Austrian society Anton Paar has just acquired the German company PetrotestThe company now offers measuring instruments for oil industry laboratories. As a reminderAnton Paar specializes in instruments for density and concentration measurement, rheology and surface analysis, and measurement of dissolved carbon dioxide (particularly in beverages). The purchase price of Petrotest has not been revealed, but it is the biggest acquisition in the history of Anton Paarwhich had successively acquired Physica Messtechnik (1996), MSB Morocutti (2006) and Dr Wolfgang Kernchen (2007), all from Germany. Petrotest has been developing and producing testing equipment for petroleum products since 1873, including viscometers, densimeters, colorimeters, flash point meters, elementary sulfur and nitrogen analyzers, and specific analyzers for crude oil, fuels, greases and lubricants.
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