Company Announcements

In November 2013, ATAC acquired Research Equipment London, a lab cone and plate viscometer firm.

Micromeritics acquired in November 2013 PoroTechnology, a provider of mercury injection capillary pressure rock property data.

For the fiscal year ending September 28, 2013, MTS Systems reported that Materials Testing orders within its Test segment were flat.

Evergreen Medical Technologies and Bose’s ElectroForce Systems Group partnered to enhance the testing of medical devices, especially implantable devices.

Brendan C. Hegarty retired from MTS Systems’ Board in November 2013.

FRITSCH Milling and Sizing opened a second subsidiary in China. It is located in Shanghai.

Spectro exclusively licensed Lockheed Martin’s LaserNet Fines (LNF) fluid imaging and classification technology. Spectro will develop and manufacture new offerings based on the desktop, off-line version of LNF. LNF is currently a component of Spectro’s LNF Q200 analyzer.

Grabner Instruments named SPECTRO South Africa, a subsidiary of SPECTRO Analytical Instruments, its exclusive distributor for Sub-Saharan Africa.

Product Introductions

Quantachrome introduced in October 2013 the Quadrasorb evo Surface Area and Pore Size Analyzer, featuring up to four simultaneous and independent analysis ports and a dedicated transducer.

Malvern Instruments launched two new models of its Kinexus line of rotational rheometers, the Kinexus pro+ and Kinexus ultra+, which extend the range and robustness of test conditions that can be applied.

In November 2013, PerkinElmer introduced the TMA 4000 thermomechanical analysis system for measuring thermal expansion in electronic materials and other products, and for detecting harmful materials.

NETZSCH released the DSC (differential scanning calorimeter) 214 Polyma, optimized for polymers. It features the Arena furnace for heating and cooling rates up to 500 K/min, and simplified measurement preparation.

In December 2013, PAC released the IRIS software globally for integration of instrument data from its systems.

Micromeritics introduced the 3Flex Surface Characterization Analyzer, a three-station instrument capable of physisorption, mesopore, micropore and chemisorption.

Mettler-Toledo launched the EasyMax HFCal (heat flow calorimeter), a small-scale reaction calorimeter.

In February, IKA introduced the C 6000 bomb calorimeters: the C 6000 isoperibol, which allows for the choice of isoperibolic and dynamic modes; and the C 6000 global, which can operator in adiabatic, isoperibolic or dynamic modes.