Sectors & Services
Sectors
At the James Hutton Institute's Aberdeen site, a number of services from analytical chemistry laboratories, excel at problem solving for extractive industries.
James Hutton Limited works closely with the food and drink industry in a wide range of capacities. Analytical capabilities lend themselves to testing for food provenance, authenticity, contamination and traceability.
Much of the research at the James Hutton Institute leads back to the environment – James Hutton was a leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, an eighteenth century golden age of intellectual and scientific achievements.
The James Hutton Institute’s Dundee site is highly regarded as a world-class centre of crop research and breeding.
Services
Techniques providing quantitative and qualitative analysis of organic and inorganic contaminants / pollutants in a variety of matrices including, but not limited to waters, chemicals and soils.
The James Hutton Institute, and its predecessor organisations, is synonymous with soils with over 90 years experience of working with soils and farmers, as well as being responsible for the National Soils Database for Scotland.
A leading forensic research and analysis service with unparalleled experience in analysis of soils, waters and other ecological/environmental materials.
James Hutton Limited is one of eight European partners of the Water Test Network; an ERDF funded project which supports SMEs in North-West Europe (NWE) to test, demonstrate and develop new products for the water sector.
James Hutton Limited is home to Mylnefield Lipid Analysis, a specialist lipid laboratory established at the James Hutton Institute in 1995 by Bill Christie and Frank Gunstone, renowned lipid analysis experts.
James Hutton Limited can help support work such as harbour construction or enlargement, flood defence systems, construction of new buildings, which will require an MS-LOT licence.
Innovations and resources from the James Hutton Institute, available for your own laboratory or research.
James Hutton Limited manages a number of collaborative projects with industry partners who seek to benefit from scientific research and innovations.
Breeders and scientists at James Hutton Limited and the James Hutton Institute use advanced breeding techniques supported by world-leading scientific expertise, ensuring the most innovative soft fruit and potato varieties.
X-ray Powder Diffraction (XRPD) can be used to identify crystalline substances, such as most minerals. The James Hutton Institute XRPD team are global specialists in the analysis of clay minerals by this technique.
The analysis of a wide range of stable isotopes, bulk and compound specific analysis of light isotopes including, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen and Hydrogen, and heavy isotopes, including Strontium, Neodymium, Samarium and Lead.
FTIR Spectroscopy is an extremely versatile analytical technique which can provide a chemical fingerprint for a diverse range of both organic and inorganic samples.
The multi-disciplinary scientific expertise available at the James Hutton Institute is ideally suited to address issues facing the developing renewable energy sector in the UK and internationally.
Molecular Diagnostic tests can detect specific sequences in plant DNA or RNA that may be associated with disease resistance, quality/agronomic traits and varietal issues.
Electron Microscopy is an extremely versatile tool which allows the study of both morphology and material composition from virtually all areas of science and technology.
Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that involves the development and application of computational methods for the analysis of large-scale biological data ranging.
Latest News
COURSE: Clay Mineralogy and its Application to the Oil Industry
Analysts and researchers from the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen will host a course entitled, ‘Clay Mineralogy and its application to the oil industry’, next month.
Offshore Europe 2019
James Hutton Limited will be at Offshore Europe this year, exhibiting as part of the Scotland Pavilion and highlighting the analytical services we offer for marine sediment analysis, the decommissioning sector and of course, the oil and gas industry as a whole.
Our Next Event
1 Oct 2019 9am - 4 Oct 2019 5pm
The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, Scotland
Designed to deliver an understanding of the nature, properties, behaviour and occurrence of clays in the context of hydrocarbon exploration and production. This popular course ran for the 11th time in 2018.