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The companies we represent:

A selection of specialist manufacturers offering technologies for the characterisation of materials.

We have recently comprehensively reviewed these and increased the range of products we offer.
But there is a constant, these companies are all technical leaders, innovators that invest heavily in development, research and new products. We hope you will find the new products of as much value as the ones you know well. We will continue the search for innovative instruments, as will our principles who launch updated and new systems.

Malvern Instruments

Malvern Instruments were founded in the 1960's in Malvern, England and shortly after licenced technology to correlate signals; facilitating the very first electronic analysers for use in particulate system characterisation. This grew with new in house technology and market demands for particle sizing to the best known name in our business.

They have direct offices in major countries and distributors worldwide.
We have represented Malvern since 1989 and before that worked with them since 1984.
They are part of Spectris PLC alongside companies like Panalytical, NDC and PMS.
Their market is Material Characterisation with a strong presence in particle sizing.

Malvern's famous brands include the Mastersizer, Zetasizer, Morphologi, Insitec, Kinexus and Viscotek and to many scientists their web resources are the gold standard.

Malvern's corporate HQ in the Enigma Business Park

Micromeritics

Micromeritics were founded by Clyde Orr and Warren Hendrix back in 1962.
They are based in Norcross Atlanta, Georgia USA, with offices in Europe and China and distributors/agents in many other countries. PSL have represented Micromeritics since 1990 and support a large installed user base.

Micromeritics are owned by the founder's families, member of which also administer the company.
They coined the name Micromeritics from the Greek meaning the measurement of particles.
Their brands include Sedigraph, Saturn, Gemini, Tri-Star, Elzone and models ASAP, the Accupyc and the Flowsorb. They recently established the Particulate brand to offer products sourced outside their factory - for niche markets and needs.

Dr Clyde Orr, co-founder of the company

Formulaction

Founded in 1994 by Gérard Meunier in Toulouse in south west France, Formulaction take advantage of the local infrastructure in engineering surrounding Airbus and aviation.

Formulaction have offices in USA and elsewhere deal through agents and distributors.
Particular Science represents Formulaction since 2007 and are increasingly active with the range.

The first product MA1000 allowed formulation chemists to assess the stability of complex systems.
The original concept was proposed in 1983 by Professor Brothorel.
They have since developed a range of Turbiscan instruments, the Horus for film drying and recently introduced the Rheolaser for DWS microRheology and characterising materials at rest.

Gerard Meunier, the founder of
Formulaction, discussing designs

Optical Activity & Index Instruments

Optical Activity was founded 1973 by Harry Norris to design and manufacture optical instruments for the food and pharmaceutical sectors.
Their base since 1978 is Ramsey near Cambridge in England. They established Index Instruments to manufacture Refractometers in 1983 and the two companies are run by Jennifer Horn.

Particular Sciences have acted for Optical Activity and Index Instruments since 2008.
Their brand name and products include PolAAR instruments and ThermoTubes and the GPR range of General Purpose Refractometers.

Ramsey
Cambridge England.

Remspec

Remspec was founded by Dr. Peter Melling and Dr. Mary Thomson in 1993 .
They pioneered the application of infrared fiberoptic technology to in-situ chemical reactions, studying human tissue and solid surfaces.

This was based on work in 1990 at Galileo Electro-Optics; resulting in US patents and Remspec has developed the technology in the decades following.
Remspec started with simple probes and accessory systems and grew to fully integrated turnkey systems optimised for the reaction monitoring customer.
They now offer an unmatched range of temperature, pressure and wavelength performance from their base in Charlton, Massachusetts, close to Boston and its well known technical centres.

Lamy

Lamy Rheology started distributing viscometers and Rheometers in 1957, then moved to designing new models to fill market needs.

Since 2006 Lamy have been designing and manufacturing their own range of viscometry products in their base in Caluire near Lyon in the heart of France.
Lamy distribute worldwide and their entry level viscometers are great value, costing from €3000 complete with accessories and delivery.

Particular Sciences are proud to offer these units, take a look and download the catalogue by following the Lamy Button under the photo.

Surface Measurement Systems
Particular Sciences represent Surface Measurement Systems Ltd in Ireland and Northern Ireland since 2009.

SMS are a UK based company that develops and engineers innovative techniques and instrumentation for physico-chemical characterisation of complex solids.

They are the world leaders in vapour sorption technology and solutions, providing professional scientific and technical support to all customers.

By carefully controlling, measuring and analysing the physicochemical interaction of vapours with solid samples such as powders, fibres and films, SMS can help solve problems in research and development, such as stability studies and drying performance, through to manufacturing & quality control.

SMS Application lab in London

Biolin Scientific

Biolin Scientific and Particular Sciences joined forces in April 2010 and we now represent all but their dental implant products.

