Jeff Jennings

As part of our ongoing ten-year anniversary celebration, Equilibar has become an official sponsor of FRC TEAM 1225, the Henderson County Public Schools Robotics Team. The robotics program is a perfect fit for Equilibar because it promotes science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning for students in our own community. “Every day, we work with Read More

David Reed Combines Love of History with Competitive Sport Equilibar Operations Manager David Reed has enjoyed colonial and early American history throughout his life. He’s also found a way to combine history with competitive sport by participating in rifle musket competitions throughout the Eastern and Southern United States. He recently competed at the US Nationals Read More

Equilibar is pleased to announce the release of the LVF back pressure regulator, a miniature, low dead volume version of its low flow back pressure regulator. The LVF comes exclusively in 1/16″ size ports, either HPLC (10-32) style threads or HiP AF1 style. The unit has a maximum flow coefficient (Cv) of 0.01. Equilibar developed Read More

From the beginning, Equilibar has been privileged to work with global customers on almost every continent. Today, close to half of our sales are international. We feel extremely fortunate to be involved in cutting-edge multinational efforts, and it is gratifying to do our part to address global problems such as climate change and the shortage Read More

The fourth annual Gran Fondo Asheville, a cycling race to benefit the Friends of the Smokies, was held on July 23 with 500 bicyclists participating. Once again, Equilibar was happy to provide volunteers and to serve as sponsor for the event. Equilibar engineering manager Tony Tang and inventory specialist Scott Phifer spent the day working Read More

Bronkhorst High-Tech B.V. is a global manufacturer of fluid handling equipment for a wide range of industries and research areas. In a recent Application Note, they highlighted the successful use of Equilibar’s dome-loaded back pressure regulator paired with a Bronkhorst pressure controller to provide reliable pressure control during catalysis research. Catalysis research is used in a Read More

Good News! This summer, we are celebrating our tenth anniversary here at Equilibar. We marked this huge milestone with a cake-cutting celebration featuring Equilibar Founder Jeff Jennings and Julie Detmering, our amazing customer service manager who has been with us for all ten years. ~~~ It was just after Memorial Day in 2007 that Jeff moved his start-up Read More

The 25th North American Meeting (NAM) of the Catalysis Society is this week in Denver, Colorado. This biennial meeting is widely recognized as the premier topical conference for matters related to heterogeneous catalysis, while also including broad coverage of homogeneous catalysis, electro-catalysis and photo-catalysis. Equilibar engineers Ryan Heffner and Alan Black are in Booth 315 Read More

Equilibar’s newest customer response team members help us provide the ultimate level of customer support. It is our pleasure to introduce them: Alan Black, application engineer, has a degree in physics from North Carolina State University where he did undergraduate research in computational astrophysics. His aptitude for complicated pressure control challenges was apparent from Day Read More

The petroleum industry has stringent requirements for pressure control during core analysis experiments, which involve tests of rock samples to determine oil and gas content. In pyrolysis testing, rock samples are analyzed to measure the hydrocarbon content that can be evolved at different temperatures while maintaining a safe and consistent pressure. In related core flooding Read More