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headquarters llantrisant wales uk products thermal desorption instrumentation & accessories time of flight mass spectrometers & accompanying software website www.markes.com markes international headquartered in the uk develops and manufactures scientific instruments for thermal desorption and time of flight mass spectrometry . markes factory technical centre and headquarters is near cardiff uk and in 2011 they expanded this and their usa operation in cincinnati ohio markes international inc. adding extra laboratory and demonstration facilities . in 2013 markes became a company of the schauenburg international group 1 and opened a technical centre near frankfurt as part of their german operation markes international gmbh . on 21 april 2015 it was announced that markes international has been honoured with a queen s award for enterprise in the international trade category . 2 contents 1 application areas 2 innovations 3 awards 4 references 5 see also application areas edit the company s products are used in a variety of application areas including environmental monitoring the detection of hazardous chemicals in air water and soil . 3 homeland security detection of chemical warfare agents 4 food analysis quality control & safety 5 fragrance and aroma profiling material emissions tobacco analysis petrochemical fingerprinting environmental forensics 6 breath sampling for disease diagnosis 7 8 innovations edit markes holds patents for a number of technological innovations including the design of a novel soft electron ionisation source 9 awards edit select ev variable energy ion source technology was awarded fourth place in the 2014 the analytical scientist innovation awards tasias 10 select ev variable energy ion source technology received an honourable mention at the pittcon editors awards in 2014 . queen s award for enterprise in the international trade category 2015 . 11 references edit german firm buys majority stake in specialist producer wales online january 2013 queen s award for enterprise wales millennium centre a trio of top firms and an enterprise expert honoured wales online april 2015 m.a. parra d. elustondo r. bermejo and j.m. santamar a ambient air levels of volatile organic compounds voc and nitrogen dioxide no2 in a medium size city in northern spain science of the total environment 2009 407 999 1010 w. a. carrick d. b. cooper and d. muir retrospective identification of chemical warfare agents by high temperature automatic thermal desorption gas chromatography mass spectrometry j. chromatogr . a 2001 925 1 2 pp. 241 249 j. fischer t. haas j. leppert p. schulze lammers g. horner m. w st and p. boeker fast and solvent free quantitation of boar taint odorants in pig fat by stable isotope dilution analysis dynamic headspace thermal desorption gas chromatography time of flight mass spectrometry food chem . 2014 158 pp. 345 350 s.j. rowland a.g. scarlett d. jones c.e. west and r.a. frank diamonds in the rough identification of individual naphthenic acids in oil sands process water environ . sci . technol . 2011 45 7 pp 3154 3159 award winning breath sampler for solvents designed by the health and safety laboratory july 1999 j.w. dallinga et al. volatile organic compounds in exhaled breath as a diagnostic tool for asthma in children clinical and experimental allergy 2010 40 68 76 an analytical apparatus utilising electron impact ionisation patent wo 2014128462 a2 return of the tasias queen s award for enterprise wales millennium centre a trio of top firms and an enterprise expert honoured wales online april 2015 see also edit scientific instrument thermal desorption time of flight mass spectrometry retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title markes international & oldid 736264986 categories companies of wales1997 establishments in walescompanies based in rhondda cynon tafinstrument making corporationsmanufacturing companies established in 1997welsh brandshidden categories articles with topics of unclear 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