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…
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…
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,…
New 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.…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
São 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.…
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…
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…