Member price: $25
Non-Member price: $45
Jorge Gonzalez will welcome guests to Anton Paar’s Central Region office and share an overview of the company’s history, values, and presence in the U.S. market. He will provide insight into how Anton Paar supports a wide range of industries—including manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food, and academia—through reliable measurement solutions and application expertise. Attendees will learn how precision measurement plays a practical role in everyday quality control, research, and production environments. Jorge will also touch on current trends in analytical instrumentation and how Anton Paar continues to adapt to evolving customer needs. He will highlight the importance of collaboration within the German-American business community and the value of partnerships that drive mutual growth. Through a few examples from the Central Region, guests will gain a better understanding of how Anton Paar works closely with customers to solve real-world challenges. The keynote will provide helpful context for the lab demonstrations and facility tour, giving attendees a clearer picture of Anton Paar’s capabilities while encouraging meaningful networking and conversation throughout the evening.
Vice President of Sales and Service, Anton Paar Jorge Gonzalez has worked at Anton Paar for 11 years in a variety of leadership roles where he applies his technical background and collaborative mindset to support innovative measurement solutions. He values precision, continuous improvement, and teamwork, and enjoys working in an international setting where quality and reliability are essential.
Anton Paar GmbH Group Founded in 1922 in Graz, Austria, by Mr. Anton Paar, the company is a global market leader in density and concentration measurement, rheometry and viscometry, and dissolved carbon dioxide determination. Anton Paar also offers cutting-edge technologies, such as Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), particle size analysis, and surface analysis. Anton Paar’s customers include most of the major beer and soft drink manufacturers worldwide, and companies active in the food, chemicals, petroleum, and pharmaceutical industries, as well as leading academic institutions.
Anton Paar GmbH is part of the Anton Paar GmbH Group, which has 40 sales subsidiaries and seven producing sites. The Anton Paar GmbH Group is, in turn, part of the Anton Paar Group AG, owned by the charitable Santner Foundation. The company now employs more than 4,400 people in areas such as research and development, production, sales, and service. In recent years, Anton Paar GmbH has invested up to 14.5 % of its annual turnover in research and development. In 2024, the Anton Paar GmbH Group generated net sales revenue of € 614 million.
In addition to its focus on research and development, Anton Paar’s growth is driven by strategic acquisitions.
In 2007, the company acquired Dr. Kernchen GmbH near Hannover, Germany (specializing in optical metrology; now Anton Paar OptoTec). This was followed in 2012 by the acquisition of the Petrotest Group, Germany (petroleum industry measurement technology; now Anton Paar ProveTec), and in 2014 by CSM Instruments SA, Switzerland (surface analysis; now Anton Paar TriTec). In 2016, Anton Paar acquired a product line of Raman benchtop devices from BaySpec Inc. (California, USA) and licensed handheld Raman technology from SciAps Inc. (Massachusetts, USA). In 2017, the company integrated particle size analysis technology acquired from Cilas (France) into its product portfolio.
Further expansion came with the acquisition of Quantachrome Instruments (USA) in February 2018 – now operating as Anton Paar QuantaTec – and AXO Dresden (Germany) in February 2019, enhancing capabilities in pore and porous material characterization and X-ray optics. Most recently, in 2023, Anton Paar acquired Brabender GmbH & Co. KG (Germany), now operating as Anton Paar TorqueTec, adding specialized solutions for characterizing kneading properties and lab-scale extrusion.
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