Company

Petrotest® Instruments - Petroleum Test Equipment since 1873!

1873      Berthold Pensky founded his own company started
               producing flashpoint testers, viscometers and other
              machinery.

               The Pensky-Martens flashpoint tester was born!

1886      Pensky sold his company to Wilhelm Sommer and
               Max Runge. Products were marketed in Germany,
               Romania, Russia and the Netherlands already.

1943      In World War II the company Sommer and Runge (SuR) was utilized to manufacture
               airplane parts. During the bombing of Berlin the factory was partially destroyed and
               had to move to other quarters.

1948      A manufacturing line of mineral oil test instruments for the German speaking market
              was started.

1991     Following the reunification of Germany, SuR reformed and renamed under the name
              Petrotest® Instruments GmbH & Co. KG.

1996     Due to the need for expansion Petrotest® relocated to a brand new building in the
               Dahlewitz Industrial Park on the outskirts of Berlin.

2005      Approx. 60 employees are engaged in the production of mechanical and electronic
               laboratory instruments, such as flashpoint tester, distillation units, penetrometer,
               Fraass breaking point tester, etc.

               Further improvement and development of automatic petroleum test equipment can
              be expected.

               In order to be a highly flexible and reliable partner to our customers, we decided to
               locate the entire range of branches needed in our company under one roof.

                 • Application

                 • Customer Care Centre

                 • Electronical & Mechanical Design

                 • Software Development

                 • Production & CNC-machinery

                 • Assembling

                 • Quality Control

                 • Marketing

                 • Order & Shipping

                 • Stockage

               This gives us the potentiality to provide even customized solutions.

               Please tell us your needs!