Industrial Safety Technologies Acquires Simtronics
June 1, 2013
Industrial Safety Technologies (IST) announced the addition of Simtronics AS (Oslo, Norway) and Simtronics SAS (Aubagne, France) to its platform. The companies are being acquired from UTC Climate, Controls & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp. Simtronics is a provider of gas and flame detection systems for use in applications ranging from plant boiler rooms to offshore petrochemical facilities. The business also designs and installs fire and gas systems for a number of markets including nuclear power plants.
The Simtronics brand will remain intact and will operate as an independent company within the IST platform. IST's mission is to create a full line of integrated technology based detection products and services targeting heavy industrial applications.
Simtronics joins other brands in the IST family, including:
- Gas Measurement Instruments (GMI) (Scotland): gas detection with a particular strength in portable products for gas distribution, oil and gas and shipping markets.
- Detcon (Texas): gas detection sensors and control systems, with strength in fixed and wireless gas detection products for the oil and gas market.
- DSA Detection (Massachusetts): consumables for explosives and narcotics trace detectors (ETD).
For more information contact:
Industrial Safety Technologies
www.industrialsafetytechnologies.com
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