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Lumex Ltd. R&D and Production Company was founded
in October 1991 as a joint-stock company with limited liability
by a team of research staff members of the world-famous Vavilov
State Optical Institute and the Positron Corporation. Presently,
the Lumex key personnel are scientists, engineers, and designers
who came from St. Petersburg State University, Technological
Institute, State Institute of Applied Chemistry, and from
other leading R&D institutions of Russian Academy of Sciences
and industrial companies. To date, there are about 400 research,
production and administration staff members on the Lumex payroll.
Most of them are highly qualified experts in optical engineering
and analytical chemistry, a winner of the State Prize, three
doctors of science and 34 holders of Ph. D. degrees being
among them.
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Lumex occupies more than 6000 sq. m of production, laboratory,
and office areas located at two premises in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Lumex has been operating at the marketplace of analytical
equipment for arbitration and technological chemical analysis since
1992. Up to now, more than 5000 Lumex instruments have been supplied
to various customers worldwide, the export share of the overseas
sales as of 2001 being about 10% of the total sales volume. The
sales of the Lumex luminescence analyzers amount to 47%
of the relevant market segment in Russia.
Along with the continuous upgrading of our products and substantial
extending their range,this resulted from our active advancement
in marketing and expanding the dealer and service center network,
which presently has been established in many major cities throughout
Russia, from Kaliningrad in the west to Vladivostok in the east,
and in capital cities in Ukraine, Byelorussia, and Kazakhstan. Since
1998, we have extended our trade connections to the USA, Canada,
EU countries, Poland, Czech Republic, China, Korea, India, and some
other countries. Overseas
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All the analytical instruments and most of the proprietary analytical
techniques developed and produced by Lumex are certified in compliance
with the State Standards and are entered into State Registers of
the Russian Federation and some FSU countries. The standards and
regulations based on Lumex developments set forth the techniques
for analyses of more than 90 chemical compounds in gaseous, liquid
and solid samples. One third of all the techniques approved for
the use in the environment protection system of the Russian Federation
have been developed at Lumex.
Lumex had been certificated in 1999 for the compliance with the international standard ISO 9001/94 by "AFAQ-ACERT International" (France) and "ACERT Bureau" (Russia) which was accredited at DAR/TGA (Germany). Company have obtained, in 2004, the certificate of compliance of the quality management system with the new version of international standard ISO 9001:2000. Having obtained, in 2007, the certificate of compliance of the quality management system with the international standard ISO 9001:2000, Lumex again has proved its capability to provide high-quality solutions of customer's problems. The certificate is issued by "ACERT Bureau" and is recognized by all the IAF and MLA country-members. The scope of the certified quality management system has been made more exact and covers design, development, production, delivery, sales, servicing of measuring and analytical equipment for separation analysis, luminescent analysis, infrared spectroscopy, mercury analysis, atomic absorption spectrometry, microwave sample digestion and also supporting application methods.
Range of products
Lumex develops and distributes throughout the world a wide
range of laboratory and automatic analytical instruments of more
than 20 types of its proprietary design for scientific and industrial
research, process and environmental control, providing its high-tech
analytical instruments with a comprehensive methodological support
and extensive training of customer's personnel. A wide variety of
our analytical instruments, pertaining to:
are primarily intended for and are widely used in the following
applications:
- environment monitoring
- technological quality control
- educational and research laboratories
- sanitary inspection
- analysis of beverages, food products and fodder
- clinical diagnostics and biochemical analysis
- forensic investigations
The high skills and broad experience of our personnel and collaborators
are implemented in the state-of-the-art analytical equipment, which
gains demand worldwide due to its high quality and performance,
competitive price, reliable service and prompt response to specific
customer's problems. Moreover, the users are supplied with
various certified analytical application manuals, which are also
being developed and drawn by our research staff.
We believe that any analytical laboratory will find an efficient
low-cost solution of its problems in the wide range of our customized
and well supported analytical equipment.
The R&D activities being carried out by Lumex research staff
involve not only the above well established areas, but also extend
to some promising advanced projects, such as the development and
design of a time-of-flight mass spectrometer for elemental analysis
using pulsed gas-discharge ionization of dry solution residues in
a thin-walled metal hollow cathode, whose prototype has already
been built and will soon be put on the market, and working on the
orders of some highly reputed overseas companies for the development
and design of new techniques and equipment for gas chromatography
and IR food analysis. Since recently, Lumex has undertaken research
in hydraulics, having prototypes of advanced hydraulic motors and
pumps of proprietary novel design, which show great promise and
may be a breakthrough in this technology area.
Presentations, exhibitions, and scientific conferences
These events, in which Lumex products are regularly displayed and
leading staff members take part, not only play an important role
in promoting our products and R&D activities, but also serve
as a source of wide information dissemination and exchange, keeping
us in touch with our regular and potential customers.
Some of the major international events in which Lumex took part
are listed below.
Since 1998 - International Pittcon Conferences and Exhibitions
on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, which were held
in New Orleans (1998, 2000-2002) and Orlando (1999), USA.
Since 1997 - Exhibition of Instrumental Analysis (China).
Since 1998 - Conference on Capillary Elctrophoresis (Germany)
Since 1999 - 5th and 6th International Conferences on Mercury
as Global Pollutant (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 1999 and Minamata,
Japan, 2001).
Since 2000 - Analytica Trade Fairs, Munich, Germany.
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