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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.

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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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New Faces at Torr

New Faces at Torr

Robin Cullander Here at Torr, we have recently welcomed Robin, as our new Hermetics Specialist. Robin joins us with 23 years of experience in the vacuum industry! His role means that he is responsible for the TIG welding, as well as assisting with leak-testing,...

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Sussex Chamber of Commerce

Sussex Chamber of Commerce

Torr Scientific Limited recently joined the Sussex Chamber of Commerce as a new member. This membership will provide TSL with more networking opportunities with other local businesses, access to business support services and international trade support. It also offers...

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Exhibition Report – Vacuum Symposium

Exhibition Report – Vacuum Symposium

This June we attended the Vacuum Symposium at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. The event is designed around promoting science, technology and engineering, specifically for the vacuum technology industry. It also reached niches within the...

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More Surrey Success

More Surrey Success

Mark Baker, Professor of Surface Science and Engineering at University of Surrey, has been awarded the 2026 Harry Leck Memorial Medal by Vacuum Symposium UK. The medal is awarded, in the words of its official website, for “distinguished contributions to British...

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Nature Adores a Vacuum

Nature Adores a Vacuum

The idea of horror vacui (Latin for ‘horror of the vacuum’) is widely attributed to Aristotle from the 4th century BCE (though the internet tells me that Aristotle would not have been speaking Latin). Horror vacui is usually expressed in English as ‘nature abhors a...

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Nano-Textured Products

Nano-Textured Products

Nano‑textured optics for removing reflection Random nano-texturing for fused silica grades across the ultraviolet and infrared spectrum is the latest innovation for reducing reflection rates within optical and laser grade viewports and quantum cells. This is an...

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