CUSTOM SENSORS & TECHNOLOGY

History

Year	Detail
1980	Custom Sensors & Technology was founded in 1980 in a garage in suburban St. Louis and started producing the first integrated system that measured NO, NO2, and NOX. The ['nitrogen oxides were products of combustion reactions in the system’s controlled oven and heated sample lines.
1981	The company developed the Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR) probe to measure the concentration of highly absorbent liquids.
1987	The company registered its first patent, Patent 4637730, “Optical and Electronically Compared Absorptiometer.”
1995	The company developed Optical Interface Couplers (OICs) that had to be inserted into low-volume cross-flow cells and connected to analyzers via fiber optic cables.
2003	The company launched the PT-100 Photometric Transceiver as a smaller, more cost-effective alternative to the Absorbance Photo-X line.
2015	Sensata Technologies Holding N.V. acquired Custom Sensors & Technologies, Inc.'s sensing portfolio for $1.0 billion. The acquisition includes the Kavlico, BEI, Crydom, and Newall product lines and brands and sales, engineering, and manufacturing sites in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, China, and Mexico.
2018	The company launched PX2+ housed in a waterproof NEMA4X enclosure with a 3.2″ capacitive touch LCD. That allowed users to view data and calibrate directly on the unit.