March 2010: Following last year's Editor's choice Gold award for excellence in innovation, the Royal Society of Chemistry's "Chemistry World" March 2010 issue features an in depth look at inXitu, its products and typical applications. Read the full article here.
March 2010: inXitu introduces the second generation bench top XRD/XRF instrument "BTX II". Following our sucuessful introduction of BTX, inXitu is pleased to follow this up with the next generation product, which features CE certification, and a new price, making BTX-II the most cost effective powder x-ray diffractometer on the market. Check it out!!
February 2010: It's an exciting time for inXitu as our growth has resulted in the need for a new & larger facility. As such, we moved down the road a bit to Campbell, California. We are just minutes from the San Jose, CA airport (SJC) and in the heart of Silicon Valley. Our new larger manufacturing, R&D center allows us to continue to keep up with the exciting pace associated with the underlying technology afforded with our expanding product range. Need directions?
2009 – inXitu receives "Best new product 2009 Pittcon" for TERRA
A recently launched field portable XRF/XRD instrument developed by inXitu Inc. has been awarded the Editors' Choice GOLD Prize as the most outstanding new product at the 2009 PITTCON conference and technical exhibition (March 8-13, Chicago, IL). The PITTCON Editors' Choice Awards are intended to recognize the best examples of innovative and creative instruments showcased at the exposition and are selected by an independent voting survey of registered press members attending the conference and trade-show. PITTCON is a flagship annual event in the analytical equipment industry, typically attracting over 25,000 attendees and over 1,000 companies, many of whom time their new product releases for this exhibition.
TERRA is the world’s first combined X-ray fluorescence, X-ray diffraction instrument designed for field applications. Completely contained, TERRA allows for remote operation in environment where the advantages of X-Ray diffraction were not formally possible.
Bradley Boyer, CEO of inXitu states, "We are thrilled to be honored by the press members attending Pittcon. I’ve been attending Pittcon since 1985 and can surely attest to the significance this award. To be placed in the same category as many of the world’s most innovative products is truly an important moment for us and the ever expanding field of portable analytical instruments."
Inxitu and Innov-X Systems are pleased to announce the forming of a strategic relationship between the two companies. As such, inXitu has agreed to design and manufacture a portfolio of portable X-Ray Diffraction instruments exclusively for Innov-X. This series of instruments will include the new and recently introduced Terra field portable XRD/XRF instrument which will be re-branded under the Innov-X name. “We are very excited to join forces with Innov-X, and bring our expertise in field portable XRD products to the obvious strength of the InnoV-X XRF products and worldwide distribution”, said Bradley Boyer, President of inXitu . Don Sackett, President and CEO of Innov-X Systems stated “Innov-X Systems is emerging as the global leader in the supply of portable instrumentation for mineral and mining applications and our new relationship with inXitu furthers this strategy. We now can offer our customers a comprehensive suite of products ideally suited for their requirements.”
February 08, 2008 – inXitu receives SBIR grant from NASA
In an ongoing effort to reduce the size and weight of planetary missions, NASA has awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant to inXitu Inc. to develop a “Miniature Sample Collection and Delivery System using Gas-entrained Powder Transport”. This innovation will provide a simple, low mass, low power means of sample collection for landed planetary missions.
May 08, 2008 – inXitu featured in Nature magazine
Chief scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute, Giacomo Chiari, discusses how inXitu's XRD and XRF technology, originally developed for the Mars Science Laboratory, is being used here on Earth for art conservation. Read the Nature article here.
