Bruker Nano Surfaces

Bruker Nano Surfaces provides industry-leading surface analysis instruments for research and production. Our broad range of 2D and 3D surface profiler solutions supply the specific information needed to answer R&D, QA/QC, and surface measurement questions with speed, accuracy, and ease.

Bruker’s AFMs are enabling scientists around the world to make discoveries and advance their understanding of materials and biological systems. Our tribometers and mechanical testers deliver practical data used to help improve development of materials and tribological systems. Our 3D optical microscopes and profilers, based on more than 30 years of Wyko™ technology, provide the flexible imaging and measurement capabilities for comprehensive, accurate characterization of surfaces.  Bruker’s UMT mechanical testers are comprehensive and versatile systems for investigating tribology — friction, wear, load, hardness, and lubrication.  Our metrology and test solutions help engineers and manufacturers better understand how their materials and parts will perform in real-world applications.

Industry-leading quantitative nanomechanical and nanotribological test instruments are specifically designed to enable new frontiers in nanoscale materials characterization, materials development, and process monitoring. And with our nanoIR technology, Bruker is now the world leader in photothermal IR spectroscopy from the nanoscale to the sub-micron and macro scales.

Whatever your surface measurement and surface analysis needs, whatever your material or scale of investigation, Bruker has a specialized high-performance solution for you.

Thinky Corporation

THINKY was founded in 1971 as a company manufacturing digital measurement i nstruments.
We made inexpensive display devices using LEDs. THINKY's products proved to be highly popular, and by 1991 grossed over JPY890 million in sales.However, with the collapse of Japan's Bubble Economy in 1991, sales of industrial measuring instruments rapidly slowed.It was at this point that the company stumbled across a bright idea when one of the company directors heard from a dentist about a difficult issue in the dental industry.With this idea in mind, THINKY developed mixers for dental paste used for fillings and artificial teeth.(For details, please see "Secret Story of Development.")The mixer garnered praise not only from the dental industry, but from a variety of other fields as well, including the ointment industry. As a result of this success, THINKY shifted its core business to producing mixers.

Postnova

In 1966 Field-Flow Fractionation was invented by Prof. Calvin Giddings at University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. He was a highly respected scientist and outstanding personality who published a over 300 scientific articles and several books in the area of Field-Flow Fractionation (FFF) and in general separation science as well. Later Prof. Giddings was also twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1984 and in 1994 showing the outstanding level and impact of his unique esearch activities.

In order to systematically study the Field-Flow Fractionation effect, he founded the FFFresearch Center at the University of Utah in 1972 which acted as a source for hundreds of FFF papers and where Giddings and his co-workers step by step developed the complete theory of Field-Flow Fractionation and all sub-techniques. In this FFFresearch Center Prof. Giddings and Dr. Marcus Myers designed and engineered the first real FFF prototypes which later have been used as templates for the commercial product development.

Anton Paar France

Anton Paar develops, produces and distributes highly accurate laboratory instruments and process measuring systems, and provides custom-tailored automation and robotic solutions. It is the world leader in the measurement of density, concentration and CO₂ and in the field of rheometry. Anton Paar GmbH is owned by the charitable Santner Foundation.

Verder Scientific

The Scientific Division of the family owned VERDER Group sets standards in high-tech equipment for quality control, research and development of solid matter. The fields of activity cover sample preparation of solids as well as analyzing technologies.
Our well-known companies have served research institutions, analytical laboratories as well as manufacturing companies in quality control and process applications for many decades with ever more sophisticated and reliable products which offer the solution to their individual task.
VERDER SCIENTIFIC products can be found in a number of industries including aerospace, agriculture, chemicals, construction and environment, energy, food, geology and metallurgy, material science, pharmaceuticals, scientific research and development and many more.
The VERDER SCIENTIFIC Division has around 800 employees worldwide, generating a turnover of €190 million and working with passion and expertise to develop and manufacture products as well as provide services for state of the art scientific applications. This combined with the will to respond to ever new requirements builds the foundation of our success.