About Us

CRYOGENIC are world leaders in cryogenic engineering and cryogen-free technology and have extensive experience in the manufacture of high field solenoids and split pair superconducting magnets. CRYOGENIC is renowned in low temperature research and material science laboratories worldwide for delivering high quality measurement systems and providing the highest magnetic fields and lower temperatures.

CRYOGENIC has over thirty years experience in the design and manufacture of cryomagnetic instrumentation for both laboratory research and industrial applications.

We are actively committed to developing new products for our existing and future customers. These include our wide range of Liquid Helium Free Magnet systems and Variable Temperature Inserts that are easy to operate and offer significant operational cost benefits. Applications include standard laboratory systems, novel MRI imaging magnets and magnetic separation systems with both wet and dry separation processes. A wide range of automated systems is now available using sophisticated data acquisition software and hardware running under the LabVIEW operating environment.

CRYOGENIC has been supplying the scientific community with Cryogen Free magnet systems for the past 12 years.

Our aim is to deliver the best cryogenic processing equipment at fair prices designed to do the job reliably, using the latest technology without unnecessary cosmetic features. We put great emphasis on robust construction and the best use of materials. Many of our measurement systems, magnet power supplies and cryostats are still in everyday use after more than 20 years. We believe in providing the backup our customers expect with the personal and responsible approach to be expected of professionals with more than 30 years experience in magnetism and low temperature systems.

CRYOGENIC has delivered more than 100 Cryogen-free systems of varying complexity.

Team Profile

Dr. Jeremy Good – Director
Director Educated at Oxford University receiving a D.Phil. Over 40 years experience in the field of Cryogenic technology and has filed over a dozen patents for inventions relating to magnet construction and applications. He is an eminent scientist and an engineer, internationally known among the Physics community.

Dr. Renny Hall – Sales Director
Responsible for new business development and has built up major contacts worldwide both with customers and suppliers of superconductor and other key materials. He also provides technical and sales support to production and sales departments.

Dr. Rick Hapanowicz – North American Sales Manager

Responsible for Sales and Support in North America.

Dr. Roger Mitchell – Technical Director
Responsible for both Cryogen free and liquid helium based research systems. Also in charge of development of the company’s core magnet technology and organisation of larger projects. Manages a very large design team.

Mr. Miroslaw Owczarkowski – Electronics Manager
Responsible for design and development of electronics and related software and manages a team for manufacture of companys’ electronics products.

Dr. Thomas Holubar – Senior Project Engineer
Responsible for design and development of both hardware and software of SQUID based instruments. He also provides installation support for computer controlled instruments.

Dr. Marc Bennett – Project Engineer

Responsible for the design and management of projects including liquid helium and cryogen free systems.

Dr. Jonathan Warren – Sales Engineer
Responsible for international sales and installation of measurement systems.

Dr Darko Bracanovic – Project Engineer

Responsible for design and development of magnet systems.

Dr. Owen Taylor – Project Engineer

Responsible for the design and development of measurement systems, including VSM, Specific Heat and RnX.

Technical Firsts

1968

Worlds’ first filamentary NbTi magnet constructed from a prototype length of IMI (Birmingham) NbTi wire, 2km length, 0.375mm diameter.

This coil achieved 6.9 Tesla at 4.2K and 8.9 Tesla at 1.3K which was then a record for NbTi magnets. The conductor was not twisted during fabrication and the construction and test of this coil, including measuring the flux jumps and remanent field, demonstrated the need for twisting the filaments to reduce electro-magnetic coupling between them.

1971

Manufacture of first NbTi coil to achieve more than 11.5 Tesla at reduced temperature.

1973

Manufacture of filamentary NbTi coil for IMI Titanium for the conductor test facility. This was in use for more than 20 years and achieved what we believe to be a record number of thermal and magnetic cycles.

1977

First filamentary Nb3Sn commercial coil made for Mr J Doulat, CENG, Grenoble, France. 13 Tesla, 50mm bore.

1980

Manufacture of a laboratory scale Helium-free magnet for dry and wet separation experiments at Imperial College. Funded by English China Clays.

1982

* 400mm bore, 1.2 metres long, hexapole with axial solenoids for the ECR Source at Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, designed and constructed. This magnet was supplied with a low loss cryostat and high current magnet power supply. The coil weighed approximately 500kg and was wound with 2mm diameter conductor operating at 450 Amps. Cryocooler assisted unit.

* Manufacture of two cryogen-free magnets for dry industrial mineral processing on a lab/pilot plant scale for Foskar and Anglo-American in South Africa.

1983

Four section 14 Tesla Nb3Sn magnet for National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, London. A near world record for a commercial research magnet.

Large bore wide access split pair magnet and cryostat for Karlsruhe and SIN (now PSI) to be used as an anti-cyclotron magnet to trap and decelerate elementary particles. The coil has a peak field on the conductor of 8.5 Tesla and is supplied on a cantilevered magnet former. The 4K magnet weight is approximately 1 tonne. The coil is now’ magnetically shielded with soft iron fitted by the customer.

1987

5 Tesla, 1 metre long magnet in iron shielded cryostat delivered to Kansas State University, USA.

1988

15 Tesla 40mm bore test magnet delivered to Vacuumschmeize GmbH. Germany.

1989

Delivery of the first industrial scale reciprocating magnet to Goonvean using the Helium-free technology.

1990

Superconductor test facility built generating 12 Tesla (4.2K) in 150mm bore for Hitachi Cable, Japan

1991

Selected as manufacturer for INFN-LASA 4.2K facility SOLEMI-2 (15 Tesla, 240mm bore) and SOLEMI-3 (18 Tesla. 100+ mm bore). (Magnet coil weight 1 tonne).

1992

Winner of the Department of Trade and Industry SMART Award (Small Firm Merit Award for Research and Technology) Stage 1.

1995

600mm bore 6 Tesla cryomagnet system built for a nuclear research unit in Catania Sicily. The magnet incorporates 46 Tonnes of Iron.

1996

Built a 5 Tesla Cryogen Free fast ramp magnet (60 secs) coil for KFK Karlsruhe for use in water treatment research.

1998

Built a 0.8 metre diameter 1.2 metre long iron shielded cryogen-free magnet for MRI development.

1999

Built a 6.5 Tesla 200mm bore magnet for beam line work at the Australian National University.

2000

Built a 14 Tesla 80mm room temperature bore Cryogen Free magnet system for a beam line facility in Japan.

2001

* 5 Tesla Cryogen Free Magnet with integrated Cryogen Free Variable Temperature Insert for Cairo University, Egypt.

* 8 Tesla Split pair Cryogen Free Magnet for Neutron diffraction.

* 10T 100mm bore Cryogen Free Magnet with compensated coil for Mossbauer for Upsala University.

2002

* 6.5 Tesla Split High homogeneity Cryogen Free Magnet for Sophia University, Japan.

* 12T split with VTI for STM for China.

* 20 Tesla Magnet system.

2003

* Large 400mm bore Cryogen Free Magnet with 4.5 Tesla field.

2004

* Ten Coil Cryogen Free Beam line Magnet  4 metres long.

* Cryogen Free Magnet system utilizing dual cryocoolers.

2005

*  Desk Top Cryogen Free Magnets to 9 Tesla and 2 inch RT bore