TESCAN

TESCAN, a.s.

Company type	Joint stock company
Industry	Scientific and technical instruments
Founded	17 July 1991
Headquarters	Brno , Czech Republic
Number of locations	3 (2010)
Area served	Global
Products	Scanning electron microscope
Revenue	1,715,682,000 Czech koruna (2016)
Operating income	143,448,000 Czech koruna (2016)
Net income	92,887,000 Czech koruna (2016)
Total assets	3,114,946,000 Czech koruna (2016)
Number of employees	150 (2010)
Subsidiaries	TESCAN Brno TESCAN China TESCAN USA
Website	www.tescan.com

TESCAN, a.s. is a Czech Republic company which was founded in 1991 by several R&D and service engineers from a former and now non existing company, Tesla Brno. Its headquarters is located in Brno, Czech Republic, moreover Brno is considered as traditional city where electron microscopy was and now still is located.

TESCAN's line of products is mainly focused on scanning electron microscopes from a wide range of thermal emission systems, LaB6 systems, and field emission systems to dual beam systems.

History

The history of TESCAN is closely connected with the company Tesla Brno and Czech Academy of Science - department Institute of Scientific Instruments Brno - ISI Brno in brief. With cooperation of ISI Brno Tesla Brno was developing and manufacturing electron microscopes in communism era of Czechosovakia. The of the first very successful model was microscope Tesla BS 242 which won the Gold Medal at EXPO 1958. Over 3000 of various models were produced over a period of 30 years and exported to 20 countries. The Tesla split into many small companies after the Velvet Revolution. Many of those companies still had their business in the electron microscopy field. One of these company was TESCAN which was established by 6 R&D and service engineers from the Tesla. The name TESCAN is derived from the words TESla and SCANning - TESCAN.

Locations

TESCAN maintains their research and development center in Brno, Czech Republic. It has got sales and service subsidiaries in China and the USA. It has worldwide sales and service distributors in more than 50 countries around the world.

Competitors

• Aspex Corporation
• FEI Company
• Hitachi
• JEOL, Inc.
• Carl Zeiss NTS GmbH

References

Sources

http://www.tescan.com/history.php
ISI Brno - The Museum of the Department of Electron Optics

External links

• http://www.tescan.com
• http://www.tescan.de
• Installation of Tescan SEM at Flamant Laboratory in Breda, the Netherlands
• Tescan Scanning Electron Microscopes Appoint Distributor in Ireland and the UK