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Actlabs 200,000sq . ft Global Headquarters
Eric Hoffman obtained his PHD as an economic geochemist in 1978 from the University of Toronto and during his time in school he used the neutron activation technique to develop a method for analyzing platinum metals in nickel sulfide ores from nickel mines in Canada . It was when he decided to commercialize this technique that his career took off and he began working with a commercial laboratory in Toronto . He worked at that lab for 9 years and in 1987 , Hoffman decided to branch off and start his own company , Activation Laboratories Ltd ., otherwise known as Actlabs , where he still works as president today . Using neutron activation as its main method for analyzing
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