Materials Testing Equipment  Manufacturers, Traders, Suppliers

MTS Systems Corporation is the premier global supplier of mechanical test systems and industrial position sensors. Test engineers and researchers rely on MTS technology and expertise to accelerate and improve design, development and manufacturing processes. High performance MTS testing products are deployed around the world to meet material, component, system and structural testing needs across a broad spectrum of industries, including biomedical, civil engineering, consumer products, automotive and aerospace. MTS' high-performance position sensors provide controls for a variety of industrial and vehicular applications.

Buehler is a manufacturer of metallographic testing equipment including scientific instruments & supplies for cross-sectional material testing. Buehler’s sectioning, mounting, grinding and polishing, imaging and analysis and hardness testing metallographic equipment along with consumables are used by metallurgical, metallography, petrography, research & development, university laboratories, quality control departments and failure analysis facilities for the analysis of all types of materials, including ceramics, composites, semiconductors, metals, rocks and minerals, and plastics.

As a worldwide leading manufacturer of optical and digital precision technology, Olympus provides innovative solutions for state-of-the-art medical systems, digital cameras and scientific solutions.
The company’s award-winning products are instrumental in detecting, preventing and healing illness, driving scientific research and documenting life with artistic freedom.

BAQ GmbH is operating in the field of material testing since 1992. The product range covers stationary and portable hardness testers (Vickers, Rockwell, Brinell, Shore, impact hardness and ultrasonic contact impedance (UCI) method) as well as devices for testing layer thickness, abrasion resistance, scratching resistance and coating adhesion strength. These devices are used in all areas of material testing, e.g. inspection of incoming goods, production, research and development. More than 25 years of experience and continuous cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films and others as well as in-house development and production in Germany guarantee good quality and optimal service. BAQ also offers optimized solutions for special requirements.

TAURUS – in a nutshell

• Our team comprises 26 motivated and engaged employees with extensive know-how, who like to think outside the box to find the optimum solution for your requirements.
• Our office is suited in the “heart of Germany”, Thuringia, Weimar.
• TAURUS Instruments was founded in 1990.
• We are working together with 17 distributors in more than 80 different countries.

and that is why we are …
Innovative through experience
TAURUS Instruments AG is one of the leading manufacturers of physical and optical measuring systems for industrial and research applications worldwide. We develop, manufacture and market state-of-the-art thermal conductivity measuring devices, hotbox test stations and fire testing systems for materials testing and quality control.
Always at your service
In close cooperation with our customers we also develop customized solutions in the fields of Thermal Conductivity Measurement and Fire Testing, guaranteed to meet their specific requirements while at the same time complying with the relevant international standards.
With our various service offerings we ensure that our customers receive competent help and support whenever needed, enabling them to use our products to their full potential.
Spanning the globe
Our extensive network of partners and distributors enables us to sell our products and services worldwide. Currently a wide range of international research institutions and industrial customers in the fields of materials testing and quality control successfully use products from TAURUS Instruments, benefiting from our many years of experience.
We take pride in our company’s history, which started in 1990 when it was founded as a spin-off
from the Institute for Building Materials of the former Berlin-based German Academy of Architecture.