Tailored solutions in gas analysis

摘要

Immersed as it is in instruments, detectors and total analytical engineering solutions, Belgium-based Orthodyne is at the forefront of the gas analysis and control market. But that wasn't always the case. Orthodyne's roots were as a family business manufacturing wireless (radio) sets in the 1920s, an involvement that lasted almost 30 years. With the increasing importation of transistor radios from the US in the early 1950s, however, the wireless business began to dwindle and Orthodyne demonstrated its ability to react to market forces by promptly diversifying its activities. The company began producing chromatograph appliances to measure impurities in argon used for welding, primarily in its native Belgium market, and soon found its customer base widening to both Germany and France. Orthodyne's structure and product range grew to include new high purity detectors for industrial and laboratory applications and the company played a pioneering role in this field as it developed in-house analytical software and its own engineering department.