Orbis BV
About orbis bv Somewhere in the 1970’s, Paul Bruggeman moved from The Netherlands to Lauda in Germany. He started working together with Mr. Walter Herzog to develop laboratory instruments for testing physical properties of petroleum products according to ASTM methods. Instruments for tests such as atmospheric distillation, flash point, cloud & pour point, cold filter plugging point, viscosity, vapor pressure, etc. In those days, all these tests were carried out by hand. If the test required something to be heated, a flame was used. Need to cool something? Take an ice water bath. Measure a temperature? Use a mercury thermometer. Any sample detection and data logging were done by the operator, simply with the use of pen and paper. Being “tech savvy”, Paul stood front in line when the first computer came out, and he started to think about ways to use computer automation in petroleum tests. When he left Herzog GmbH as a Director in 1995, the company had a reputation for having innov
