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Merry Christmas from Torr!
The staff of Torr Scientific would like to thank you for your support and custom during the whole year and are looking forward to working with you in 2022! We wish you a Merry Christmas and a successful, Happy New Year! Please note that our office is closed from...
New Faces at Torr
Adam began his journey with Torr in March 2015 when he joined the team as an apprentice engineer. During this time Adam worked in the cleanroom learning about thin film coatings. He gained a vast understanding of thin film coatings and the systems used at Torr. Sadly,...
Cheers!
As you sup on your beverage of choice this Christmas, be aware that there is ongoing earnest scientific research into getting those bubbles just right, whether it’s the maintenance of fizz (“fizzics”) or the perfect explosive uncorking. Not only are the scientists...
Distributor Spotlight – HISTERESIS
HISTERESIS is one of the most established partners in the Romanian vacuum market, with more than 14 years of experience in the field and solid partnerships spanning the scientific research and industrial sectors. The company was founded in 2007 and commenced...
UK Quantum Exhibition
On the 5th of November, representatives from Torr Scientific manned our exhibition stand at the UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase 2021 at the Business Design Centre in London. There were many Torr products on display on our stand together with information on...
Max Planck Re-entrant Windows
Torr recently designed, manufactured, tested and supplied four special 1700mm long re-entrant viewports to the Max-Planck Institute. These are being installed on the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Greifswald Germany as part of an ongoing system upgrade. Wendelstein...
New Faces at Torr
Torr Scientific would like to introduce you to our new members of staff. Karen Parker, Alexandra Bratu, George Sherwood, John Edwards and Stephen Birkenshaw. Karen was born in Rhodesia and immigrated to UK in 2008 with her 2 children. For the first 6 years she worked...
Distributor Spotlight – CINQUEPASCAL S.R.L.
Torr Scientific and 5Pascal have been in a very strong relationship for many years.It all began with Fabio and Bruno's desire to expand vacuum products portfolio with high-quality partners. 5Pascal was born from Edwards vacuum and together, Fabio Malaterra and Bruno...
Titanium fused silica and sapphire viewports at Torr Scientific.
The boffins in the technical department at Torr have been hard at work developing a range of vacuum brazed titanium viewports.Titanium has some advantages over stainless steel, including lighter weight & being truly non-magnetic, the optics are vacuum brazed into...
New Torr Logo
As you may have noticed already, Torr Scientific has updated its company logo. The main reason was just to modernise it. We wanted it to be up-to-date, but still recognisable, not too far away from the previous one. An external graphic designer was hired for this...
SPIE Photonex + Vacuum Technologies
Torr Scientistic were delighted to attend SPIE PHOTONEX + VACUUM TECHNOLOGIES. Phil Marston and Alexandra Bratu attended on behalf of Torr. This year, SPIE organisers decided to move the Exposition from Coventry to Glasgow. This change combined with the nationwide...
Witch’s Hat
As part of TSL’s ongoing investigation into the relationship between surface flatness and transmitted wavefront error (TWE), we spotted the TWE dataset below whose anomalously high peak has a distinct touch of the Halloween about it. Comparison with maps of surface...