What We Do - ATA Scientific

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Listening to your requirements

The essence of what we do is to provide the instruments and know-how for you to obtain meaningful and reliable analytical results. We do this by listening to your requirements and taking care to supply the most suitable technology together with on-going help.

We represent a group of highly regarded international companies. Their range of innovative instruments are applicable across the Particle, Surface, Life and Material Sciences.

Established over 30 years ago we have built an extensive customer base throughout Australia and New Zealand. This includes Universities, CSIRO and a diverse range of companies in the pharmaceutical, polymer, chemical and mining industries.

Specialist advice and training

Our people have an extensive range of skills and experience in analytical technologies, especially particle and protein characterisation. We can support you with ongoing applications assistance and by encouraging the adoption of standard operating procedures. Advice regarding instrument operation and optimisation of data quality are freely available by phone and email.

To help you get the best from your instrument we also offer a range of events throughout the year including training courses, workshops and seminars. Training courses cover the fundamentals of the measurement technique, instrument operation, familiarity with software and data interpretation. Practical demonstrations form an important part of the training.

Long term technical services

A full range of technical services are provided by our engineers including operator training, preventative maintenance, repair and upgrades. The objective is to ensure that your instruments are always in working order and producing reliable results.

Our customer support is over the long term and usually over the lifetime of the instrument. We provide this long term support, so that you can enjoy the maximum benefit from our products and services

There is constant change in analytical technologies. We will meet the demands of new challenges by continuing to invest in the technical capabilities of our people.

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Judy Raper

Dean & CEO at TEDI-London

I have worked with ATA Scientific for over 30 years, since they were the pioneers in representing innovative instruments, like the laser diffraction particle sizing instruments manufactured by Malvern. I had used these instruments in the UK and was keen to see them applied in Australia. It was a huge relief to find the UK company represented by ATA Scientific. Perhaps the most important issue when purchasing complex instrumentation is the service and ATA have always prided themselves on their excellent service. I’m delighted to see how the company has grown and diversified and wish them well in their new building.

Professor Maria Kavallaris

Founding Director, Australian Centre for NanoMedicine, UNSW Sydney

ATA Scientific have long served the scientific industry of Australia, supplying innovative solutions to help us at CCIA solve some very complex questions. They have built a reputation for service and support and in my experience, they have delivered on this. I am delighted to hear of your new chapter and encourage you to continue your strong support of our industry driving innovation and creating opportunities for Australian science.

Professor Clive Prestidge

Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Cancer Research Institute, HB6-16

It’s been an absolute pleasure to work with ATA Scientific for what must be more than 20 years! Not only have we enjoyed outstanding support with respect to instrument supply and staff/student training, but also the sponsorship and attendance at our Australian Controlled Release (Aus CRS)/Drug Delivery Australia (DDA) conferences and workshops has been incredibly valuable. The research journal of so many postgraduate students has been enriched by the support of ATA. Here’s to bigger and better things for the future!

Professor Colin W Pouton

Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics

ATA Scientific has been a longtime partner of Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and it has been a great pleasure working with such a responsive and professional group. At a personal level, in recent times, ATA did a wonderful job in working with Precision Nanosystems to supply, in record time as a matter of urgency, Australia's first NxGen Blaze Nanoassemblr. The instrument is now in use for development of Australia's first mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.

Suppliers we represent

Supplier Name	Supplier Website	Country	Type of Products
Attension	www.biolinscientific.com/attension	Finland	Optical and Force Tensiometers - contact angle, surface & interfacial tension
Aurox	www.aurox.co.uk	UK	Benchtop Laser Free Confocal Microscope
Avestin	www.avestin.com	Canada	High Pressure Homogenisers, Liposome processing
Bioforce	www.bioforcenano.com	USA	Biosurface & AFM Tip Cleaner
Biolin Scientific	www.biolinscientific.com	Sweden	Optical and Force Tensiometers - Contact angle meters - Langmuir Troughs - Surface & Thin Film Interactions using QCM-D monitoring
Cellbox Solutions	www.cellbox-solutions.com	Germany	Portable CO2 incubator for the transport of live cells
Fluidic Analytics	www.fluidic.com	UK	Microfluidic diffusion analysis of interactions and sizes of proteins under native solution conditions
Jasco	www.jascoinc.com	Japan	Spectroscopy (Circular Dichroism)
KSV-Nima	www.biolinscientific.com/ksvnima	Finland	Langmuir Blodgett Troughs
Logos Biosystems	www.logosbio.com	South Korea	Automated cell counting, high content live cell imaging and rapid tissue clearing for 3D analysis
Malvern Panalytical	www.malvernpanalytical.com	UK	Particle size, Particle shape, Particle concentration, Nanoparticles, Rheology, Elemental concentration, Crystallographic structure
Micromeritics	www.micromeritics.com	USA	Physisorption and chemisorption instruments for surface area, pore size and density of powders
Phasefocus	www.phasefocus.com	UK	Label-free, high contrast live cell imaging with automated tracking and behavioural analysis of hundreds of individual cells within heterogeneous cell populations
Phenom-World (part of Thermo Fisher Scientific)	www.phenom-world.com	Netherlands	High Resolution SEM Imaging - Scanning Electron Microscopy & X-Ray Analysis
Precision Nanosystems	www.precisionnanosystems.com	Canada	Synthesis of liposomes, polymeric nanoparticles and lipid nanoparticles.
Q-Sense	www.biolinscientific.com/qsense	Sweden	Surface & Thin Film Interactions using QCM-D monitoring
RedShiftBio	www.redshiftbio.com	USA	Protein characterisation
Whitehouse Scientific	www.whitehousescientific.co.uk	UK	Particle Size Standards

Customer installations

AUTOCHEM II 2920

Monash University, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering has installed their new Micromeritics Autochem II 2920 Chemisorption Analyser. This fully automated instrument enables highly precise chemical adsorption and temperature- programmed reaction studies, ideal for studying catalysts.

NanoAssemblr IGNITE

UNSW is the first state in Australia to deliver a pilot manufacturing facility to support the establishment of a local RNA industry. Prof. Thordarson is director of the UNSW RNA Institute which brings together researchers from UNSW Science, Engineering and Medicine & Health. The NanoAssemblr platform will be used in the development of novel RNA therapeutics including cancer treatments along with RNA-based vaccines.

NanoSight NS300

All G foods recently installed their new Malvern NanoSight NS300 with autosampler. All G Foods is an Australian startup that develops dairy proteins that can be included in milk and other “cow-free” dairy products, as well as plant-based meat ranges. Their team of food technologists are passionate about solving the world’s toughest food challenges with high-quality alternative proteins.

Attension Theta Flex

The Central Analytical Research Facility (CARF) at QUT has installed their new Theta Flex tensiometer. The group focuses on creating and characterising novel materials (like graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and surface-confined polymers), and analysing surface and interface compositions and interactions.

Malvern Mastersizer 3000

Ensign Laboratories have recently installed their new Mastersizer 3000 particle sizing system. Their team is focused on the development of liquid formulation types and delivery systems, from cosmetic and therapeutic product development to specialised functional foods, as well as ingestible health and pharmaceutical products.

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If you have a question about any of the conferences that we are involved in, or our products and service, please get in touch and one of our friendly team will be happy to help.