Later this week we’ll be hanging out with our local sales agent in Puerto Rico, MR Franceschini (MRF) at the Interphex Puerto Rico trade show. Each year Brooks partner’s up with MRF to exhibit. Boy does this trade show do it right. It’s on Thursday and Friday and starts each day at 1pm and ends at 8pm. The show has a party atmosphere and everyone that comes truly seems to have a good time. It’s the best way to mix business with pleasure. I had the pleasure of attending this trade show myself years ago, but our regional sales manager for this territory, Rich Fravel, will be in attendance this year, as he is every year … lucky guy! Read more…
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The Brooks online store is starting to grow! This week, we added the Sho-Rate 1250 and 1255 low-flow glass tube rotameters to the online shop. As a reminder, we’re offering free shipping on all orders within the domestic United States.
The 1250 and 1255 Sho-Rate flow meters feature an easy-to-read scale with rotating lens. These provide a 180-degree magnified view, making it the ideal choice for displaying on panels and cabinets. The Model 1250 Sho-Rate flow meter provides 10-percent accuracy for liquids and gases, and the Model 1255 flow meter provides 5-percent accuracy.
The Model 1250 is available in 65 mm scale lengths, while the Model 1255 comes in 150 mm scale lengths. The rotameters are configured with a standard control valve on the inlet, the valves and fittings are 316 stainless steel, and the O-rings and seals are Viton fluoroelastomer.
It’s official! Brooks Instrument has launched its online store. Now we can give customers quick and easy access to the Brooks family of products. Best of all, we’re offering free shipping on all orders within the domestic United States.
Currently, the store offers the 2500 Series plastic tube flow meters (rotameters) for purchase. In the coming months, we’ll be adding pressure gauges, pressure transducers, mass flow controllers, mass flow meters and more.
Our goal is to get Brooks’ products into the hands of customers as efficiently as possible to support your application needs. So, stop by the online store and check back to see what’s new in the coming months!
It’s official! Brooks Instrument has launched its online store. Now we can give customers quick and easy access to Brooks family of products. Best of all, we’re offering free shipping on all orders within the domestic United States.
Currently, the store offers the Brooks 2500 Series plastic tube rotameters for purchase. In the coming months, we’ll be adding Brooks’ pressure gauges, pressure transducers, mass flow controllers and more.
Our goal is to get Brooks’ products into the hands of customers as efficiently as possible to support your application needs. So, stop by the online store and check back to see what’s new in the coming months!
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Brooks has been at the same facility in Hatfield, PA for, well … forever! At least it feels and looks that way, until recently. We’ve been a growing company these past few years, and because of this we made some overdue investments into our global headquarters. By now, I’m sure you know about our new cleanroom in Hatfield. But that was just the beginning. Everyone in cubicle land at Brooks has received a new cubicle and new chair (very comfy in my opinion). New carpets, painted walls, and so much more.
Our front lobby has been totally redone from top to bottom. New floors, new LCD TV and new product shelves to showcase what we offer our customers. Read more…
I’m very pleased to announce that we have launched a mobile version of www.BrooksInstrument.com, allowing you to easily access company and product information with iPhones, Droids, Blackberrys and other small-screen mobile devices.
Manufacturers are increasingly using mobile devices to access the Internet, and Brooks’ mobile website will enable users to quickly retrieve specific product information and documentation at any time and any place. The mobile website’s content is organized into five categories: products, documentation, applications, contact us and career opportunities. Users will be able to download a variety of information direct to their phones.
The mobile version of the Brooks website automatically opens when visiting the same URL as Brooks’ regular website, www.brooksinstrument.com, using a mobile device.
At Pittcon this week in Atlanta, Gases and Instrumentation International presented Brooks with a 2011 Golden Gas Award. We took home top honors in the “Mass Flow Measurement/Press Measurement and Control” category for our GF Series Thermal Mass Flow Controllers.
