Boston, San Francisco and Herzliya, Israel 6/6/18—Process Sensing Technologies (PST) has agreed to acquire LDetek for an undisclosed amount. LDetek manufacturers online GCs and analyzers that use a plasma-emission detector technology to obtain highly sensitive measurements. End-markets served include specialty/high-purity gas, semiconductors, laboratories and environmental monitoring. “LDetek’s focus on gas chromatography and analysis is extremely complementary to the other businesses in PST’s portfolio, and will enable PST to offer a complete solution in a number of key applications,” said PST CEO Adam Markin. PST is owned by Battery Ventures, whose other process instruments businesses include Analytical Industries, Michell Instruments and Rotronic.

PST provides precision measurement instruments and analyzers for industrial process control, including precision hygrometers, humidity probes, dew-point analyzers and dew-point transmitters for trace moisture measurements in gases and process liquids. According to LDetek, the company’s plasma-emission detector technology is a quartz cell that is submitted to a high-intensity and frequency electromagnetic field, resulting in electroluminescence, which is used as an emission technique to quantify analytes. Once the carrier gas (argon or helium) is ionized, an optical system detects the emitted spectral lines.