IONICON celebrates historic milestone: 300 PTR-MS instruments sold.
Continuous success with innovative solutions for real-time trace VOC analysis since 1998.
IONICON Analytik, the Austrian based leading manufacturer of real-time trace VOC analyzers, based on the unique PTR-MS technology, has sold its 300th instrument. The analyzer, a PTR-TOF 1000 system, was shipped abroad in September 2016 and will be used for analyzing chemical pollutants in industrial areas.
The whole IONICON team with currently more than 30 employees celebrates this achievement.
Taking a look back
Everything started in 1998 where a small group of scientists had a visionary idea and decided to commercialize a technology that was unheard of before: PTR-MS. It allowed to analyze tiny concentrations of VOCs in real-time, without sample preparation. Time-consuming and thus expensive traditional chemical analysis methods became obsolete for many of IONICON’s PTR-MS users since then.
Back in 1998 the company started its business with one part-time employee and the sale of