Bruker

Bruker Corporation is a group of companies in the field of instrumental analysis.

Structure and Locations

It consists of the businesses:

• Bruker AXS ( X-ray spectroscopy and diffraction )
• Bruker BioSpin (NMR, EPR, MRI, Magnetbau )
• Bruker Daltonics ( mass spectrometry)
• Bruker EST (energy and superconducting technology)
• Bruker Nano ( energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy )
• Bruker Optics ( infrared and Raman spectroscopy)
• Bruker Saxonia mechanics (manufacturing)

In total, more than 6,000 employees worldwide work in the various Bruker company. The turnover of the group as a whole in 2011 amounted to more than 1.6 billion U.S. dollars. In 2008, Bruker BioSpin, Bruker Daltonics, Bruker Optics and Bruker AXS were grouped under the parent company Bruker Corporation. Shares of Bruker Corporation are traded on the NASDAQ, ticker symbol BRKR.

Headquarters are in Switzerland, Germany, France and the United States. Worldwide, more than 25 company locations and more than 70 agencies will be entertained in 60 countries. Customers are mainly universities, research laboratories and industry (chemicals, pharmaceuticals, etc.). With the devices produced solid, liquid, and gaseous substances can be analyzed. Examples of applications include the areas of biotechnology, genetic research, drug development, blood tests ( cholesterol content), analysis of food, process control and detection of chemical and nuclear warfare agents.

Bruker locations in Germany are: Rheinstetten (Headquarters), Karlsruhe ( Bruker BioSpin, Bruker AXS ), Ettlingen (Bruker Optics Bruker BioSpin MRI), Bremen (Bruker Daltonics ), Leipzig (Bruker Daltonics and Bruker Saxonia mechanics) and Kalkar (Bruker Elemental ).

History

On September 7, 1960 saw the founding of the Bruker Physik AG by Günther Laukien, then a professor of experimental physics at the University of Karlsruhe. Since at this time university professors in Germany were not allowed at the same time working in commercial enterprises, the company was named the co-founder Emil Bruker. First, a building in the Hardtstraße in Karlsruhe laboratory magnets and their DC power supply units were produced in the backyard.

1963 the company employed about 30 people and took their first high-resolution NMR and ESR spectrometer on the market. In 1964, the newly built labs and production facilities were purchased in Rheinstetten near Karlsruhe. Developed during these years, and built one, in a group of physicists Bertold Bludgeon and Manfred Holz and engineers Dieter Ratzel and Paul Veron, the world's first commercially available NMR pulse spectrometer, which were for sale success primarily by customers in European universities. In these "quartz controlled " pulse spectrometers were first the gate pulses and the channel frequency from a single " mother crystal " derived, they were thus synchronized, and therefore allowed the desired control of the radio -frequency phase (ie, the NMR experiment, the radio -frequency radiation direction ) in the individual rF pulses within complex pulse trains, as it is essential in most modern NMR methods. This principle of quartz control and synchronization, introduced in all Bruker NMR pulse spectrometer from 1966, was hence an extremely important, apparatus based on the introduced later NMR Fourier transform spectroscopy and magnetic resonance imaging dar. --- In parallel, Bruker Physik AG, the development large, a very homogeneous magnetic field supplied ( high-resolution ), electromagnet with power supplies extreme stability, as required by the NMR and ESR spectroscopy, started. Here Bruker, as well as other company benefited from the then funding policy of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the purchase of major equipment.

At the same time the activities at Bruker, operating in Zurich, the company turbid Täuber & Co a small research department to Werner Tschopp and Tony Keller, for the development of NMR spectrometers. The NMR research in turbid Täuber benefited from a close collaboration with the ETH Zurich, in particular with Professors Hans H. Günthard and Hans Primas and Richard R. Ernst, who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1991. The first turbid Täuber system, HIS I, based on a permanent magnet and worked at 25 MHz. The mid-1960s became turbid Täuber in economic difficulties. In order to secure the survival of the NMR department, G. Laukien founded a new company: the Spectrospin AG.

