SEPTEMBER 10, 2007--FOGALE nanotech (Los Angeles, CA, USA; www.fogale.com), provider of high-accuracy dimensional metrology, has opened its first North American office in Los Angeles, CA, USA. This location, open since Sept. 4, 2007, will improve the after-market sales service for FOGALE's current and future North American clients.
With expertise in capacitive, inductive, optical, and ultrasonic metrology and a strong scientific background, FOGALE provides standard and customized systems adapted to each client's implementation and utilization constraints. Its standard products and engineering know-how are found in the most demanding fields of industry and laboratories such as automotive, defense, aeronautics, and the nuclear industry in Europe, the United States, and Asia.
Some examples of the company's technologies are an intelligent anticollision device for medical robots, an ultrahigh-accuracy alignment for ultralarge laboratory machines, and high-temperature blade-tip clearance measurement systems for the aerospace industry. It has also developed active real-time measurement devices for telescopes and has customized 3-D profilometers for laboratories and the semiconductor industry. It recently introduced the new Biomass+ system for accurately measuring viable cell density for yeast, bacterial, fungal, animal, and plant cells.
FOGALE nanotech will be present at the following trade shows this year: Quality Expo, Sept. 25 to 27, Rosemont, IL, USA, booth 6644; BioProcess International Conference & Exhibition, Oct. 1 to 4, Boston, MA, USA, at the BioPro International booth; and RSNA, Nov. 25 to 30, Chicago, IL, USA, booth 5419.