Origins

OmniTek was founded in 1979 by William Wagelaar and started out as a scientific glassblowing company : Wagelaar Glasinstrumenten (literally Wagelaar Glass Instruments). As a highly skilled glasblower, with many years of experience gained within both industrial and university surroundings, he set out to provide sophisticated and specialized scientific glassware to laboratories and research facilities in The Netherlands and abroad. During the eighties, the company's size and reputation as a problem solver and supplier of quality instruments rapidly grew. Our close contact with our customers enabled us to provide many custom-made solutions to individual problems.

Development

With a keen interest in automation and advanced measuring techniques, we always strived to supply our customers with the latest in technology. Halfway through the nineties, our ever-increasing expertise in the field of analysis techniques and automation led to a gradual shift toward the development and production of advanced, fully automated measuring equipment. Targeting specific niches in the market, such as the plastics and petrochemical industries, this branch of activities became more and more significant to the company as a whole.

In our traditional market, scientific glassware, important changes were taking place: there was a severe decline in market demand for custom-made glassware. The same automation that we had always advocated and applied in our solutions, had effectively helped in eliminating the usefulness of custom glassware. Automation was entering the laboratories at an unprecedented pace. Secondly, it proved that finding people with the skills and mindset to function as a high-level scientific glassblower, became practically impossible. This accelerated the a.m. shift even further until, at the beginning of 2000, we decided to cease our glass production entirely and further intensify our focus on our analysers. Only a small-scale production of the popular standard vacuum product range "Eurovac" was maintained.

Because of these radical changes, and because our playing field was becoming more and more international, the company's name was changed to OmniTek.

Present & Future

Over the course of the past decade, our activities have focused more and more on the oil industry, and more in particular on used oil analysis. With our strong product line of viscometry systems we have reached many laboratories around the world.

At the beginning of 2010, we have expanded our range of products in used oil testing and condition monitoring with the distribution of the reputable US based company, Spectro Inc. This company has been on the forefront of used oil analysis and condition monitoring, allowing us to provide our customers with a complete toolbox for oil testing.

OmniTek will always have the customer's interest in mind. We will continue our own development to bring our customers the equipment that they need, at a price they can afford and with a service level that exceeds their expectation. Expect more news on new products soon !