澳大利亚Newport Scientific(Newport Scientific)     
瑞典波通仪器公司8月6号宣布已经完成对澳大利亚仪器制造公司Newport Scientific Pty Ltd的收购。
根据收购条约规定的，Newport Scientific 将继续保留其粘度测定法为基础的仪器，包括Newport Scientific广为人知的用于检测食品和谷物的RVA和doughLAB两大品牌产品，波通公司将通过自己的网络和整个所属的销售渠道负责其大部分的销售。

Australia is the worlds 4th biggest exporter and 6th biggest producer of wheat, and grain is one of Australia’s most important rural exports. So when one quarter of the 1983 wheat crop was lost to pre-harvest sprouting, the consequences were catastrophic for Australia’s economy and rural Australians.
The Australian Wheat board urgently sought a new test method that would be accurate, objective, simple, rapid and reliable, even at grain receival elevators (silos) in a hot and dusty Australian summer.

Two years later the first Rapid Visco™ Analyser, a stirring and cooking viscometer was ready for field trial. The RVA measured weather damage in wheat in a 3 minute test, by pasting the starch in the sample until the a-amylase activity was largely completed, and the viscosity stabilised. Today the RVA looks a little different than it did in 1985, and the 3 minute RVA “Stirring Number Test” has been accepted by the AACC as standard method number 22-08, and the ICC as standard number 161.

In 1987 Newport Scientific Pty Ltd produced the first controlled heating and cooling RVA, and evaluation of the potential of the RVA for starch characterisation began. Starch pasting quality assessment quickly developed as the RVA’s main application, with rapid starch pasting methods being adopted as standard methods of both the AACC and ICC in the mid 1990s.

Today, Newport Scientific Pty Ltd continues to respond to market needs for a wider diversity of applications, incorporating variable shear, extended viscosity range, and more powerful control and analysis software into the latest models of the RVA. These days the RVA is distributed worldwide to be used in a wide range of both research and commercial applications, and both the number of RVA users and the library of published applications continues to grow. The RVA has been used in breeding programs; at grain receival and storage; in flour milling; for assessment of raw ingredient and final product quality for extrusion of snack foods, breakfast cereals and pet foods; selection of wheats suitable for noodle manufacture; characterisation of rice, potato, tapioca, wheat, corn and other starches; control of the commercial starch modification process; and in the brewing industry.

Recent publications have established novel applications for protein testing, including wheat gluten, soy protein and milk proteins, extruded products and aquaculture feeds, hydrocolloids, processed cheese and manufactured foods.

Rodney Booth
Under the leadership of Managing Director, Rodney Booth, Newport Scientific Pty Ltd continues to complement its integrated research and development program, with collaboration with experts in both the government and private sector, to provide novel solutions to many of the problems now faced in the grain and food based industries.

Recent additions to the product line include a range of grinding mills for sample preparation and doughLAB a flexible dough rheometer which performs AACC standard method number 54-21 and ICC standard number 115/1 and also offers variable temperature and speed mixing to emulate commercial mixing conditions.

Newport Scientific was acquired by Perten Instruments AB of Stockholm Sweden in August 2007. The Perten Instruments Group are specialists in quality control of Grain, Flour, Food and Feed. The instrument range includes the Falling Number system, Inframatic and Diode Array near-infrared analysers, the Glutomatic System, the Aquamatic grain moisture meter, laboratory mills and single kernel analysers.

Newport Scientific will continue to deliver its viscometry based instruments; the Rapid Visco Analyser range, and the doughLAB range under the well known Newport Scientific brand.

The complimentary nature of the instrument range from Perten Instruments and Newport Scientific offers a wider range of analytical solutions to customers from a single source.