Biolin Scientific corporate headquarters are in Gothenburg in Sweden with staff and bases in Stockholm (Sweden), Helsinki (Finland), Coventry (UK), Maryland (USA) and Shanghai (China).
In other countries Biolin distribute through companies like ourselves, to the nanotech and materials customers.

Biolin's main technologies are in the production of monolayers and the characterisation of surfaces and surface interactions. Their brands and famous products include KSV, Attension, Qsense, Theta, Sigma and now Farfield Instruments.

Microfluidics Corporation

Microfluidics Corporation in 1983 introduced a unique technology for particle size reduction in a flowing system. They are in Newton, Boston, Mass. availing of the technical infrastructure of the area. They have a base in Lampertheim near Frankfurt with a team of specialists and engineers ready to support customers worldwide.

Microfluidics offer high shear particle reduction technology will be an ideal match with our expertise in measuring Nano particles in suspension. Many customers size reduce by milling or classic homogeniser systems. This offers a different approach, one that is scalable to process levels.

Their newest technology is MRT, a system that reacts two fluid streams under pressure and shear; to limit the size of any resulting crystals.

Shear cells from lab to process

Sequoia Scientific

Sequoia Scientific began operations in 1995 and are now based in Seattle (WA) in the USA.
Their mission is to develop scientific instruments for research of and into environmental monitoring.

Sequoia deal through some agents worldwide, with most business in the US with government contracts and research associations.

They produce unique instruments, not just splash proof or watertight; but submersible in some cases down to 6000m.
Their most recent accolade is an instruction by the EPA that their LISST product MUST be used to monitor the dispersion of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico...following the BP drilling rig accident and disastrous leak of oil.

AstraNet Systems

AstraNet Systems is a specialist supplier of UV Visible spectrophotometers for laboratory, industrial or process control.

Based in Newton, Cambridge England their products have found application right round the world.

Their expertise in ultra-violet, visible, near infrared and short wave infrared spectrophotometers, fluorimeters, radiometers and reflectance probes based around fibre-optic-coupled CCD-array (FOC-CCDA) technology, leads to effective and robust solutions to numerous applications.

The product that attracted our interest first was the novel AstraGene that can test the concentration and purity of DNA samples (2 microlitres inside a disposable pipette). For a video of AstraGene in a working lab follow this link.

Ray Wood and Mike Mills of AstraNet at Pittcon 2011

   Bionavis

BioNavis Ltd was established in 2006 to develop, manufacture, supply and support Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) based instruments and biosensors for research and diagnostics.

SPR instruments are mainly targeted to research of molecular interactions, and are used by researchers in physical chemistry, biochemistry, pharmaceutics, biotechnology, and medical diagnostics.

The SPR Navi 200 was developed in collaboration with Dr. Janusz Sadowski who has been the main driver in the research of SPR technique at VTT for over 20 years, and Dr. Ulf Jönsson, the founder and former CEO of Biacore, the company that pioneered the use of SPR spectroscopy for protein interaction analysis.

BioNavis Ltd is based in Tampere – Finland – and provides worldwide distribution and local customer support via its fully trained and capable global network of distributors...including of course Particular Sciences.

Izon

Izon are an innovative company from New Zealand who specialise in nanotechnology measurements.

The basis of Izon’s instrumentation is a unique - a dynamically tunable nanopore technology platform which utilises a technology called SIOS (Scanning Ion Occlusion Sensing). This technology platform is world-leading in offering an affordable, robust and highly flexible technology for real-time particle detection, quantitation and characterisation of individual particles at the nanoscale, across a wide range of applications. These applications include sizing, size distribution measurement, concentration analysis and real-time particle-particle interaction monitoring.

The plastic device in the photo has a 0.100 micron pore in the centre of the circular area and this is stretched between the precision clamps of QNano system to wider diameters as required.

Like most technologies Particular Sciences offer, we have a demonstration and sample evalutaion capability...so if you would like to size and or count nano particles in suspension...let us try it for you.

postnova analytics

Postnova analytics are based in Landsberg west of Munich, Germany and in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

They are world leaders in Field Flow Fractionation technology (FFF) and especially in Asymetric Flow FFF.

This is an ideal technology for separating nano particles and biotech materials prior to analysis by DLS or SLS and complements Zetasizer SEC in flow mode for those who want a flexible and powerful system.

Postnova Analytics provide advanced analytical solutions based on Field-Flow Fractionation (FFF) and Static Light Scattering (SLS) as well as Analytical Supply Products (ASP). These products are backed up by excellent customer service and are offered to scientists around the world working in quality control (QC) and research & development (R&D). FFF-LS technology is applied to separate and characterize biopolymers, synthetic macromolecules, proteins, antibodies, liposomes and nanoparticles in order to determine molar mass, particle size and branching/conformation. Postnova offers modular and completely integrated hardware, software and service solutions.