Quantum Design

We provide well-founded and independent advice catered to your individual requirements and see ourselves as agents between highly specialized manufacturers and science. We are a leading European distributor of high-quality scientific instruments and components. For more than 50 years, Quantum Design Europe has been one of the leading distributors of high-tech systems and components for research and industry. With 120 employees in 20 European countries, we offer the broadest selection with an exciting mix of suppliers from long-established corporations on the one hand and innovative start-up companies on the other. We started in 1970 as Oriel GmbH, as representative of Oriel Instruments, an American manufacturer of components and systems for the optical laboratory. Later names changes document a change of ownership and the expansion of our product portfolio. We offer components and systems used in materials science, imaging, spectroscopy, photonics, nanotechnology and life science research. We were founded 50 years ago and employ more than 120 dedicated staff across Europe.