Our Company
MEINHARD has been in this industry for over 45 years and the choice of all the major ICP manufacturers in the world for quality sample introduction or automation components as required. Learn more about our group of companies!
Elemental Scientific
Automation and semiconductor on-line monitoring systems for liquid samples analysis
Elemental Scientific Lasers
Laser ablation systems for direct solids sampling and analysis
Who We Are
ICP/ICPMS Glass & Quartz Components Since 1974
As a leading manufacturer and global supplier of high precision nebulizers and scientific glassware, MEINHARD is the partner of choice for many of the world’s plasma spectroscopy instrument manufacturers. Our clients demand the highest levels of design, manufacturing, delivery, and customer service and MEINHARD has a rich legacy of meeting these critical requirements for over forty years.
Bring our expanded line of products into your lab today to experience a greater level of support, quality, and availability!
Geoff Coleman, Ph.D.
Senior Technical Advisor, President (retired)
Erica McConnell
Global Business, Product Development, and Operations
Pam Nickoles
Sales Associate
Flannery Abrahamson
Sales Associate
Meet Our Team
We Are Dedicated Industry Experts - The Team You Want For Your ICP/ICPMS Laboratory Needs
From applications that require high sensitivity to the fastest throughput, MEINHARD can supply products for all ICP and ICPMS needs. MEINHARD sample introduction accessories are used in every application and industry: environmental, clinical, food and water, geochemical, semiconductor fabrication, and many more.
Our History
Dr. James Meinhard was asked in 1973 if he could fabricate a concentric glass nebulizer for the inductively coupled plasma spectrometer, then in its infancy. Patterning his efforts after a century-old design (Gouy 1879) and working in a private shop, Dr. Meinhard drew capillaries and sealed them into prefabricated shells. The resultant MEINHARD concentric glass nebulizer was found to outperform a cross-flow nebulizer in tests conducted at Ames Laboratory in Iowa and subsequently was selected by a prominent instrument manufacturer as a standard part of its ICP sample introduction system. The first model featured the lapped, coplanar "Type A" nozzle. It remains popular to this day.
In 1983, J E Meinhard Associates, Inc introduced the "Type C" nebulizer which is designed to tolerate samples high in dissolved solids. The argon-conserving low-flow "Type K" followed a year later in a cooperative effort with an instrument manufacturer. The CIR was conceived in 1990 in collaboration with another manufacturer to operate with helium in its mass spectrometer.
Hybrid systems grew popular. In the early 1990's, J E Meinhard Associates Inc offered a small bore (SB) modification in response to demand for reduction in dead volume in HPLC-ICP and other hybrid techniques. The High Efficiency Nebulizer (HEN) was introduced for microsample analysis without loss of detection limits for use in standard ICP systems and FIA- and HPLC-ICP systems.
In 1997, in collaboration with a major university, J E Meinhard Associates, Inc offered a new innovation in direct injection nebulization, the Direct Injection High Efficiency Nebulizer (DIHEN) (US Pat. 6166379). The DIHEN offers the advantages of the HEN with the ability to nebulize the sample directly into the analytical plasma.
Meinhard Glass Products continues the evolution in nebulizer design.
The principle goal is to produce finer, more narrowly sized-dispersed aerosols while maintaining the high quality, low cost and simplicity of design and operation that characterize the MEINHARD nebulizer.