November 11, 2008: JPK Instruments, a manufacturer of nanoanalytic instruments for the life science and soft matter sectors, is the fastest-growing company in Germany’s nanotechnology industry for the second year in a row, according to new Deloitte Technology rankings [results in German]. JPK also made the top ten across all participating sectors and companies.
To determine the leading companies in Germany’s high-tech industries for their sixth annual survey of this kind, accounting and consulting company Deloitte analyzed their compounded percentage sales growth rates of the past five years. JPK achieved a growth rate of over 930%.
Frank Pelzer, CEO of JPK, is pleased with the award and optimistic about the future: “We have already achieved excellent growth rates with our very first product, the NanoWizard atomic force microscope, and have operated profitably since 2004. At present, seven new products are in the market launch phase.”
In addition to extending its product portfolio, JPK is expanding in two other growth fields. “We have set up two sales offices in the UK and Singapore. Moreover, now that our technologies and products have successfully been established in research, we will also market them in the industrial sector in order to reach completely new target groups,” Pelzer added.
NanoWizard II setup mounted on a Zeiss Axiovert 200.