Totex
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A TA balloon at Cambridge Bay Upper Air station, Nunavut, Canada
Totex Corporation is a Japanese manufacturer of meteorological balloons. The company began production of balloons in 1937.
They currently produce three types of balloons:
- TA is a rubber/latex balloon and was developed in 1940.
- CR is a chloroprene balloon and was developed in 1966.
- TX is a latex balloon and was developed in 1988.
The TA balloon is the standard used by Environment Canada in their Upper Air program (see Radiosonde).
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