With over 20 years of experience in providing solutions for the inorganic laboratory, Lachat Instruments has become the world leader in the fields of Flow Injection Analysis (FIA) and Ion Chromatography (IC).

Providing guaranteed solutions with premium technical and application support, Lachat Instruments has become the supplier of choice in many markets, including Australia and New Zealand.

All configurations of our flow injection analyser series enjoy the benefits of FIA's unique productivity characteristics:

• Fast Start-up and Shutdown: ~ 5 minutes
• Short Analysis Time and High Sample Throughput: 20 to 60 seconds typical with 60 to 120 samples per hour typical
• Broad Working Range: Parts per trillion to percents
• Complete Baseline Resolution: No carryover between samples
• Wide Dynamic Range: 2 to 3 decades typical range
• Rapid Method Changeover: ~10 minutes
• Guaranteed Data Quality: Data Quality ManagementTM™ (DQM) performs closed-loop control of analytical processes and supports many different QC/QA protocols
• Omnion FIA Software: Powerful, state-of-the-art Windows based software includes: the capability to run the Ion Chromatography Option, independently to FIA, parallel with FIA or sequentially to the FIA.

To accommodate large sample loads, the ASX500 XYZ sampler offers up to 360 sample and 16 bulk standard positions for both calibration and QC standards. The Dual Resolution Dilutor automates preparation of working standards from a stock standard. Laboratories with lower budgetary and automation requirements can select the ASX400 XYZ sampler with 60 sample positions and wash bath.

Lachat’s AP300 is the latest generation of instrumentation from Lachat Instruments for the analysis of colourimetric chemistries. With pre-programmed methods and prepared reagents the system can save both time and money. Other advantages of the system include simple setup, less operator training, ease of use due to automation of manual methods and reduced reagent consumption

Both block digestors incorporate several innovative features including:

• Cold finger to condense and recover virtually all acid fumes (less than 3% loss)
• Integral programmable controller for increased safety and convenience
• Anti-foaming bulb to reduce boil-over due to sample surfactants
  

The In-Line Sample Prep system offers a fully automated approach for determining strong acid and weak acid dissociable cyanide, total phenolics, total soluble nitrogen (alkaline persulfate digestion) and total soluble phosphorus (acid persulfate digestion) in surface and waste waters. The modules automatically perform sample digestion, distillation and determination of these analytes on the QuikChem® Automated Ion analysers based on flow injection analysis methods.