History

1886

Foundation in Thuringia, Germany
First products: laboratory glassware - the first industrially manufactured thermometers came from Thuringia

1954

Relocation to West Germany
Manufacture of all the usual laboratory glass and metal instruments (Erlenmeyer flasks, Liebig condensers, distillation columns, Bunsen burners, stands adaptors)
Systems for medical and pharmaceutical research (products: isolated organ apparatus, non-invasive blood pressure measurement, analgesia)

1975

First activity measuring systems (1 measuring station required 240 piezo strips)

1977

"PharmaComp", the first laboratory computer – a universal data acquisition and processing system for the pharmacological laboratory

1980

Market introduction of the first Electroencephalogram (EEG) Telemetry System (transmitter 4 g with battery)

1982

First "Measurement of Breathing Parameters System" system for bronchial research

1985

First Fully Automated Activity Measuring System for rats

1986

RoboComp & the first substance-screening laboratory-handling automaton for controlling 128 organ vessels for studies on isolated heart muscle fibers

1990

Concentration on the development and production of methods and systems for biological research focusing on drugs – the result: the introduction of computer-supported automatic systems

1994

First Drinking & Feeding Monitoring System. Validation of nose only exposure chambers with new design (2-chamber principle)

1999

First combined system – for monitoring activity and drinking & feeding consumption

2002

Complete line of Automated Behavioral Paradigms (FCS, Startle, OBS)

2003

First LabMaster large-scale system (Drinking & Feeding, Activity, Calorimetry)

2004

Establishment of our separate US Corporation: "TSE Systems, Inc." in Midland, Michigan. The company moved to larger premises in Chesterfield, MO, in 2009 (see picture)

2005

Largest European Manufacturer for Metabolism / Behavior and Inhalation Systems

2006

Start of the PhenoMaster Project (Calorimetry, Activity, Drinking & Feeding, Running Wheel, Operant Wall)

2007

First delivery of PhenoMaster System (automated metabolic & behavioral phenotyping)

TSE Systems intensifies its efforts to enter the Indian market and establishes a representative in New Delhi

2010

TSE Systems establishes a subsidiary in Beijing, China

Today

TSE Systems is one of the leading suppliers for sophisticated life science research instrumentation and demonstrates continued stable growth