Asylum Research Opens a Sales and Support Office at Oxford Instruments US Headquarters in Concord, MA
January 24, 2019 -- (Santa Barbara, CA) Oxford Instruments Asylum Research, the technology leader in atomic force microscopy (AFM), is pleased to announce the opening of a new sales and support office to better serve AFM users in the eastern United States. The new office is co-located within the established Oxford Instruments United States headquarters in Concord, Massachusetts. The site features a new demonstration lab with Asylum’s high-performing microscopes including the Cypher VRS Video-Rate AFM and the MFP-3D Origin+ AFM. The new facility will be used for sales demonstrations, customer training, and regional technical workshops.
“From our beginning, Asylum Research has been focused on providing the very best sales, applications, and service support in the industry—whether your lab is down the street from our Santa Barbara factory or on the other side of the world,” commented Jeff Jones, Global Vice-President of Sales at Asylum Research. “We are opening this new facility in Massachusetts to make that world-class support stronger and more accessible to our ever-expanding customer base and our future customers.”
The Oxford Instruments Massachusetts office is centrally located among the highest density of research universities in the United States, the largest biotechnology cluster in the world, and easily within reach of customers on not just the east coast, but also the Midwest and South. Asylum Research’s AFMs are widely used in myriad research fields in both academia and industry, including polymers, biotechnology, microelectronics, and all manner of advanced materials.
“We’d like to welcome Asylum Research to our facility,” said Brian Dutko, Group Commercial Director, Oxford Instruments, Concord US Headquarters. “Asylum AFMs are an excellent addition to the extensive range of products at this office, which also includes Andor microscopes and cameras and NanoAnalysis tools for SEM, TEM and FIB. There’s no better place to learn about leading nanotechnology tools.”
About Oxford Instruments Asylum Research
Oxford Instruments Asylum Research is the technology leader in atomic force microscopy for both materials and bioscience research. Asylum Research AFMs are widely used by both academic and industrial researchers for characterizing samples from diverse fields spanning material science, polymers, thin films, energy research, and biophysics. In addition to routine imaging of sample topography and roughness, Asylum Research AFMs also offer unmatched resolution and quantitative measurement capability for nanoelectrical, nanomechanical and electromechanical characterization. Recent advances have made these measurements far simpler and more automated for increased consistency and productivity. Its Cypher™ and MFP-3D™ AFM product lines span a wide range of performance and budgets. Asylum Research also offers its exclusive SurfRider™ AFM probes among a comprehensive selection of AFM probes, accessories, and consumables. Sales, applications and service offices are located in the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, France, India, China and Taiwan, with distributor offices in other global regions.
About Oxford Instruments plc
Oxford Instruments designs, supplies and supports high-technology tools and systems with a focus on research and industrial applications. Innovation has been the driving force behind Oxford Instruments' growth and success for over 50 years, and its strategy is to effect the successful commercialization of these ideas by bringing them to market in a timely and customer-focused fashion.
The first technology business to be spun out from Oxford University, Oxford Instruments objective is to be the leading provider of new generation tools and systems for the research and industrial sectors with a focus on nanotechnology. Its key market sectors include nano-fabrication and nano-materials. The company’s strategy is to expand the business into the life sciences arena, where nanotechnology and biotechnology intersect.
This involves the combination of core technologies in areas such as low temperature, high magnetic field and ultra high vacuum environments; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance; x-ray, electron, laser and optical based metrology; atomic force microscopy; optical imaging; advanced growth, deposition and etching.
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Terry Mehr, Manager, Marketing Communications, 805-696-6466, terry.mehr@oxinst.com
