TMC’s research efforts and manufacturing innovations have established a series of industry “firsts” in product design and manufacturing techniques.

Examples include:

• CleanTop^® is the first and still the best way to render an optical top spillproof: by epoxying a nylon cup under each tapped hole. All competitive designs attempt the same end, but, constrained by our patent, sacrifice overall table features.
• TMC optical tops are the first to register the honeycomb cells to the tapped hole pattern.
• Our patented Gimbal Piston™ isolators are rugged, dry, oil-free, air isolators that isolate the work surface from both vertical and horizontal vibration with high efficiency at low cost.
• Quiet Island^® sub-floor platforms are a breakthrough in supporting sensitive equipment in a cleanroom, raised-floor environment with rigid, pneumatic, or piezoelectric support.
• The ClassOne™ workstation is the first all electro-polished, stainless steel vibration isolation system.
• STACIS^® is simply the most advanced vibration isolation system commercially available, employing an active piezoelectric vibration isolation system.
• TMC's new 730 Series Optical Top has combined our inherently clean CleanTop^® design with several new proprietary design features, cleaning methods, and a vacuum pump-down procedure to achieve a level of vacuum compatibility previously unattainable.