Bacharach

Bacharach Inc. is one of the oldest US testing equipment companies, beginning operations in 1909 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Hermann Bacharach and started its operations as a family run business. Their initial focus was on instruments measuring air flow, sensing gasses and providing combustion analysis. The company grew greatly over the years but gas sensing instruments are still core to Bacharach’s business.

The company history and its development is a fascinating story of remarkable entrepreneurship emblematic of US businesses. You can read more about their story - Bacharach: Pioneers in Combustion Analysis.

Today, Bacharach is a leader in the design and manufacture of advanced test equipment to measure and record combustion and environmental gases, temperature, relative humidity, air velocity, gas monitors and other air quality and safety parameters. Bacharach also has a broad line of refrigerant leak detectors and monitors for residential, industrial and automotive applications. The company has a strong R&D program and numerous patents, and was granted the first patent for a gas indicator in 1920.

Today, Bacharach offers numerous combustion analyzers for residential, commercial and industrial applications. Their famous lines include Fyrite InTech, Insight Plus, PCA 400 and ECA450 series with smart sensors that are field replaceable. This technology offers many benefits to a technician using combustion analyzers including much lower cost of maintenance on the combustion analyzer and no downtime - as one can preorder sensors without sending the instrument in for costly and lengthy calibration. Their combustible gas detectors from the Leakator series are extremely precise, and the CO analyzers in the Monoxor Plus line are the most popular precision instruments on the market. The ultrasonic leak detectors from the Tru Pointe series offer extra sensitivity for tracing hard to find gas leaks.