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| Company type | Joint stock company |
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| Industry | Scientific and technical instruments |
| Founded | 17 July 1991 |
| Headquarters | Brno ,Czech Republic |
Area served | Global |
Key people | CEO | Jean-Charles Chen |
| Products | Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM), Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopes (STEM), Focused Ion Beam-Scanning Electron Microscopes (FIB-SEM), and microcomputed tomography (microCT). |
| Revenue | 1,715,682,000 Czech koruna (2016)  |
| 143,448,000 Czech koruna (2016) | |
| 92,887,000 Czech koruna (2016) | |
| Total assets | 3,114,946,000 Czech koruna (2016) |
Number of employees | over 700 |
| Website | tescan.cz |
TESCAN is one of the world's leading manufacturers of Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM), Focused Ion Beam-Scanning Electron Microscopes (FIB-SEM),Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopes (STEM), andmicrocomputed tomography (microCT). TESCAN serves customers inmaterials science,geosciences,life sciences andsemiconductor markets. Company is located inBrno (Czech Republic), which is considered to be the cradle ofelectron microscopy inEurope.[1]
The history of electron microscope production inCzechoslovakia dates back to the 1950s when a team led byArmin Delong inBrno started to produce electron microscopes. One of the first successful microscopes was theTesla BS 242 model, which won a gold medal at the EXPO 1958. During its 30-year existence, Tesla produced over 3,000 different models of microscopes which were exported to over 20 countries.[2]
After theVelvet Revolution,Tesla was divided into several smaller companies. Some of them still operate in the electron microscope market. One of these companies is TESCAN which was founded in 1991 by former Tesla development and service employees. The name TESCAN was derived from the words TESla and SCANning (scanning – screening).[3]
TESCAN originally manufactured programmable controllers, digitizers for older analog scanning electron microscopes, and other small accessories.
In 2020, 3000 was installed at the University of Freiburg, Germany.[4] TESCAN has now produced over 3,000 SEMs and FIB-SEMs.[citation needed]
In 2013, TESCAN ORSAY HOLDING was established following the merger of the Czech company TESCAN, a leading global developer and supplier of scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) and focused ion beam (FIB) workstations, and the French company ORSAY PHYSICS, a world leader in customized Focused Ion Beam and Electron Beam technology.[5]
The headquarters of the TESCAN ORSAY HOLDING is located in Brno, The Czech Republic. This location serves as the base for production and research and development of all microscopes. From this, about 95% of the total production is exported to locations all over the world via local subsidiaries and distributors.[6]
TESCAN ORSAY HOLDING comprises 7 subsidiaries located inEurope,Asia and theAmericas that together employ almost 500 people. TESCAN manufactures about 250 microscopes per year yielding revenue of approximately US$80 million per annum.
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