Bringing thermal analysis closer to industry: The strategy behind Tour de TAN
ANTON PAAR Southern Africa’s Tour de TAN 2026 campaign represents a strategic shift in how advanced analytical technologies are introduced and adopted across the region. The campaign was developed to address a key challenge in the African market: accessibility to high-end instrumentation and application expertise.
The concept behind Tour de TAN is simple but effective: create structured, industry-focused engagement points throughout the year, allowing customers to interact directly with instrumentation in a practical, application-driven environment. Each quarter is dedicated to a specific sector, ensuring relevance and depth, while maintaining continuity across the campaign. Open Lab Days hosted at Anton Paar offices form the core of this approach, allowing for the opportunity to test samples, engage with specialists, and evaluate technologies.
At the centre of the campaign is the Julia DSC, part of Anton Paar’s expanding TAN (Thermal Analysis) portfolio. The introduction of differential scanning calorimetry strengthens the company’s broader materials characterisation offering that already includes solutions for rheometry, spectroscopy, and particle analysis. By integrating DSC into this portfolio, Anton Paar provides laboratories with a more complete toolkit for understanding material behaviour.
The Julia DSC has been developed to meet the evolving needs of modern laboratories, where speed, usability, and reliability are critical. The system features an aircooled Peltier module, enabling measurements down to -35°C without the need for external chillers, while interchangeable cooling modules allow rapid transition to cryogenic temperatures as low as -170°C.
Combined with Julia Suite software, which includes automated calibration routines and an intuitive method editor, the instrument is designed to reduce complexity while maintaining high analytical performance.
As part of the first phase of the campaign, Anton Paar hosted a dedicated polymer and R&D workshop at Sasol Modderfontein, bringing together industry professionals and researchers to explore material characterisation in practice. The workshop highlighted not only the Julia DSC, but also complementary technologies, including the MCR Rheometer, DMA, Lyza FTIR, Aquatrac, and Powder Cell.
The inclusion of TAN technologies within this broader instrument ecosystem reflects a growing demand for integrated workflows, particularly in polymer research and development, where thermal, mechanical, and chemical properties are closely interlinked.
Through Tour de TAN, Anton Paar is not only introducing new technology but also reinforcing a collaborative approach to scientific engagement.
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To enquire about Julia DSC please contact:
Product Manager, Zwelihle Ndlovu:
zwelihle.ndlovu@anton-paar.com
Junior Marketing Coordinator, Nelisa Ruselo:
nelisa.ruselo@anton-paar.com
