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About SIGNAL RECOVERY
SIGNAL RECOVERY is part of AMETEK Advanced
Measurement Technology, and designs, manufactures and sell lock-in
amplifiers, signal averagers, amplifiers, light choppers and specialized
voltmeters. We have been involved in this business since one of our
constituent companies invented the lock-in amplifier, giving us a unique
insight into the areas of research in which our products are used and the
ability to really help customers solve difficult measurement problems.
For many years we traded under the EG&G and Brookdeal Electronics
company names, with a brief period as part of PerkinElmer Instruments.
These changes of ownership have led to our products carrying several
different brand names, but since 2001 we have consistently used the SIGNAL
RECOVERY name. But if you want to know a little more about
our history, read on...
In 1972 EG&G purchased Brookdeal Electronics, a British company
specializing in signal recovery instrumentation. At that time Brookdeal
Electronics was well known throughout Europe and the Pacific Rim countries
but relatively unknown in the USA. For some years therefore its products
were distributed in the US by another EG&G company, ORTEC. Since
ORTEC was a well known and respected US instrument company, the products
carried the "ORTEC Brookdeal" brand name.
Several years later, in 1977, EG&G purchased "Princeton
Applied Research" (PAR), a US company manufacturing scientific
instrumentation which included a portfolio of signal recovery products.
Since some of the products from PAR were similar to those offered by
Brookdeal Electronics, a rationalization of the joint product lines took
place over the following years and ultimately in 1986 PAR became the
operating company and Brookdeal was closed. However much of the original
expertise of the joint organization remained in the UK and so significant
R&D and marketing has been conducted from the UK ever since.
Early in 1999 EG&G successfully completed the acquisition of Perkin
Elmer’s analytical instruments business, a leading producer of high
quality instruments and consumables. The transaction was part of an
overall strategy by EG&G to focus its activities on meeting the needs
of research and commercial customers requiring high-technology products
and systems. An extensive market research campaign during the summer of
that year revealed that the brand name Perkin Elmer was significantly
better known by these customers than that of EG&G. Consequently,
following stockholder approval and with effect from October 26, 1999, the
corporation changed its name to PerkinElmer, Inc. Our products, too, were
re-branded with the PerkinElmer name.
In December 2001 SIGNAL RECOVERY became
part of the AMETEK group following the acquisition of the Instruments for
Research and Applied Spectrometry (IRAS) Division from PerkinElmer, Inc.
At that time, the IRAS division was renamed Advanced Measurement
Technology, Inc (AMT), and at the same time the decision was taken to
market the products under the the three constituent product brands of ORTEC
(instruments for measuring nuclear radiation), PRINCETON APPLIED RESEARCH (instruments
for electrochemistry), and SIGNAL RECOVERY.
In October 2005 Solartron Analytical, a UK based supplier of
electrochemistry instrumentation, was purchased by AMETEK and also became
part of the AMETEK AMT group.
We acknowledge our history as PAR, Brookdeal Electronics, EG&G and
PerkinElmer, are confident that as SIGNAL RECOVERY
we are continuing to meet our customers' needs, and look forward to
serving you.
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a trademark of AMETEK, Inc.