In the town of Dronfield, just outside Sheffield, lies the headquarters of Land Instruments International, now known as AMETEK Land. The company has been based here for 75 years.
"We were born out of the Sheffield steel industry, which was booming then, and is still booming, but now it’s moving in a different direction,” says
David Primhak, Director of Sales and Product Management at
AMETEK Land.
“We originally manufactured thermocouples but now produce many different types of pyrometers and temperature measurement devices. Over the last 75 years, our specialism has evolved into a non-contact temperature measurement. We measure the energy being emitted by an object to understand its temperature using tools such as thermal imagers & line scanners.”
Over the years
AMETEK Land has also developed acombustion efficiency product line with their products serving
steel, hydrocarbon processing, glass manufacturing and power generation, but these are just some of the markets the company operates in. AMETEK Land is present wherever there are high temperatures or gas to measure, all around the world.
“As well as our headquarters in Dronfield we have service centres in Pittsburgh, Dubai, Bangalore, Shanghai, Osaka and throughout Europe,” Primhak says.
That said,
Primhak is clearly proud that
AMETEK Land is a locally based business.
“We are in total about 150 people, with two-thirds of us based in Dronfield,” he says.
“We are proud to employ a lot of local people. Everyone in Dronfield knows who Land are, even if they might not know what we do because it’s a niche technology.”
A UNIQUE CULTURE
As well as being a local business,
AMETEK Land has traditionally been a family business, owned by the Land family. That was until 2006 when the company was bought out by
AMETEK, an American corporation specialising in differentiated electronic instruments and electromechanical devices.
“Their strategy was an acquisition, but not according to a standard blueprint,” Primhak tells us. “They let us run the business while maintaining our own culture and the ethos, and that has been the key to our success.”
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