Torr would like to introduce their newest employee, Edward Wilson. Ed graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a BSc in product design and modern materials. In the 10 years since his graduation, he has since been working within the vacuum industry where he has...

Torr were recently commissioned to produce some special windows for CERN.  The windows were welded into a pre-machined body and then subjected to a high-pressure test. The application for the windows is the Beam-Gas-Curtain instrument (wepb16.pdf (cern.ch)). The LHC...

TSL would like to offer our condolences to the family and colleagues of Professor Emeritus H. Angus Macleod, a giant of the thin-film world. Angus published many papers and books and was a founding partner, along with his wife Ann, behind Thin Film Centre, a family...

Torr Scientific offer a range of Infrared vacuum windows using a range of materials.  One such material is potassium bromide (KBr).  Under standard conditions KBr is a white crystalline powder, but it can also be manufactured in optical blanks which can be ground and...

Torr scientific has many global distributors which includes our friends on the opposite side of the planet - Australian Vacuum Services (AVS). Headed up by Andy Taylor and Laurens Willems, they both have a vast knowledge of ultra-high vacuum and nanotechnology...

Work is ongoing at TSL to better understand and characterize the LIDT (laser-induced damage threshold) of our coated viewports and optics. We currently specify a CW (continuous wave) threshold of 500 W cm-2 at 530 nm. For each individual customer requirement, this...

Torr Scientific would like to welcome our new members of staff. Starting from the right we have; Maisie-Rose Coleman, Alex Vanbergen, & Paul Pringle.Maisie-Rose has joined us under a government apprentice scheme, she is currently working in the purchasing...

Torr Scientific attended a virtual meeting held over 2 days in March.Organised by the Department for International trade, the Science and Technolgy Facilities Council, & CERN.The inspiration behind the meeting was to introduce members of CERN to UK businesses and...

Torr have manufactured customised re-entrant viewports in a wide range of sizes, lengths, mounting flanges, and optical materials.The re-entrant viewport is used to insert a device directly into the vacuum system whilst it remains at atmospheric pressure.This allows...

Torr Scientific has recently invested in a new shadowgraph profile projector for the factory.It will be used by our inspectors to check a wide variety of parts quickly and accurately, saving time and improving productivity. The shadowgraph works like this: A beam of...

In the twelve months between September 2019 and August 2020, Torr Scientific manufactured over 5,000 viewports.These were on a variety of different flanges combined with a variety of materials. The most popular flange size was NW40KF, and the most popular material was...

Towards the end of 2020, with our previous UV-vis-NIR (ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared) spectrophotometer nearing the end of its useful life, TSL took the decision to invest in a high-end replacement from Agilent. In December 2020, our new Agilent Cary 5000...