Company Overview
International Isotopes Inc. (INIS) together with its wholly-owned
subsidiary, International Isotopes Idaho Inc., has been in businesses since
1995. INIS is focused upon providing the best customer service and highest
quality products in the marketplace today. The INIS headquarters,
manufacturing operations, and Fluorine Products Division are all currently
located in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
The INIS business consists of five major business segments which
include:
- Nuclear Medicine Reference and Calibration Standards
- Cobalt Products
- Radiochemical Products
- Fluorine Extraction Process Products
- Radiological Processing Services
The following paragraphs provide a bit of detail on each of the business
segments. Please also refer to the Products and Services page of the
website for more specific information on individual products.
NUCLEAR MEDICINE REFERENCE AND CALIBRATION STANDARDS
This segment consists of the manufacture of sources and standards associated
with SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography), patient positioning,
and calibration or operational testing of dose measuring equipment for the
nuclear pharmacy business. These items include flood sources, dose
calibrators, rod sources, flexible and rigid rulers, spot markers, pen point
markers, and a host of specialty design items. There are over 5,000 nuclear
medicine centers around the country that require these types of products on a
regular repeat basis. We have been manufacturing these products since 2001 and
have continued to grow this business at an annual rate of approximately 12% per
year. The nuclear pharmacy business has been growing, and is anticipated to
continue to grow, at an annual rate of about 5%. INIS is an exclusive
manufacture of these products for RadQual LLC and additional information on any
of these products can be obtained directly from the RadQual website
(www.radqual.com).
COBALT PRODUCTS
INIS manufactures a wide range of teletherapy and experimental irradiator
capsules. These are sealed sources verified to meet the appropriate standards
for sealed sources which include ANSI/HPS N43.6-1997 and ISO-2919:1999(E).
INIS also produces its own high and medium specific activity bulk cobalt (1 mm
x 1 mm nickel plated pellets) and offers recycling services of expended cobalt
sources. The INIS ability to manufacture and recycle cobalt sources will
provide the customer with flexibility and competitive pricing. For additional
information on our Cobalt products please refer to the Product
Specification sheet.
RADIOCHEMICAL PRODUCTS
INIS manufactures and distributes various high quality radiochemicals for
medical, industrial, or research applications. These products are tailored for
individual customer needs and packaged per customer requirements. The list of
available isotopes includes;
- Cobalt-60 (Co-60)
- Cobalt-57 (Co-57)
- Cesium-137 (Cs-137)
- Iodine-131 (I-131)
- Sodium-22 (Na-22)
- Barium-133 (Ba-133)
FLUORINE PRODUCTS
INIS acquired seven patents for the Fluorine Extraction Process (FEP) in
January 2004 and has been constructing a high purity fluorine gas production
and analysis facility. INIS plans to use this technology to produce several
high purity fluorine products, such as germanium tetrafluoride. High purity
fluorine gases are in ever-increasing demand for ion-implantation or chemical
vapor deposition processes for microelectronics components and high-speed
silicon chip manufacture. The FEP fluorine product is expected to be very high
purity which makes it ideally suited to these specialty applications, where
ultra high purity gas is required. In addition, we anticipate that the
production costs of FEP products will be low in comparison with ultra pure
fluorine products manufactured by other common commercial methods enabling us
to effectively compete with existing high purity fluorine product suppliers.
INIS expects to complete plant construction and begin fluorine gas production
in 2006.
RADIOLOGICAL PROCESSING SERVICES
This segment concerns a wide array of miscellaneous services including:
- Radiological Engineering and Health Physics consultant services
- Type A package design and certification testing
- On Site Radioactive Shipping Services
- Sealed Source Wipe Test Kits, Analysis, and Results Reporting
OUR QUALITY ASSURANCE
INIS has a well developed Quality Assurance program which has been verified
to meet the standards of ANSI/AMSE NQA-1. All of our products are manufactured
in accordance with cGMP and customer specifications. The Company is a
participating member of the National Institute of Standards and
Technology/Nuclear Energy Institute’s (NIST/NEI) Measurement Assurance Program
for the radiopharmaceutical industry and is a registered manufacturer of class
I medical devices with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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