Judges Scientific plc designs, manufactures, and sells scientific instruments. The company offers engineering teaching and research equipment for universities, colleges, schools, and research centres; and research and development systems for food, beverage, dairy, edible oil, and pharmaceutical industries. It also provides cutting edge 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, the company offers equipment and software used for the computer-controlled testing of soils and rocks; thin film deposition systems; physical and chemical vapour deposition instruments to cover materials with thin films; open flow cryocoolers for the X-ray diffraction market and crycoolers for cooling applications, such as radio astronomy; test equipment for the measurement of optical fibers; scientific instruments primarily used for electron microscopy sample preparation; scientific equipment used by electrophysiology and imaging researchers; and rare gas purifiers for metal analysis. Further, it provides specialist instrumentation for geoscience applications; plasma surface treatment systems and processes; specialized calorimeters used for chemical and battery industries; sample heating and manipulation products for use in vacuum markets for materials research and production; and sheet metalwork services, including components and casting, fabrication, bespoke engineering solutions, as well as laser cutting and CNC machining services. The company operates in the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, North America, China, and internationally. Judges Scientific plc is based in London, the United Kingdom.