Recycling
Recycling can be a demand from customers as well as a necessity to stay competitive. However, recycling introduces the danger of carrying through weakened materials or other issues from old products into new ones. With methods that look into materials and see their compositions in detail it is possible to track and describe defects that may hide below the surface – thus separating low quality from high quality recyclables, which in turn minimizes the risk of recycling significantly. Analysis techniques relying on X-rays has this ability, offering an enhanced toolbox for “green” innovation.