Well, by now you have probably heard that we have some pretty unusual weather in the eastern NC area. We don’t see much snow and ice here and, when we do, it shuts everything down. As you can see from this pic of the highway to our office it is solid ice and we have asked our employees to stay home until the conditions are safe to drive. If you need assistance before we get back in the office we have phone numbers on our message machine that you can use to contact our on-call people. Also our AZ and OR offices are working as usual so they can help you as well. We expect it will be Monday, 2/3/14, before we get our NC office back in full operation. Thanks for your patience.

We would like to welcome the newest member of the Coastal Instruments, Inc. team, Josh Trillizio, who has joined us in our North Carolina office as Information Technology Technician. We will probably cook something to celebrate, we usually do.

A big thank you to all of our employees for their continued commitment and hard work, and to our customers for entrusting us with their business in 2013. Happy New Year to all from Coastal Instruments, Inc..

All Coastal-US offices will be closed for the holidays December 23-27, 2013, and January 1, 2014. As always, if you need assistance during this time we will have emergency contact phone numbers available on the answering machines at each of US offices.

Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday season from all of us at Coastal.

We decorated the Ural side car to ride in the local Christmas parade as our Coastal Instruments, Inc. float, but the weather was so bad we decided to skip the parade. Since we already had it decorated we hated to waste our effort, so Bob and Syd decided to just ride around town and have our own parade on Tuesday night. Here’s our ride in front of our company tree. We had fun without the parade.

Coastal Instruments, your Mass Flow Controller Specialists for the last 33 years, is proud to announce our capability to service the Horiba STEC Z-300 series devices. This includes the Z-300, Z-310, Z-312, and Z-314 models. In case you are wondering, the Z-300 is the same as the Z-500 series device but it is configured to operate with the LAM tool digital protocol. As usual, you have already been told that no else can service these, and as usual, you have been misinformed, again. If you have these and need service or replacement devices setup to your exact specifications, give us a call. 1-800-632-4357.

Today we are hosting a delegation from Sensirion in our North Carolina office, http://www.sensirion.com/. Sensirion is the leading manufacturer of high-quality sensors and sensor solutions for the measurement and control of humidity, gas and liquid flows. Founded in 1998 as a spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, the company is based in Stäfa, near Zurich, Switzerland, and currently employs around 550 people in countries such as the USA, South Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, and Germany. The headquarters in Switzerland is responsible for research, development, and production. Sensirion will be training us to service their newest line of digital flow control products. We are proud that Sensirion has chosen Coastal Instruments, Inc. to be an official service supplier for their flow products in the US and China.

We would like to welcome Tony Chen, Shanghai Xizi International Trading Company, Ltd, as our sales representative in Shanghai, China. Over the past several years Tony has been a good customer, and a good friend, to our Coastal Instruments, Dandong, China, operation. We welcome Tony to the Coastal family and we look forward to a long, prosperous relationship. Please contact Tony if you need mass flow controller service in the Shanghai area. Email: tony.chen@shxizi.com Cell phone +86 18602110990.