Genalysis is now into its 30th year—a milestone which in itself is a great achievement.
Genalysis was founded in 1975 in Perth, Western Australia by directors Terry and Tena Wheeler to offer a personalised analytical service to the mineral exploration industry in Australia. Terry relied on his excellent grounding and experience as Chief Chemist with Western Mining Corporation at their Kambalda Nickel Operations.
Terry, as Managing Director, heads a team of dedicated staff (more than 200) with most of the key personnel having 10-20 years service with the company and/or industry experience. This team must be regarded as one of the most competent in the industry anywhere in the world.
Together they have earned for Genalysis a reputation for quality and service with all of its Australian based clients, as well as clients from more than 65 other countries. Genalysis has always offered the best advice on analytical options to its clients, and the “old fashioned”, personalised service still exists today which makes Genalysis so different from its competitors.

The management of Genalysis would like to thank all its past and present clientele as well as its numerous staff members who have made Genalysis the success it is. Without all of the support from those in the
exploration industry Genalysis would not have been able to operate so successfully and have the reputation it has attained over the years. So once again, thank you all for your continued support and belief in quality analysis.

Genalysis is proud to announce that in co-operation with Perkin Elmer Australia we will be introducing two new Elan 9000 units to the existing fleet of PE instrumentation. The new Elan 9000 ICP-MS
system simplifies ICP-MS by providing an easy-to-use, easy-to-maintain tool for routine ultratrace level analysis. These instruments have excellent detection limits, high sample throughput, and the stability required to meet the heavy loads required by the mining and exploration industry.

The new instruments feature a dual inlet turbomolecular pump and improved cooling systems. An integrated peristaltic pump with tubing saver dramatically reduces sample uptake time, improving productivity beyond normal working hours. Other features such as the new “torch-mount cassette” and “SwiftMount II” quick change lens mount combined with the CETAC ASX520 auto-sampler with extension sample trays, the new instruments are expected to provide the most efficient analytical tools available.

This will give Genalysis a total of five ICP-MS instruments and four ICP-OES instruments. This increase in
instrumentation is intended to give a signficiant increase in throughput. Genalysis has also signed a 2 year service contract with Perkin Elmer Australia to provide extended maintenance and service support to minimize instrument down time. With these contracts in place, Genalysis can expect to have the high quality of Perkin Elmer service required to keep their instruments operation peak, and thus keeping “the jobs flowing”.

Genalysis has much pleasure in announcing that they have recently placed an order for a fully automated robotics sample preparation system from IMP.

This significant investment will form phase one of a multi phased project to automate many of the sample preparation and analytical procedures currently being carried out manually. This Australian first system will be  installed and commissioned later this year at the new Genalysis Perth property, 16 Davison Street.

IMP is a leading designer and supplier of automated laboratory equipment - visit their website at www.impgroup.com.au.
We believe that this system will alleviate some of the labour intensive areas within Genalysis and help our
systems become more streamlined.