|Articles|December 1, 2014

Spectroscopy

  • Spectroscopy-12-01-2014
  • Volume 29
  • Issue 12

International Crystal Laboratories

Company Description

ICL is a fully integrated materials technology and sampling accessories manufacturer of IR crystal optics and FT-IR spectroscopy sampling accessories. It is the only US manufacturer of KBr, NaCl, and KCl crystals. ICL's robust, corrosion-proof gas cells and other high quality gas analysis accessories are the industry standard. ICL is a highly regarded vendor to instrument manufacturers and has received numerous honors such as "Vendor of the Year" from instrument manufacturers for on time, defect free product deliveries. ICL is engaged in R&D projects with major research laboratories, including ongoing projects with Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Chief Spectroscopic Techniques Supported

  • IR

  • FT-IR

  • UV–vis

  • Fluorescence

  • XRF

Markets Served

ICL supplies a broad range of optics, supplies, and accessories for spectroscopy to end-users, dealers, catalog vendors, and instrument manufacturers worldwide. Customers can access ICL's products on-line, through extensive catalogs, and a network of more than 75 dealers who service customers in most markets throughout the world.

Major Products/Services

ICL products enable spectroscopists to make the most out of modern spectroscopic instruments. Products include IR crystal optics; KBr powder; liquid and gas transmission cells; long path gas cells; cuvettes for UV–vis, NIR, and fluorescence spectroscopy; solid sampling accessories such as mills, mortars and pestles, lab presses and dies for making KBr pellets for IR spectroscopy, and briquets for XRF spectroscopy.

Facility

ICL provides customer support at our state of the art manufacturing plant in Garfield, New Jersey. We maintain several FT-IR and UV–vis spectrophotometers for product quality control. Our plant is serviced by a 150 kWh backup generator which guarantees that we are able to be productive at all times, including 100% on line time during Hurricanes Irene and Sandy.

International Crystal Laboratories
11 Erie Street
Garfield, NJ 07026

TELEPHONE
(973) 478-8944

FAX
(973) 478-4201

E-MAILiclmail@internationalcrystal.net

WEB SITEwww.internationalcrystal.net

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
27

YEAR FOUNDED
1962


Related to this article

Highlights from What’s Nu October 2026
In this Q&A, we recap the October edition of “What’s Nu,” which covered topics such as how novel spectroscopic and analytical methods are transforming environmental monitoring, medical treatment, and accessibility in scientific research.
Education distance learning, e-learning, and online learning are all types of personal development. | Image Credit: © ipuwadol - stock.adobe.com
In this segment of our SciX interview with Kevin Wilkinson, a professor of environmental chemistry at the Université de Montréal, discusses extending lead isotope work to greater distances and explains why graduate students need adaptability, critical judgment, and coding skills more than expertise in any single instrument.
Atoms Don't Lie–The Remaking of Atomic Spectroscopy, © Hallie -chronicles-stock.adobe.com
Atomic spectroscopy has quietly gone from counting elements in bulk to counting single nanoparticles, imaging tissue at the micrometer scale, and reading Martian rocks from several meters away. The instruments got smaller, the software got smarter, and the questions they can now answer got a lot more interesting.