Easy-mode expertise with the user-friendly FORJ

Could you fly the world’s fastest airplane? How about performing surgery using the world’s most advanced medical instruments?

FORJ is the world’s fastest, safest, and most accurate fusion instrument for sample preparation. But unlike those other examples, it’s easy to use and designed with your needs in mind! (To be fair, we’ve never flown the world’s fastest airplane either. But there’s probably a learning curve.)

Accurate XRF samples – the easy way

One reason we’re so proud of our FORJ is that it’s versatile and user-friendly, even across different applications. How? It offers different modes that are suitable for different types of sample preparation – and it’s quick and easy to switch between them, too!

If you’re preparing samples for X-ray fluorescence (XRF), you’ll likely need to use glass disk mode. This will have your FORJ cast the melts into molds of 30, 32, 35, or 40 mm in diameter. Alternatively, you can cast your melts straight into wide, flat-bottomed crucibles of either 32 or 40 mm in diameter.

Of course, the safety mechanism ensures that if molds are not detected, FORJ will not pour the melt – preventing any damage if the molds were to be misplaced.

A mode for every need

For inductively coupled plasma or atomic absorption analyses (ICP/AA), there’s borate solution mode. In this case, the melt is poured into beakers containing your acid solution that are swirled (not rocked!) – thanks to FORJ’s unique sample agitation mechanism. Swirling facilitates the dissolution of your sample, helping the process to go faster and your sample to produce more consistent results.

Highly refractory compounds such as chromite, magnetite, ilmenite, rutile, silicon and silicon carbide can be tricky to work with even with borate fusion – which is why there’s also peroxide fusion mode, also used for ICP/AA. You can use either 25 or 50 ml crucibles to hold your sample, and FORJ makes it straightforward to adapt the parameters.

For samples that need calcination, there’s thermal treatment mode, too – ensuring that FORJ is the strongest link in your analytical chain across a wide variety of processes and material samples!

Switching between modes is quick and simple, with the only task being to change between molds and beakers. In each case, this takes fewer than two minutes – which is often much more efficient than using a separate instrument.

Easier by design

But there’s more – it’s not only FORJ’s different modes that make it straightforward and versatile. The instrument was designed to be as user-friendly as possible based on feedback from our customers and partners. The innovative handling mechanism and non-wetting agent (NWA) pill injector – both patented – are good examples.

In particular, we heard from customers that they need easy installation from their instruments. Setup time is downtime, and for busy laboratories downtime is expensive! One way we addressed this need is by adding a 6-inch duct adapter to FORJ – so, if you have a ducted fume system already, it’s simple to install and connect. This eliminates the need for a canopy hood, making it both easier and cheaper to install. It’s even likely to decrease your laboratory’s energy consumption!

Along with its intuitive user interface and helpful tower light, which signals the instrument’s status from a distance to avoid wasted time, FORJ’s design optimizes ease of use and contributes to a more productive, smoother workflow.

Don’t take our word for it – see for yourself! Book your demo today.

Check out our previous blogs that dig into how FORJ unlocks greater accuracy in XRF measurements, and why it’s your first choice when speed matters.

Alternatively, explore FORJ’s full specifications in the brochure, available here.