Partners
The FRITSCH company (Idar-Oberstein, Germany) is synonymous with technical competence and economical efficiency in all matters in the field of milling, particle sizing and dividing/feeding. Since more than 80 years now, the company is concentrating on three product groups and identified with the brand names of "pulverisette", "analysette" and "laborette" in all processing laboratories in research and industry.
Netzsch Gerätebau GmbH (Selb, Bavaria, Germany), a business-unit of the Netzsch group, offers thermoanalytical instrumentation for the analysis and characterization of raw materials and products within the scope of research, development and quality assurance.
The Netzsch group, with a consolidated turnover close to 200 MEUR and approximately 1800 employees active in 4 business-units (Thermal Analysis, filtration, grinding and dispersing, pumps), is based in the beautiful town of Selb at the heart of the German Porcelain industry.
For over 65 years Brookfield Engineering Laboratories (Middleboro, MA, USA) has been the world's leading manufacturer of Viscosity Measuring Equipment for laboratory and process control applications. There are more Brookfield viscometers used today worldwide than any other viscometer, making it the World Standard in viscosity measurement.
Brightwell technologies, based in Ottawa, Canada, is a company that develops develop image-based, particle analysis technology. Brightwell's flagship product is Micro-Flow Imaging or MFI. Since it was first commercially introduced, MFI products have been sold to a worldwide set of customers representing environmental, industrial, life sciences and pharmaceutical industries.
Altimet, based in the beautiful Thonon-Les-Bains on the French side of the Lac Léman, is developer and manufacturer of the ALTISURF surface metrology product lines. The Altisurf analyzers are multisensor platforms for optical probes (confocal, interferometric, CCD camera, triangulated laser..) and mechanical probes (traditional and microforce). Altimet is also market leader in the non-contacting optical CLA-technology. This measurement technology is quickly becoming the new standard in 3D surface metrology.
The ElectroForce® Systems Group of Bose Corporation provides materials testing equipment to research institutions, universities, medical device companies and engineering companies worldwide.
The ElectroForce linear motor enables a revolutionary alternative to traditional testing systems because of its simple, durable, moving-magnet design. It uses a friction-free, flexure suspension for exceptional fidelity and precision. As a result, ElectroForce test instruments set a new standard for performance and elegant simplicity in a single test system.
TINIUS OLSEN (Horsham, PA, USA) is a leading manufacturer of electromechanical and hydraulic material testing machines. The company also develops a broad range of polymer testing equipment like MFI, pendulum impact and HDT-VICAT testers.
Teledyne Tekmar is a leading manufacturer of analytical instruments for chemical laboratories amongst which several Total Organic Carbon (TOC) and Total Nitrogen (TN) Analyzers. A wide range of parts, accessories and service compliments these product lines.
Since its founding more than one hundred years ago the Parr Instrument Company (Moline, IL, USA) has been engaged exclusively in the manufacture and sale of combustion bombs, calorimeters, chemical reactors, pressure vessels and related equipment developed specifically for laboratory use.
Grabner Instruments (Vienna, Austria), founded by Dr. Grabner in 1987, is a leading company in the development and maufacturing of instruments for petroleum testing. Some well known products are:
- MINIVAP (vapor pressure tester series)
- MINIFLASH (flash point tester series)
- IROX (FTIR gasoline analyser)
- MINIDIS (automatic truly portable D86 Minidistillation)
Colloidal Dynamics Inc (Warwick, RI, USA) has a strong product offering for characterization of colloids.
The ZetaProbe is an to use, accurate zeta potential analyzer available. Samples can be measured without dilution or sample preparation.
The AcoustoSizer IIs provides thorough characterization of concentrated colloidal dispersions: directly measuring particle size, zeta potential, pH, conductivity, and temperature.
Farfield Sensors Limited (Manchester, UK) is a global supplier of analytical instruments for protein characterisation, an area of intense interest to life scientists across a wide range of industries. Farfield’s proprietary technology is the first that is capable of revealing the intimate, yet complex, relationship between structure and function in biological molecules in real time, at market-leading levels of sensitivity and resolution. Application areas include structural and functional proteomics, biomolecular interaction studies, drug discovery, diagnostic development and biopharmaceutical analysis.
Thermal Hazard Technology (Bletchley, UK) manufactures and distributes the world's benchmark adiabatic calorimeter, the re-engineered Accelerating Rate Calorimeter, plus the EV-ARC and Battery Safety Calorimeters.
THT is featuring several new products including the Micro Reaction Calorimeter, Macro Reaction Calorimeter and the Rapid Screening Device. THT also sells the Cheminform suite of software for analysis of thermal hazard data and reactor optimisation.
Hot Disk Inc. is located in Uppsala, Sweden and specialises in the development and supply of equipment and software for measuring thermal transport properties.
The company is developing, manufacturing and marketing products for measuring Thermal Conductivity, Thermal Diffusivity and Specific Heat Capacity.
Ray-Ran, based in the UK near Birmingham, has been a leading manufacturer of polymer testing equipment for over 30 years. The Ray-Ran product range covers equipment for testing of raw materials, testing of finished products and sample preparation.
Rubotherm Präzisionsmesstechnik (Bochum, Germany) develops, produces and sells measuring instruments and laboratory plants for process engineering. Rubotherm specialises in gravimetric measuring methods for recording mass changes under controlled environments and on gravimetric measuring methods where magnetic suspension couplings are used for contactless weighing of samples. By means of the new magnetic balances it is now possible to weigh samples in nearly all environments with utmost precision. Apart from numerous special 
- Sorption measurement = material transport
- Density measurements = state quantities of fluids / density of porous material
- Thermogravimetry = investigation of chemical reactions
CPS Instruments Inc. is a US based company and manufacturer of high resolution particle size analyzers in a range of 0.003 μm up to 20 μm by ultracentrifugal sedimentation.
Precisa, based in Dietikon Switzerland, developes and manufactures well known balances with Swiss quality and precision. Precisa's innovation enables the company to offer the very latest in advanced analytical and semi-micro balance technology, in terms of electronics, mechanics and user-friendliness, at extremely attractive prices.
HiTEC ZANG is specialised in producing high performance customer specific equipment for laboratory, process-development, pilot plant and small scale production.
Because of their functional variety and their simple handling, Hitec Zang systems are established as a standard in measuring, control, regulation and observation.
Established in 1979 and based in Herzogenrath, Germany, HiTEC ZANG has delivered many systems to the large chemical industry.
Since 1995 Provac (Balzers, Liechtenstein) supplies accessories and consumables for the preparation technology of electron microscopy. A detailed catalogue leaves hardly anything to desire and the comprehensive product range of accessories and consumables as well as systems for electron microscopic preparation and vacuum technique considerably simplifies the work for newcomers and professionals.
