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Welcome to Torr Scientific

We are specialists in UHV, optical and X-ray components

Please check out our catalogue for more information about our products

Supplier of vacuum components

 

Torr Scientific Limited is an innovative UK based company that brings together a unique range of expertise, skills and equipment from the fields of thin film vacuum coating, vacuum instrumentation and electron-optics, to service the world’s leading scientific research institutions, universities and OEM manufacturers of industrial and medical testing equipment. We provide international shipping worldwide. We have sales agents in Australia, New-Zealand, Canada and US, distributors in Brazil – South America, Mexico – Central America, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Romania – EU, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and Türkiye – Asia.

The company manufactures, repairs and refurbishes X-ray anodes, lead-free UHV viewports and processes anti-reflective coatings. Torr Scientific was established in 1998 and the employees of the company have many years of experience in the UHV and Electron-Optical industries.

High quality components and instrumentation are manufactured in cleanroom conditions and facilities include vacuum furnaces, TIG welding, helium leak testing, e-beam and sputter coating systems, a glass shop and high-end optical test equipment.

Please browse this website for further details about Torr Scientific’s large range of UHV viewports, custom and standard anti-reflective coatings in-house and X-ray & Electron Optical components.

Product divisions

We are excited to announce a new collaboration which has successfully been awarded funding from the UK’s national innovation agency Innovate UK! Our project, QTEAM: Quantum Technologies Enabled by Additive Manufacturing, will demonstrate the use of Additive Manufacturing to produce lightweight and power-efficient space gravimeters that use quantum properties to provide highly accurate measurements of variations in gravity.

 

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See Us At: Forthcoming Torr Exhibitions

See Us At: Forthcoming Torr Exhibitions

You can visit the Torr Scientific stand at the forthcoming exhibitions where we will be happy to answer any questions that you may have. We will have a range of products on display and technical advisors ready to assist.22 October 2026STFC DaresburyDaresbury...

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Our Bank Details Are Changing

Our Bank Details Are Changing

In September 2026 Torr Scientific changed its banking arrangements from HSBC to NatWest. Customers should therefore be aware that future payments to Torr Scientific will need to be made using our new NatWest account details. We will communicate any changes to payment...

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Accounting Apprenticeship Success

Accounting Apprenticeship Success

Recently our Accounts Apprentice Max Pritchard completed his apprenticeship with East Sussex College in Hastings! This was a Level 3 Assistant Accountant course and he is now starting level 4. Max joined Torr Scientific in November 2023 and started his apprenticeship...

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New Inspection Technology – Keyence IM-X Machine

New Inspection Technology – Keyence IM-X Machine

A key part of both our goods inwards and outwards procedure here at Torr Scientific is our internal inspection. This is a process where we review both the cleanliness of a product, as well as comparing the physical part to the engineering drawing. Each of these...

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Engineering for an ISO250 zinc selenide

Engineering for an ISO250 zinc selenide

As a vacuum-focused engineering company, we regularly work on bespoke assemblies for our customers; where they reach out with an idea and we make it come to life! Recently, one of those such cases was from a customer requesting a large zinc selenide vacuum viewport....

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Polarization

Polarization

Polarization: sine your life away This time round, I present you, my loyal readers, with an interactive graphic for your fascination and delectation. I was looking at a book on optics and how the oscillating electric field of light can be linearly, circularly or...

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