Koehler Instrument Company, Inc.
Koehler Instrument, or Koehler, is a US company which provides petroleum and petrochemical testing equipment and technical support services to testing laboratories worldwide. The company’s corporate headquarters is in Holtsville, NY and the manufacturing headquarters is in Bohemia, NY.
Industry | Petroleum industry Petroleum |
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Founded | 1947 |
Headquarters | Holtsville, New York, USA |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Roy Westerhaus (President) |
Products | Petroleum Testing Equipment |
Website | KoehlerInstrument.com |
Koehler Instrument Company offers a full line of instruments for testing biofuels, fuels, lubes, greases as well as an extensive selection of tribology or wear testing instruments. All Koehler products conform to the latest ASTM, ISO, IP and related international specifications.
Industry involvement
Koehler Instrument Company has been an active member of the American Society for Testing Materials, or ASTM, since 1947.
Other organizations that Koehler holds membership with include the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers [1] and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.[2] Koehler is also an active member of the National Association of Lubricating Grease Manufacturers, Inc. (NLGI), with a representative on the Board of Directors.[3]
Each year, Koehler Instrument Company attends conferences and expositions related to the petroleum testing industry.[4] Some of the conferences that Koehler has exhibited at during recent years include the Pittsburgh Conference and Exposition,[5] National Biodiesel Conference and Expo,[6] and the Gulf Coast Conference.[7] Koehler also attends the STLE annual meeting [8] and the European Lubricating Grease Institute (ELGI) meeting each year.[9]
Testing laboratory
Koehler's petroleum-testing laboratory provides in-house testing services for the analysis of petroleum products, lubricants, petrochemicals, asphalts, composites and other related products.[10] The laboratory is also involved with research and development of test equipment. Some of the specific ASTM tests run at the Koehler laboratory include oxidation stability, flash point, distillation, and viscosity.[11]
Products
Koehler Instrument Company manufactures over 150 different types of instruments, all of which conform to ASTM, IP, ISO or other international standards.[12] Some of Koehler's major product lines are viscosity, flash point, tribology, penetration, distillation and biofuels test equipment. Other products include colorimeters, centrifuges, oxidation stability units, automatic titration units, and cloud point and pour point testers.[13] Koehler offers full lines of instruments for testing biofuels, fuels, lubes and greases.
References
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-08-02. Retrieved 2009-07-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Membership of Tribologists and Lubrication Archived 2008-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
- Membership of National Association of Lubricating Grease Manufacturers Archived 2008-05-12 at the Wayback Machine
- "The conference records". Archived from the original on 2009-06-20. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
- Pittsburgh Conference records Archived 2009-09-01 at the Wayback Machine
- Biodiesel Conference records Archived 2009-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
- Gulf Coast Conference records Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine
- the STLE annual meeting records Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ELGI meeting records Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine
- "Koehler Instrument in Russia". Retrieved 2014-02-01.
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