New Castle, Delaware, USA. March 7, 2016 – TA Instruments is pleased to introduce a new line of Differential Scanning Calorimeters, the Discovery DSC2500, DSC250, and DSC25. These instruments feature enhanced sensing technologies resulting in unprecedented performance in baseline flatness, sensitivity, resolution, and reproducibility, reaffirming TA’s position as the technology and global leader in thermal…
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New Castle, Delaware, USA. January 18, 2016 – TA Instruments announced today that the ElectroForce Systems Group has moved to a new facility in Eden Prairie, MN. The new facility is almost 30% larger than the previous space and is located in the Golden Triangle area at 9625 W. 76th Street, Eden Prairie, MN. It…
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New Castle, Delaware, USA. November 19, 2015 – TA Instruments introduces the new TAM IV and TAM IV-48, the world’s most sensitive, stable, and flexible microcalorimeter systems. The TAM IV is a completely modular design that combines the highest heat flow sensitivity with unmatched long-term temperature stability for measuring processes that are undetectable by other…
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New Castle, Delaware, USA. October 1, 2015 – TA Instruments is pleased to announce the latest recipient of the “Distinguished Young Rheologist” award: Dr. Ruth Cardinaels, Assistant Professor in the Polymer Technology Group at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands). Dr. Cardinaels employs in-situ and time-resolved structure characterization techniques in combination with diagnostic flow types.…
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New Castle, Delaware, USA. September 24, 2015 – TA Instruments introduces an all new system for characterization of magneto-rheological (MR) fluids. The Magneto-Rheology Accessory for the Discovery Hybrid Rheometer enables parallel plate and cone-plate rheological measurements under the influence of a controlled field at temperatures as high as 170 °C and fields as high as…
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New Castle, Delaware, USA. June 5, 2015 – TA Instruments introduces an all new system for advanced microscopy under flow. The Modular Microscope Accessory (MMA) for the Discovery Hybrid Rheometer enables simultaneous high resolution optical microscopy with precise control and measurement of flow. Flow visualization is important in the evaluation of complex systems such as…
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New Castle, Delaware, USA. May 26, 2015 – TA Instruments today announced the acquisition of certain assets related to the Bose ElectroForce Group, from the Bose Corporation of Framingham Massachusetts. The Bose ElectroForce group manufactures dynamic mechanical testing systems, used to characterize Medical Devices, Biologic, and Engineered materials. The ElectroForce test instruments are based on…
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New Castle, Delaware, USA. March 9, 2015 – TA Instruments introduces the Affinity ITC Auto, a new isothermal titration calorimeter for characterizing a wide variety of molecular interactions, including protein-protein binding, drug-ligand binding, small molecule-receptor interaction and enzyme kinetics. The Affinity ITC Auto is a fully automated, ultrasensitive isothermal titration calorimeter. This automated ITC is…
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New Castle, Delaware, USA. December 2, 2014 – TA Instruments announced the two latest recipients of the company’s Distinguished Young Rheologist award: Dr. Kendra Erk, Assistant Professor of Materials Engineering at Purdue University and Dr. Kelly Schultz, Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Lehigh University. Dr. Erk and Dr. Schultz…
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New Castle, Delaware, USA. January 30, 2014 – TA Instruments today announced the acquisition of LaserComp (Saugus, MA). LaserComp, a privately held company, is an industry-leading manufacturer of thermal conductivity test instruments. LaserComp heat flow meters and guarded hot plate systems are capable of measuring thermal conductivity on a wide range of samples, over a…
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New Castle, Delaware, USA. January 30, 2014 – TA Instruments today announced the acquisition of Expert System Solutions, ESS (Modena, Italy). ESS is a privately held company that designs and manufactures innovative non-contact optical thermal analysis instrumentation. Key products from ESS include optical dilatometers in horizontal and vertical orientation with simultaneous DTA measurements, heating microscopes,…
DetailsNew Castle, Delaware, USA. December 17, 2013 – Dr. Cécile Monteux of Ecole Supérieure de Physique Chimie Industrielle de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI) is the most recent recipient of the Distinguished Young Rheologist award presented by TA Instruments. Dr. Monteux is a CNRS researcher whose work is focused on the dynamics of liquid interfaces.…
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New Castle, Delaware, USA. September 30, 2013 – TA Instruments today announced the acquisition of Scarabaeus Mess- und Produktionstechnik GmbH (Wetzlar, Germany), a privately held manufacturer of instrumentation and software for physical property measurements of rubber and rubber processing. Terry Kelly, President of TA Instruments commented on the acquisition: “This market is a natural fit…
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New Castle, Delaware, USA. January15, 2013 – TA Instruments is pleased to announce the latest recipient of the “Distinguished Young Rheologist” award: Dr. Randy H. Ewoldt, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Ewoldt and his group study rheology with a combination of experiment,…
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New Castle, Delaware, USA. December 03, 2012 -TA Instruments has presented the Distinguished Young Rheologist Award to two scientists: Dr. Anson W. K. Ma, of the University of Connecticut, and Dr. Ali Mohraz, of the University of California, Irvine. The Award cited Dr. Ma’s current work on interfacial rheology of nanoparticle-laden interfaces for stabilizing emulsions,…
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New Castle, Delaware, USA. July 25, 2012 – TA Instruments is pleased to announce our second recipient of the “Distinguished Young Rheologist” award: Dr. Kyu Hyun, Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at Pusan National University, South Korea. Award recipients are peer nominated by a group of the most established…
DetailsSão Paulo, Brazil. May 7, 2012 – TA Instruments announced today the commencement of direct local sales, service, and support operations in Brazil. TA Instruments will soon open an office in São Paulo, which will be a base of operations for sales, service, and applications personnel in the country, as well as local order processing.…
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New Castle, Delaware, USA. April 25, 2012 – TA Instruments is pleased to announce our new “Distinguished Young Rheologist” award program. Our first recipient is Dr. Matthew E. Helgeson, Associate Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of California Santa Barbara. Award recipients are peer nominated by a group of the most established…
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New Castle, Delaware, USA. February 15, 2012 — TA Instruments today announced the acquisition of BÄHR Thermoanalyse GmbH (Hüllhorst, Germany), a privately held manufacturer of high performance, high temperature thermal analysis systems. Commenting on the acquisition, Terry Kelly, President of TA Instruments said, “This acquisition adds powerful technologies which complement TA Instruments’ market leading thermal…
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