Metal is just one area where the machine provides metals characterisation. Other areas include mining, cement and petrochemicals, the company claims.
For further details, log on to www.thermofisher.com/XRF
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