History of MS Laboratory Instruments

1957
MS Laboratory Instruments (formerly MS Instruments of Castleton, NY and then of Stony Creek, NY) began as a part time venture by Henry Maag (ME @ Celanese Plastics), Paul Stuber (Chemist @ Celanese) and Hans Schoenberger (Researcher @ DuPont). Henry had been involved in the evaluations of plastics in textiles and needed a test specimen cutting press. Remembering a small manual press that he used as an engineering student @ ETH (EIDGENOSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE- Zurich, Switzerland), he contacted them and was referred to NAEF in Zurich. Henry, together with the NAEF people redesigned the press for the cutting of test samples, especially the unique mechanical expulsion system. Then Henry purchased several presses for use @ Cellanese. Fellow researcher Schoenberger wanted a press for DuPont. The presses were a hit!
NAEF suggested that they form a US Company to distribute and support the sale of these presses to other researchers in the field of plastics. The field was small and many of the research people knew each other. Thus, in 1957 began SMS Company.
Soon after, Hans Schoenberger left to return to his homeland and family in Germany.
1960
The Company became MS Instruments with Paul Stuber as a silent partner, but in 1962, Mr Stuber's shares were purchased by Henry and his wife Elly Maag. By 1964, Henry had quit Celanese to pursue NAEF press & die sales on a full time basis and located the Company in Castleton, NY. In 1979, the Company was moved to Stony Creek, NY in the heart of the Adirondack Mts. When I met Henry in Stony Creek and asked him about living and working in such a beautiful (but remote) place, he said that "it reminded him of where he had been raised in Switzerland"
Henry died in 1993 and his wife carried on the business herself until 1999 when we purchased the Company, moved them to Fairport (Rochester) NY and changed their name to MS Laboratory Instruments in order to setup a website.
In addition to NAEF (and other) presses and dies, we added a second product line of Passive Diffusion Bags Sampling Hardware and Harnesses to support a new concept of sampling for certain contaminants in groundwater monitoring wells that are of interest to EPA.
Our mission credo is "to serve the customer making them more effective and more efficient."