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"The WALZ Company is located in the vicinity of Nürnberg, the Frankonian capital in southern Germany. It has been devoted for almost 25 years to the development and manufacturing of specialized scientific instruments, such as systems for measuring gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence in green plants. Innovative technologies, outstanding quality, as well as excellent service and technical support characterize the company`s primary goals. Hence, originality and reliability of its products have gained the WALZ Company a high reputation and numerous customers all over the world."

"The WALZ Company was founded in 1972 by Heinz Walz, who previously had been working for 20 years in the Research & Development division of SIEMENS, where he made substantial contributions to the development of Peltier elements and their manufacturing process. This know-how then was successfully applied in the own company for
the development of climatized gas exchange measuring systems, cold traps and measuring gas coolers, as well as dewpoint mirror measuring systems."


"In 1985 the WALZ Company acquired the exclusive rights for production of the Pulse-Amplitude-Modulated (PAM) Chlorophyll Fluorometers, originally developed and patented by Dr. Ulrich Schreiber, a well-known researcher in chlorophyll fluorescence and photosynthesis at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Since the first PAM Fluorometer had been introduced in 1985, the PAM-family has been continuously growing, with the Portable Fluorometers PAM-2000 and MINI-PAM being conceived for field investigations, the TEACHING-PAM mainly developed for teaching courses, the recently introduced XE-PAM opening new ways for ultra-sensitive analysis of phytoplankton and the brand-new DIVING-PAM being specialized for in situ underwater investigations."

"To date, besides being engaged in the production of the PAM Fluorometer family and of gas exchange measuring systems, like the Portable Photosynthesis System HCM-1000 and the Compact Minicuvette System CMS-400, the Heinz Walz GmbH continues in the development of novel instrumentation, particularly for photosynthesis research,
in close cooperation with leading scientists."