Renaissance Scientific

The short answer is Colorado, USA. The pandemic has forced us to be in separate locations during the last two years when we were in heavy R&D, and so we were subdivided between Boulder and Fort Collins. Recently, we moved production of our machined parts to Four Nine Design in BIllings, MT. We are opening an office in Longmont, CO in a few months. This will serve as our headquarters. All assembly, testing, and shipping will be from the new office.

It depends on the item. The chip shortage has affected the closed-loop controller for our encoded stages. Open-loop stages are currently shipping with 16 week lead times. Scanners are on 8-10 week lead times. AFMs are unaffected because we use the RHK electronics for those, and they have not reported any delays to us.

We have qualified the Quantum Design OptiCool for SPM and the Four Nine Design IsoDry. For now, these are the only cryostats where we will guarantee performance of our AFMs. Most liquid helium cryostats are also fine, though check with us to make sure.

We will be, yes. In about 6 months we’re going to be looking for engineering help, adding both mechanical and electrical, as well as finance and HR.

We are in the process of executing contracts for most worldwide territories. We will release this list as soon as the ink is dry. But our products will be available in nearly all major worldwide territories. Currently we will have covered: EU, China, Japan, Singapore, India, South America, South Korea, and Australia. We sell direct in the USA, Canada, and Mexico.

We are fascinated and highly engaged with the technology of our customers! But it tends to make more sense for us to support you in more of a background/passive way. In most cases, we’re glad to provide letters of support; we’re always glad to provide budgetary quotes. But we generally limit our involvement to that level. We are a retail and OEM seller of scientific equipment with no intention of becoming an SBIR mill.

We do not, sorry.

We realize that there are proposals that do not allow for the purchase of capital equipment, but we do not wish to get involved in work-arounds where we pretend that you helped us develop something for the purposes of cloaking your capital equipment purchase. We encourage you to seek other vendors for this.