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News Release from: Ametek Calibration Instruments
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 29 June 2006
Ametek acquires Land Instruments
International
Ametek, a global supplier of high-end analytical instrumentation and headquartered in Paoli, Pennsylvania, USA, has acquired Land Instruments International, Dronfield, UK.
Ametek, a global supplier of high-end analytical instrumentation, publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and headquartered in Paoli, Pennsylvania, USA, has acquired Land Instruments International Land Instruments International, based in Dronfield, Derbyshire, UK, joins Ametek as part of its Electronic Instruments Group (EIG) - which markets advanced monitoring, testing, calibration and display instruments for the process, aerospace and power industries worldwide
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 24 Oct 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Specialising globally in industrial temperature measurement, combustion and emissions monitoring Land also has subsidiary offices based in the USA, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Mexico and Japan.
The Land business will become part of Ametek's Process and Analytical Instruments Division and will remain at its HQ location in Dronfield.
Ametek Land will operate as a business unit within the P and AI division, and will continue to focus on providing high quality industrial infrared temperature measurement, combustion efficiency and environmental pollutant emissions analyzers to our customers.
"Land Instruments is an excellent addition to our high-end process and analytical instruments business.
With this acquisition, our high-end analytical instruments business now totals nearly US$500 million in annualized sales," noted Frank S Hermance, Ametek chairman and chief executive officer.
"Land Instruments offers a full range of on-line temperature measurement instrumentation for industrial applications, including infrared thermometers, linescanners and thermal imagers.
These instruments, which measure temperatures up to 3000 degrees Celsius, are widely used by the metal, glass and mineral processing industries.
The addition of Land Instruments' high temperature monitoring and control systems expands AMETEK's on-line process monitoring capabilities, adding to our existing strengths in on-line composition and moisture analysis," continued Hermance.
"In addition, Land Instruments' combustion efficiency and environmental monitoring products, widely used in the power and process industries, nicely complement our existing Thermox product line.
Higher energy prices and ever more stringent environmental regulations are growth drivers for these instruments," he concluded.
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