The establishment of the Spectrospin AG created the framework for close cooperation with strong synergies. Bruker focused on magnets, NMR pulse spectrometer, ESR, and power supplies while Spectrospin created the high-resolution NMR instruments. Together, the two companies took an ambitious joint development project in attack, the result was a new, fully working with transistors NMR spectrometer. The first of these tools called HFX 90 was delivered to the Technical University of Berlin. The HFX 90 first came a commercial spectrometer with three separate channels to market - one channel for signal detection, isolation and lock. This opens up completely new experiments could be carried out and so far complex experiments were routine.

In 1968, Bruker first time in the U.S., where the Yale University had ordered two systems. To address the growing demand in North America, Bruker opened its first office in Elmsford, New York. 1969 presented the world's first Bruker FT- NMR spectrometer with broadband proton decoupling. This FT- NMR technique could significantly expand Bruker its market share. Bruker's role in the development of pulse spectroscopy also led to the construction of the minispec, an NMR - small device, which was produced in large numbers and was designed for industrial applications.

In the 1970s, Bruker FTIR spectrometer began to develop. Be used on components that have been developed for the NMR spectrometer. In 1974, its first Bruker FTIR spectrometer on the market. An essential component and a guarantee for the success of this product line introduced the Genzel interferometer dar. Bruker Advanced henceforth the product range for the vibrational spectroscopy continuously, and developed numerous devices for both the analysis as well as for applications in research and development. The economic success in 1998 led to the founding of Bruker Optics. Today offers, Bruker Optics FTIR and Raman spectroscopy apparatus (including FT- Raman ) to for both industrial applications and research and development.

The focus in the area of Bruker NMR automatically also led to developments in the field of MRI. Founded in 1976 Bruker Medizintechnik GmbH developed and produced it NMR-based imaging systems for clinical and pre-clinical use, resulting finally emerged whole-body MRI devices. Over time, the focus shifted to preclinical systems, and the company was to Bruker BioSpin MRI.

1977 Bruker marine technology began with the construction of small submarines for marine research, tourism and oil exploration. After Bruker its focus increasingly shifted to analytical tools, this unique division was eventually sold.

In 1980, the Bruker " Dr. Franzen analysis technique "in Bremen, which earned quadrupole mass spectrometer in the product portfolio. In the same year, the first mobile device from Bruker mass spectrometry, the MM1, a great success in the commercial and military sector was. This was followed by the construction of a new type of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer (FT -ICR -MS). As part of an innovative collaboration with the Technical University of Munich 1983 flight mass spectrometer Bruker took on in its range, which are an integral part of the product lines of Bruker today. 1997 Bruker Franzen Analytik GmbH was renamed Bruker Daltonics GmbH.

In 1997, the Bruker X-ray analysis of Siemens AG with modern production facilities in Karlsruhe and Madison, Wisconsin. Under the name of Bruker AXS, the new company has seen in the following years in areas such as X-ray diffraction and X-ray spectroscopy sustainable growth.

Also in 1997, The company founder died Günther Laukien and there was a change of leadership; Laukiens widow and his four sons continued the business.

In 2000, an organizational restructuring was initiated. Bruker Daltonics Bruker Group became the first company in the U.S. stock market ( NASDAQ). Followed in 2001 by Bruker AXS. 2003 merged Bruker Daltonics and Bruker AXS was incorporated into a new joint-stock company, in the 2006 Bruker Optics. Bruker BioSpin 2008 was added, the magnetic field with which it all began. Thus, the fusion of all Bruker company was completed.

Product lines

Bruker Scientific Instruments Division

• Bruker AXS: X-ray diffraction, X-ray crystallography, X-ray fluorescence, atomic force microscopy
• Bruker BioSpin: nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, magnetic resonance, electron spin resonance spectroscopy, superconducting magnets
• Bruker Daltonics: mass spectrometry, ion mobility spectrometer
• Bruker Optics: infrared spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy

Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST) Division

• Low-temperature superconductors
• High temperature superconductors
• Research Magnets
• Synchrotron systems