Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. will announce its new coating thickness/coating weight measurement technology at IMTS 2008 (8-13 September 2008), McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, Booth # D4431. Thermo Fisher Scientific is a manufacturer of handheld x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzers. The handheld Thermo Scientific Niton XL3t 800 XRF analyzer, already known for its positive grade identification and composition analysis of alloy and metal coatings and substrates, now will offer the benefit of coating thickness and coating weight measurement, providing an out of the box, nondestructive solution for gauging the effectiveness of coating and plating systems. The instrument will perform at line and plating bath solution analysis. Users will get precise multilayer coating thickness results in seconds. Testing at the plating line means increased productivity and improved process efficiency, eliminating over-coating or under-coating. Further, because the Niton® XL3t can measure irregularly shaped samples as well as small-diameter wiring or tubing, there is no longer a need to cut samples for benchtop analysis.