History
History and Present
Founded as a small company for manufacturing programmable control units for general purposes, upgrading analogue scanning electron microscopes and manufacturing accessories for them in 1991, the TESCAN is today one of the global suppliers of scanning electron microscopes and solutions for materials science, industry, biology and life sciences, forensic science and others.
History of TESCAN
2012
- CEO Jaroslav Klima named Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 in the South Moravian Region and Technology Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 in the Czech Republic
2011
- TIMA (TESCAN Integrated Mineral Analyzer) introduced
- 20th anniversary of the company
- 1000th SEM installed
- ISO Certification, Certificate of Exceptionality (TÜV SÜD Czech)
2010
- Introduction of third generation of SEMs
- Transformation to a joint stock company
- Acquisition of Tescan USA
- General Manager Jaroslav Klima named Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 in the South Moravian Region
2009
- Establishing a branch office in China (TESCAN China)
- INDUSEM introduced - a scanning electron microscope for industrial use
2008
- LYRA I FEG introduced
- Introduced VEGA II EasyProbe, an EasySEM™ with a fully integrated One-Touch EDX
2007
- LYRA I FIB-SEM introduced
- MIRA II Schottky FE-SEM with In-Beam Detector
- World’s first live stereoscopic SEM imaging
2006
- VEGA II 3D Metrology
2005
- MIRA I Schottky FE-SEM
- In-Flight Beam Tracing™ technology for MIRA introduced
2004
- VEGA II SEM - second generation with 8 standard models
- Released Wide Field Optics™ unique electron-optical design
- ISO 14001, 9001 Quality Certification
2003
- LVSTD – the Low Vacuum Secondary Electron Detector – patented
2002
- Large chamber models for VEGA SEM released
2001
- Gold medal for VEGA TS 5130 MM on 43rd International Engineering Fair
- Award of the Engineering Academy of the Czech Republic
2000
- Variable Pressure VEGA SEM introduced
1999
- VEGA SEM with built-in remote control introduced
1996
- First compact fully PC controlled SEM PROXIMA introduced
1992
- Image processor “Satellite” for upgrading older SEMs to digital image acquisition
1991
- TESCAN, s.r.o. established
