Workshop on high energy X-ray scattering at the APS

SPring-8 has been successfully increasing the use of its cutting-edge facilities by industrial researchers and continuously improving the system for supporting new users when carrying out experiments. The most important factor contributing to this success is the synchronicity of both the appointment of new staff and the implementation of new propulsion programs. As a result, nearly 300 research proposals were accepted in 2006 from industries in various fields, such as electronics, materials, life science, energy and the environment, and the beamtime assigned to industrial use was about 20% of the total user beamtime.