Company presentation EDUCATION ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS MATERIALS CHARACTERISATION LASERS, LIGHT DETECTION & SPECTROSCOPY RADIATION DETECTION
Gammadata | Improving Science Scientific and business pedigree Amongst our owners, in particular of course those With that in mind Gammadata has in recent years active within the company, scientifjc pedigree goes rebalanced it’s business functions to deliver a world- hand in hand with business competence. Our business class service organisation on top of the core business has matured into a fjnely tuned operation focusing for which we made our name after the Chernobyl on what we do best: providing customised system disaster. In 2010 the management of Gammadata solutions and instruments in applied nuclear physics, Instrument AB acquired the business from Gammadata optical spectroscopy, materials characterisation and Holding AB and established Gammadata Instrument as for natural science education. an independent company. An eye on the future – Service and Innovation To better serve our current and future customers with Collaborations with vendors and customers forged innovative products and service support, Gammadata over many years, be they academic, governmental or is constantly exploring new markets and technologies industrial, enable us to pre-empt innovational demand as well as developing our own products where we see when addressing internal R&D and service support opportunities for advancement. contracts. Before we can serve our future customers, we have As well as developing and deploying new products to educate them. That is why we apply the same level that push the envelope of science as a ”leading edge” of service and innovation to our Education platform rather than a ”me too” company, we pledge a level as we do to our commercial, research and industrial of service that adds real value to product life cycle customers. (PLC). This has always been the modus operandi at Gammadata.
A word from our CEO Many people reading this brochure will already know of This company presentation should go some way to us, trust in us and want us on their side. For those of highlighting what we do and the way that we do it. you who don’t know what Gammadata Instrument AB I like to think that we do a pretty good job. represents, you need only consider the following. We are a Swedish company with a predominantly Hopefully you will too. Nordic focus but with sales and servicing contracts all over the globe. Our values are borne out of a culture Dag Sedin of innovation, academia and integrity that stand for peaceful resolution, a desire to help wherever we can and above all the self-made requirement to deliver the very best in quality assured innovation. You may be a school requiring laboratory equipment, or a University research department analysing laser spectroscopy techniques. You may be a commercial business investigating and developing industrial processes or you may be a government equipping a nuclear facility or a weapons forensics team. Whatever you are, we aim to inspire you and amaze you with the potential of science at its’ best.
Gammadata | Improving Science It all started with Henri Becquerel Chanterelles & Becquerel Since the discovery of radiation in 1896 by Frenchman Focusing on fjve core markets that encompass everything Henri Becquerel and his colleagues the Curies, man from education and research to environmental evaluation has learnt to respect the phenomenon of radioactivity. and confmict management, we are a company that was Whenever he has lifted the lid on its awesome power, founded in response to a global crisis. A quarter of a intentionally or otherwise, the results have been dramatic century later we are still poised to react … and to help and global. In 1986 something happened that shook the avoid these major disasters, but we are equally active world and changed the way we perceived the security of in the education and enablement of both civilian and our planet forever. In Sweden, the home of Gammadata, governmental organisations in their efforts to drive it all started not with a mushroom cloud, but a small, positive change for global good. orange mushroom. The chanterelle. We continue to deliver fmexible and innovative thinking applied to the development of state of the art solutions, This is Gammadata instrumentation and services. Our academic credentials, Gammadata Instrument AB is a leading supplier of tools, contacts and knowledge base are recognised throughout instrumentation and tailor made solutions in the fjelds of the Nordic region and the instruments we develop or Nuclear Physics, Analytical Instrumentation, Photonics choose to work with, are way ahead of their time. and Natural Science Education. We can see the future of science and we’re working to improve it, every single day. EDUCATION ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS MATERIALS CHARACTERISATION Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852 – 1908) LASERS, LIGHT DETECTION & SPECTROSCOPY Physicist, Nobel laureate RADIATION DETECTION
Well connected Gammadata was born in an Uppsala University Uppsala University is the oldest university in Sweden, laboratory in 1986 and continues to acquire and founded in 1477. It ranks among the best universities in share knowledge with Universities all over the Northern Europe as well as worldwide. world through ongoing personal and business The Faculty of Science and Technology is highly relationships. Of the thirty or so employees at regarded internationally and has turned out some of the Gammadata, fjve are PhD’s and the majority of the most acclaimed scientists and innovators of our time, remainder hold science degrees at MA, BS or BA including several Nobel laureates. level. image credit: David Naylor / Uppsala Universitet
Gammadata | Improving Science A place in history April 26 th ,1986 was the day that all hell broke loose in The SAUNA System was put to the test on October 9 th Chernobyl and subsequently, around the world. It would 2006 when North Korea conducted a covert nuclear leave a radioactive legacy not just on it’s own doorstep weapon test. A mobile version of SAUNA was sent to but also spread itself over a huge area of northern South Korea and detected radioactive xenon gas, which Europe and further afjeld, borne on the winds of a proved that the explosion was nuclear. On October Siberian spring. 14 th the United Nations security council responded with resolution 1718 by which North Korea must “abandon This disaster was on an unprecedented scale and it all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programmes in required an unprecedented and immediate international a complete, verifjable and irreversible manner”. response. Gammadata was born. The scientifjc rapid response teams and the devices that Another signifjcant milestone in the history of our Gammadata deployed back in the 1986 and 2006 crises company came in 2003 when Gammadata Instrument are still in service today, the world over. The same, but was asked by the Swedish Defence Research Agency improved. (FOI) to redesign and commercialise a system for measuring airborne radioactive xenon gas. Xenon is the Gammadata continues to operate in the upper echelons only radioactive element released to the atmosphere of science with a service orientated organisation, as during ‘covert’ nuclear detonations, so detecting and it has done for over a quarter of a century. The values investigating xenon emissions is a global security priority. upon which Gammadata was built all those years ago remain unchanged. Our intent to go out into the world Over the course of only one year, Gammadata amongst our peers and provide an unprecedented redesigned, built and commercialised the SAUNA degree of service and innovational thinking is as strong System (Swedish Automated Unit for Noble Gas now as ever before. Acquisition). This was the start of a relationship with That’s why we truly believe we are Improving Science. CTBTO (Prepatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization) that would lead to the installion of a world-wide network of sensors.
Food for thought Reindeer pasture land in northern Sweden was Nearly 10% of all emitted radioactive caesium from contaminated with radiocaesium 137 Cs and 134 Cs the Chernobyl accident fell on Sweden. The need so this mission demanded not only immediate, arose to measure and check the safety of livestock extensive and accurate action nation-wide, but and crops in Sweden and a group of researchers also high levels of experience and expertise in from Uppsala University was enlisted by the Swedish nuclear physics and data processing. government to take charge of these vital tests.
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