Extech Instruments

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Extech Instruments

Type	Corporation
Founded	Waltham, MA, USA (1971)
Headquarters	Waltham, MA
Industry	Test Equipment and Portable Printers
Website	extech.com

Extech Instruments is a full-line supplier of handheld electronic measuring equipment, other handheld measuring instruments, and portable printers. Extech is based in Waltham, Massachusetts and was founded in 1971, now employing more than 80 people with gross revenues in 2004 of US$27 million. Extech also has facilities in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

[edit] Divisions

Extech Instruments has two divisions:

Instruments
- Thermal Imagers
- MultiMeters (DMM)
- ClampMeters
- Airflow Meters
- Light Meters
- Sound Meters
- Tachometers
- Pressure Meters
- Calibrators
- Water Quality Meters
- Moisture Meters
- Humidity Meters
- Contact and Non-Contact Thermometers (IR)
- Power Supplies
- Fiber Optic Meters

Portable Printers

Extech Instruments's handheld test instruments are sold through a network of national catalog houses, regional stocking distributors and international distributors. In addition to its US headquarters, Extech operates two design, manufacturing and warehousing facilities in Taiwan and Hong Kong and has a sales office in Shanghai, China. For the year ending Dec. 31, 2006, Extech reported revenue of $39.2 million.

Flir Systems Inc. announced Oct 2007, it will acquire the stock of Extech Instruments Corp., a private supplier of test and measurement equipment and portable receipt printers based in Waltham, Mass., for $40 million cash. Flir said the move will expand its access to distribution channels for its thermography products and provide access to low-cost manufacturing in Asia. The transaction, subject to standard closing conditions, is expected to close in the fourth quarter and to be neutral to earnings in 2008 and accretive in subsequent years.