Rubotherm - About us

Rubotherm develops, produces and sells measuring instruments and laboratory plants for process engineering. The main emphasis of our work is placed on gravimetric measuring methods for recording mass changes under controlled environments.

In the 1980's the company founders from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum developed a new method whereby samples could be weighed in closed vessels without any contact. The principle is as follows: a sample is weighed from the outside by means of a new kind of magnetic suspension balance (which has been patented worldwide) and the suspension force is contactlessly transmitted from the pressurised measuring cell to a microbalance at ambient atmosphere. This means that mass changes of a sample can be recorded even under extreme conditions with the utmost accuracy.
Since the mid 80's these magnetic suspension balances have been applied to fundamental research work with enormous success. Numerous requests, including many from industry, induced the developers to set up the company Rubotherm GmbH in 1990, located in Bochum. Our weighing technology has since then been enjoying an even wider circle of application throughout the world in both research and industry.