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To: Nescom who wrote ()	6/16/1998 2:59:00 PM
From: Nescom	Read Replies (1) of 24

I picked this up from my Dow Jones publications library. News in brief:EQUITECH 01/21/98 Analytical Instrument Industry Report (COPYRIGHT 1998 AII Report, Ltd.) Copyright 1998 Business Communications Co., Inc. EQUITECH International Corp. (Aiken, SC) is introducing this month a complete 18-port fiber-coupled spectroscopy system, according to senior applications scientist Dr. Lewis Baylor, priced at around $25,000. The system will include a high performance UV spectrometer operating in the 200nm to 800nm range and an enhanced Hamamatsu CCD (charged coupled device) detector. The company entered the spectroscopy market at Pittcon '97 (AII Report 14 (1) 8) and has now completed its first range of stainless steel probes capable of operating at 300C and 3,000psi. The company's multiplexers are fiber-to-fiber switching systems designed without internal optics. Baylor notes, "we'll be selling all these products on an OEM basis for lab and process applications at less than $6,000 versus over $10,000 from our competitors". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Practical application manufacturing electronics or die casting that does plating on parts for assembly. A manufacturing scenario is when these parts are dipped into a cleaning solution that vat containing the solution will be polluted. They will want to measure the chemical contents to make certain they don't go below predefined standards and levels. Once the solution has been diluted and gone below these levels chemicals maybe reintroduced into the vat to bring them back up to the proper levels. Semiconductor companies use these type of devices for quality assurance in manufacturing of semiconductors. Any process with the requirement for tight control of chemical contents would use this spectroscopy system. If it's a real-time mass production environment they would be able to take advantage of the portable spectroscopy system that Equitech has created. This is more advantageous than batch processing. Batch processing is when they take a sample to the lab. The onsite or off site lab then issues results of the tests. Real-time monitoring is more stream lined when they require measuring of the chemical vats daily or hourly. They could wheel this portable unit around the factory floor and measure multiple processing areas of the production line. These analytical devices are considered expensive. If Equitech has developed a competitive product that is simpler to produce because Equitech's design for their spectroscopy system makes it cheaper due to less optics. Then I see them having a competitive advantage over the competition. I don't have industry numbers but I would guess it is a massive market. How many companies are there that do electronics assembly and manufacturing? My guess is that it is staggering. I am trying to find some number for the industry.

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