A supplier of electron microscopes and scientific instrumentation, !%JEOL USA%! of Peabody, Mass., and its parent company JEOL Ltd. of Akishima, Japan, have opened JEOL Brasil Instrumentos Cientificos Ltda. in Sao Paulo to support the growing installed base there, and they have relocated the personnel to a new facility. The company has a 40-year history in Brazil, much of it through its agent, Fugiwara Enterprises IC Ltda. As the number of customers has continued to grow in the region, the company decided to provide direct support through its own service engineers, and administrative and sales personnel.