Company Announcements

NETZSCH Instruments North America formed a collaboration with the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to develop an isothermal calorimeter to test the performance and safety of large-format Li-ion batteries.

In April, Izon Science announced a distribution agreement with HORIBA Scientific for France.

Malvern Instruments and NETZSCH Grinding & Dispersing announced in April a cooperative marketing agreement. NETZSCH will standardize on Malvern’s particle sizing and characterization equipment.

In May, MTS Systems announced the opening of an office in Stuttgart, Germany for its Test business.

MTS Systems appointed Chung Hung (Kenneth) Yu and David D. Johnson to its Board in June. Mr. Yu is vice president, Global Channel Services and Special Projects, International Operations at 3M, and Mr. Johnson is executive vice president, treasurer and CFO of Molex.

Product Introductions

Mettler-Toledo launched the TGA 1 thermogravimetric analyzer, stating it is the only system on the market that measures up to 50 million resolution points continuously down to 0.1 µg for a 5 g sample weight.

In June, Mettler-Toledo introduced the OptiMax HFCal heat flow calorimeter for easy, rapid characterization of a chemical reaction’s heat-related information.

NETZSCH introduced the new DMA 242 E Artemis dynamic mechanical analyzer, which offers over 30 different sample holders.

In February, Anton Paar released the affordable Abbemat 200 benchtop refractometer.

Brookfield Engineering introduced the DV2T and DV3T viscometers, featuring touchscreen control.

CPS introduced the Dynamic Balancing Module for its centrifuge-based particle size analyzers. It allows users to balance the centrifuge disc back to factory specifications.

Tinius Olsen launched the FH-30 and the FH-31 hardness testers, which employ a load cell–based, closed-loop force feedback system with automatic load setting. The FH-31 features an LCD touchscreen.

In April, Shimadzu introduced the general purpose DSC-60Plus Series differential scanning calorimeters, featuring a cooling chamber and built-in autosampler.

Hosokawa Micron introduced the Viblette VBL for lab wet sieving and particle size measurement of fine powders, with the ability to do 10 µm screening.

In May, Micromeritics launched the TriStar II Plus, a fully automated, three-port surface area and porosity analyzer, which can collect up to one thousand data points as well as record fine details of the isotherm.

PAC launched the Alcor JFTOT 230 Mark IV jet fuel thermal oxidation analyzer, featuring enhanced safety features and simplified operational capabilities.