Judges Scientific PLC

judges scientific plc manufactures and sells scientific instruments. the company operates in two segments, materials sciences and vacuum. it offers engineering teaching and research equipment for universities, colleges, schools, and research centers; and research and development systems for food, beverage, dairy, edible oil, and pharmaceutical industries. the company also provides led illumination systems for bioscience and clinical microscopy; tensile testing, motion control, and specimen cooling for microscopy applications; automated measurement systems for a range of fibers; edge-welded metal bellows; and fire testing instruments, such as cone calorimeters, large scale calorimeters, nbs smoke chambers and oxygen index test, and related fire testing instruments. in addition, it offers equipment and software used for the computer-controlled testing of soils and rocks; open flow cryocoolers for the x-ray diffraction market; crycoolers for cooling applications, such as radio astronomy;