that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . august 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message land instruments international industry manufacturer founded sheffield united kingdom 1947 1947 founder tom land headquarters dronfield derbyshire united kingdom area served worldwide key people justin smith products infrared thermometer thermal imagers infrared linescanners combustion efficiency monitors environmental emissions analysers parent ametek inc. website landinst.com ametek land are specialists in the design and manufacture of monitors and analysers for industrial infrared non contact temperature measurement combustion efficiency and environmental pollutant emissions with headquarters in the united kingdom and offices and distributors worldwide . 1 contents 1 early history 2 current day 3 awards & recognition 4 infrared temperature measurement 5 combustion & environmental monitoring 6 product range 6.1 temperature measurement products 6.2 combustion monitoring products 6.3 industries 7 references 8 external links early history edit 2 the origins of the company go back to approximately 1845 in sheffield the cutlery capital of england where 100 years working within the electroplate trade began . in c. 1860 harriss & land were manufacturers of britannia metal and forks and spoons the land in this case being henry land who died in c. 1895 and is buried in the sheffield general cemetery . tom land took over the business from his father which had by then become henry land & co dealing with silver plate & gilding . in 1890 under the name of land & oxley the company became very successful as a manufacturer of epbm spoons & forks & table knives . by 1906 the company had become t. land & son after frank land joined his father in the business which moved to a new factory in queens road sheffield in 1908 . from 1914 18 the factory was turned over to war work . in 1946 tom land joined the firm and developed a new department within it which focused on industrial instruments . as both areas of the business continued to perform well it was decided to split them and land pyrometers ltd. was born . 1947 is given as the founding date for when tom transformed the company into a hi tech business developing products for industrial temperature measurement . in 1963 land pyrometers sold their queens road factory in sheffield and moved to a new purpose built factory in dronfield . current day edit in june 2006 land instruments became part of the process & analytical instruments division of ametek inc. a global supplier of high end analytical instrumentation with headquarters in paoli pennsylvania usa . ametek has approximately 11 000 employees with over 80 manufacturing sites worldwide . 3 land has provided a number of innovative solutions to temperature measurement for a variety of industries including flu screening at airports during the recent avian flu 4 and swine flu 5 epidemics . land also developed one of the first portable thermal imagers which was successfully used for real time analysis of the jet engines on the thrust ssc land speed record breaking car . 6 awards & recognition edit in october 2013 land instruments international was selected as the runner up for the british engineering excellence awards beeas 2013 under the design team of the year category for the design of the spot thermometer . 7 8 the latest product which land launched is the spot thermometer . 9 it is a stand alone infrared pyrometer design with advanced integrated processing capabilities . combining ethernet modbus tcp video analog and alarm outputs . infrared temperature measurement edit its products are used in applications as diverse as steel glass electronics mineral processing power generation utility and aircraft gas turbines and a range of other industries . infrared temperature measurement product range includes fixed on line thermometers and systems for process control and product quality portable infrared thermometers for spot measurements process thermal imagers for asset management and process control high resolution infrared scanners for fast moving materials calibration furnaces combustion & environmental monitoring edit combustion & environmental section specializes in the design manufacture and marketing of combustion and environmental monitoring instrumentation . pioneered by an initial interest in the efficiency of coal fired combustion processes serious development of co monitors soon established land instruments international in this field . with the recent increase in environmental concerns the company has continued to develop and produce a range of high quality environmental gas analysers for monitoring and complying with worldwide legislation . most land products for environmental emissions applications carry both european certifications in the form of mcerts and t v approval . their products are designed to meet the requirements of the latest european standards such as en 12567 parts 1 2 and 3 plus qal 1 compliance . combustion and environmental monitoring product range includes combustion efficiency monitors for industrial boiler efficiency and control stack gas emissions analyzers to meet environmental regulations in the uk dust and particulate monitors to meet compliance and non compliance environmental applications portable gas analyzers spot checks of efficiency and pollutant emissions coal fire detection systems for grinding mills silos stockyards and conveyors gas turbine blade temperature monitors for preventative maintenance applications customer support and sales are handled by land offices throughout the world . land distributors and representatives offer sales and support advice in most countries of the world . product range edit a land infrared thermal imaging camera a land cyclops hand held camera temperature measurement products edit fixed spot thermometers process imaging portable thermometers calibration sources combustion monitoring products edit combustion efficiency monitors portable gas analyzers stack gas emissions dust emissions monitors coal fire detection turbine blade monitoring systems industries edit glass iron and steel metals and metal processing mineral processing other industries references edit http www.landinst.com infrared content about land lands so far tom land http www.allbusiness.com company activities management sales selling sales figures 5411585 1.html http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi magazine 3263343 . stm http www.tempsensornews.com thermal imaging infrared camera against swine flu http www.thrustssc.com thrustssc press pack landir.html http www.beeas.co.uk shortlist http www.beeas.co.uk winners beeas 2013 winners.pdf http www.spotthermometer.com external links edit international land website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title land instruments 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