Anton Paar
Great people | Great instruments
The “Anton Paar” success story began on January 4, 1922, when Anton Paar started his metalworking shop. Back then, it was hard to imagine that this one-man metalworking shop would one day become a global corporation that currently has more than 4,000 employees. It’s not just the unique quality of their instruments, which they manufacture with exceptional craftsmanship and the highest precision. Above all, it’s the people at Anton Paar who approach their work with enthusiasm, curiosity, and engagement.
The Anton Paar Group is active in more than 110 countries with 40 sales subsidiaries and nine producing firms in Europe and the USA. Meanwhile, more than 4,400 employees in a worldwide network of research and development, production, sales, and support are responsible for the quality, reliability, and service of products made by Anton Paar. Since 2003, the Charitable Santner Foundation has been the owner of Anton Paar. It is dedicated exclusively and directly to charitable purposes. In 2024, the company generated net sales revenue of 614 million euros.
Anton Paar provides a comprehensive portfolio of material characterization solutions tailored to the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries, covering the full range from the molecular to the macroscopic scale.
Its technologies support the analysis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), excipients, formulations, and biologics throughout development and manufacturing. Structure-focused methods such as X-ray analysis and spectroscopy enable detailed insights into crystallinity, polymorphism, and composition, while solutions for particle characterization, rheological investigations, viscometry, and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) support the optimization of formulation stability, thermal behavior, and processability.
Complementary techniques such as bioindentation provide valuable information on the mechanical properties of biological materials and soft matter, enabling deeper understanding of tissue behavior and biomaterial performance.