Totex

Totex Corporation is a Japanese manufacturer of meteorological balloons. The company began production of balloons in 1937.

A TX balloon at Cambridge Bay Upper Air station, Nunavut, Canada

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 TX balloon is the standard used by Environment Canada in their Upper Air program (see Radiosonde).^[1]