Introduction
The Mosaic Company helps the world grow the food it needs. From Mine-to-market, Mosaic works to minimize their negative impacts on the environment and maximize the value they deliver to diverse stakeholders around the globe.
Mosaic's products - from performance fertilizers designed to provide advanced crop nutrition, to top-quality commodity offerings - are optimized to take advantage of today’s most advanced agrochemicals through plant genetics, crop protection and equipment technologies.
We asked our customer, Trace Yates, Ph.D. Head of Laboratories - North America at The Mosaic Company, key questions. His background as a chemist is very diverse, involving everything from instrument design to lab management, from sol-gel chemistry to asphalt analysis to food chemistry.
Workflow Highlight
How are you innovating with analytical solutions to meet your workflow needs?
Our labs need to be known for maintain to maintaining high levels of accuracy to consistently meet a standard we have set for impurities detection - within 1%. We need this data and fast, to keep our mining operation moving the raw materials to the right places to keep our operation running smoothly and to keep our advanced manufacturing business producing their desired chemical blends.
Manufacturing needs our data to be as accurate as possible so they can predict what type of quality fertilizer they are going to be able to produce with the raw materials. Our workflow achieves and maintains this standard with our analytical solutions.
What challenges or hurdles have you overcome with PerkinElmer solutions?
On the mining side of our business, we are generating massive amounts of data that is not extremely time sensitive.
On our chemicals production operations, operations need the data in timeframes that pose a big challenge. Our PerkinElmer Avio® Max ICP-OES technology is the only way we can generate these amounts of data at the high-quality levels we need, and fast. Because we need the ICP-OES for this specific need, our workflow also employs PerkinElmer LAMBDA™ UV/Vis for data that is needed less immediately. PerkinElmer’s Spectrum™ NIR instruments are integral in releasing product at our Potash facilities in a very timely manner. Our workflows are loaded with the right solutions to keep us running 24/7, 365 days a year, so downtime is not an option.
Why did you choose to partner with PerkinElmer?
- The PerkinElmer value means a lot to us after cycling through various vendors.
- We love the service - this helped the decision to stay with PerkinElmer as a Global Vendor.
- The commitment to support the instruments post sales in important to us.
- With several sides to our business, like mining, chemical manufacturing labs and final product lab testing, quality, and commitment to that quality through support is critical for us.
Which PerkinElmer solutions are you utilizing?
ICP-OES, UV/Vis, ICP-MS, NIR, and a host of accessories and consumables