GF125 Thermal Mass Flow Controller
The GF Series is a highly modular, user programmable, ultra high purity mass flow controller designed for advanced semiconductor and thin-film processes. Through proactive monitoring of the worlds largest install base of MultiFlo™ and pressure transient insensitive mass flow controllers, the GF Series combines exceptional flow repeatability, market-leading 300ms flow control response time, the most comprehensive gas and flow range programmability, and long-term reliability in a highly configurable platform.
“The GF Series is a single platform, process-wide solution for the challenging and diverse needs of the modern semiconductor manufacturing facility,” said Shaun Pewsey, director of field marketing at Brooks Instrument. “We are honored to be recognized by Gases and Instrumentation International’s Golden Gas Awards for this innovation to the semiconductor industry.”
Brooks previously won a Golden Gas Award in 2008 for our 4800 Series mass flow products. For more information on the GF Series, click here.
The industry has spoken, and as a result, Brooks received multiple honors in Control Global’s recent Readers’ Choice Awards! We earned three top marks in flow measurement, a supplier category with arguably the most detailed applications expertise and domain knowledge required in any category of the awards.
We placed No.1 in the category of Variable Area Flowmeter and No. 2 in Postive Displacement Flowmeter. We came in No. 3 in the category of Thermal Mass Flowmeter.
“We are honored to be recognized by Control Global’s Readers’ Choice Awards,” said Clark Hale, chief executive officer of Brooks Instrument. “Some of the most rewarding feedback comes from industry experts like these who work with Brooks on a regular basis.”
The winners were selected by Control Global’s print and digital readers in an unaided (with no preselected choices presented) survey, representing a collective opinion of more than 1,000 automation professionals.
To read more about this year’s awards, click here.
Brooks and Polycontrols Technologies have been working together to support NASA research that will send a new exploratory module to Venus. Polycontrols is integrating Brooks’ SLA series mass flow controllers with a gas mixing system and chamber that NASA will use for materials testing at the John Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
Sending a new exploration module to Venus’ surface will require NASA to ensure the module and its electronic components can withstand the planet’s harsh environment. The gas mixing system and chamber will simulate high thermal stress and Venus’ corrosive atmosphere to test materials needed to make the new module.
Polycontrols’ team selected Brooks’ SLA series mass flow controllers because it proved that it could accurately produce proper gas concentrations to the parts per million (PPM) precision that NASA needs to achieve in the test chamber.
View the full case study here.
We just launched yet another new website, this time for our buddies over at Key Instruments, which is a division of Brooks Instrument. We redesigned www.KeyInstruments.com with enhanced company and product information, a variety of technical support options, as well as direct access to Key Instruments’ new e-commerce site, www.KIDirect.com.
With a simple, updated design, KeyInstruments.com is easy to navigate, including upgraded search functions to find documentation, products, FAQs and more. Updated content includes hundreds of data sheets and instruction manuals.
We made sure to think of the users of KeyInstrument.com as we developed the new site. Our goal is to provide the best products and services for our consumers, and this website supports that, allowing users to easily access all aspects of the company, from information about specific products, to technical support, to requesting a quote.
Check it out and let me know what you think.
It has been a long time coming, but yesterday marked the official opening of our new cleanroom manufacturing facility! Outside vendors involved with the build joined us for a ribbon cutting ceremony this morning outside the cleanroom. Local representatives also attended to recognize Brooks for the economic contributions we’ve made to the community through almost 100 new manufacturing jobs in 2010.
Brooks CEO Clark Hale had this to say at the ceremony:
“This is the largest investment Brooks Instrument has ever made in its manufacturing facilities worldwide. It signifies us taking major strides into the electronics industry and our commitment to the future growth of Brooks.”
The Class 100 cleanroom will serve primarily as the production area for Brooks’ GF Series ultra high-purity mass flow controllers.
To learn more about the cleanroom, watch an interview that Ian Kaye, production manager at Brooks, gave to the Reporter Online.
Check out some photos from the ceremony below:
