INFICON Buys GC Company
Photovac’s primary product offerings were portable FID and PID, which will be new product categories for INFICON. Photovac’s portable GCs add to INFICON’s GC portfolio, increasing its industrial- focused offerings.
Bad Ragaz, Switzerland and Syracuse, NY 11/15/11—INFICON has acquired the assets of Photovac, a developer and manufacturer of detection equipment for volatile organic compounds. Financial details were not disclosed. Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, Photovac’s products include portable and rack-mounted instruments for photoionization detection (PID), flame ionization detection (FID) and GC. The products will join INFICON’s product line for chemical detection and monitoring.

