Established more than a half century ago Rudolph Instruments enjoys a worldwide reputation as a quality Instrument Designer
and Manufacturer.
Rudolph Instruments was founded by Hellmuth Rudolph in 1948. Hellmuth arrived in the United States as a young child with his
family in the 1920’s he completed his studies and graduated from the New Jersey College of Engineering.
At first he worked in his fathers business where he built his experience as an instrument designer by participating in the
development of the Model 80 Polarimeter the most innovative instrument of its time.
In 1948 Hellmuth founded Rudolph Instruments to further the independent design and development of new and innovative instruments
for the field of Polarimetry.
A devoted engineer Hellmuth Rudolph put great emphasis on precision, performance and customer service, solid principles which
still guide Rudolph Instruments today.
With Polarimeters in service all over the world, Rudolph Instruments is one of the most well known names in the field of
Polarimetry.
The customer list is a veritable Who's Who of Pharmaceutical and University Labs the world over.
Rudolph Instruments now located in the Denville Technical Park Denville NJ continues to design and build quality and innovative
instrumentation and is also a distributor of quality instrumentation including Digital Refractometers and a range of Trace Metal
Analyzers based on technology of Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Professor J. Heyrowsky.
Since introducing the World's first commercial automatic Polarimeter in 1959 Rudolph Instruments has had many first’s including
the World's first fully automatic Spectro Polarimeter, America's first microprocessor based automatic Polarimeter and
Saccharimeter.
The highly successful DigiPol-781 range of Automatic Polarimeters has become an industry standard to many users worldwide
The most recent development the DigiPol M6U a High precision UV/VIS automatic Polarimeter has found widespread acceptance as the
instrument of choice in many Pharmaceutical Laboratories and Research Institutes.