On January 1, 2019, the measuring technology company Anton Paar opens a subsidiary for sales and service in Taiwan. With the new location in Taipei, the Austrian producer of more than 170 high-quality measurement solutions moves closer to its customers.

To strengthen activities in Taiwan and provide the best and immediate support via Anton Paar specialists, Anton Paar GmbH established a subsidiary in Taipei: Anton Paar Taiwan Co. Ltd. Following the cooperation with the distribution partner Hammer Trading that started in 2003, from January 1, 2019, Anton Paar Taiwan exclusively distributes and services all Anton Paar products on the local market. Friedrich Santner, CEO of Anton Paar: “A direct presence in a market offers lots of new possibilities for Anton Paar. The sales and service forces are completely focused on Anton Paar products. A well-equipped demonstration lab is standard in any Anton Paar subsidiary allowing for extended customer training and application support.”

Anton Paar Taiwan is located in Nangang District in Taipei. "On our 500 m² location, the instruments can be tested first-hand. Furthermore, our experienced team is offering application seminars and immediate service to our customers," Allen Wu, managing director at Anton Paar Taiwan, says.

Founded in 1922 in Graz (Austria) by Anton Paar, the company is the market leader in the measurement of density and concentration, the determination of dissolved carbon dioxide, and in the fields of rheometry and viscometry. Additionally, Anton Paar offers measurement solutions for optical analysis (polarimetry, refractometry, Raman spectroscopy); petroleum properties (flash point, plasticity, consistency, and more); particles, pores, and surfaces (including atomic force microscopy, X-Ray scattering, Zeta potential, particle size determination). Microwave technologies and process instrumentation complement Anton Paar’s product portfolio. The company’s customers include most of the major beer and soft drink manufacturers worldwide as well as companies active in the food, chemicals, petroleum, and pharmaceutical industries.

Once established as a one-man locksmith’s workshop, Anton Paar strives to combine high-precision manufacturing with the latest scientific achievements; the Anton Paar GmbH invests 20 % of the annual turnover in research. More than 170 analytical solutions are developed and produced almost exclusively within the company.

Today, the Anton Paar Group is active in more than 110 countries with 31 sales subsidiaries and seven producing sites in Europe and the USA. Meanwhile, more than 3100 employees in a worldwide network of research and development, production, sales, and support are responsible for the quality, reliability, and service of products made by Anton Paar. Since 2003, the Charitable Santner Foundation is the owner of Anton Paar. It is dedicated exclusively and directly to charitable purposes. In 2017, the company generated a net sales revenue of 309 million Euro.

Besides focusing on research and development, Anton Paar’s growth is also based on strategic acquisitions. In 2007, the company acquired Dr. Kernchen GmbH near Hannover (Germany, now Anton Paar OptoTec, special field optical metrology) followed by Petrotest Group (Germany, Anton Paar ProveTec, unique field measurement technology for the petroleum industry) in 2012, and the addition of CSM Instruments SA in Switzerland in 2014 (Anton Paar TriTec, particular field surface analysis). Investing in the modernization of all these businesses, the number of employees, as well as the local turnovers, has been multiplied. In 2016, Anton Paar acquired a product line of Raman benchtop devices from BaySpec Inc. (USA, CA) and licensed the technology for Raman handheld instruments from SciAps Inc. (USA, MA). In 2017, Anton Paar integrated technology for particle size analysis bought from Cilas (France) into the product portfolio. With the acquisition of Quantachrome Instruments (USA, now Anton Paar QuantaTec) in February 2018, Anton Paar further expanded its range of measurement technology in the characterization of pores and porous materials.