corporation nyse dhr industry manufacturing founded 1947 headquarters loveland colorado area served worldwide key people kevin klau president mike strycker cfo clifford hach co founder kathryn hach darrow co founder products instrumentation website hach.com hach company manufactures and distributes analytical instruments and reagents used to test the quality of water and other liquid solutions . manufactured and distributed worldwide hach systems are designed to simplify analysis by offering on line instrumentation portable laboratory equipment prepared reagents easy to follow methods and technical support . 1 hach is a wholly owned subsidiary of danaher corporation dhr a fortune 500 corporation . 2 hach s global headquarters in loveland colorado houses research and development laboratories instrument manufacturing operations and the hach technical training center . hach has an additional facility in ames iowa for manufacturing and packaging hach s chemical reagents and test kits . 3 contents 1 history 1.1 1947 1968 founding 1.2 1970 1975 expanding boundaries 1.3 1977 1995 restructuring 1.4 1998 present 2 family brands 3 references 4 external links history edit 1947 1968 founding edit external video kitty hach darrow the water on this planet is all that we have . it needs to be cared for . 15 04 chemical heritage foundation kitty hach darrow receiving the 2003 pittcon heritage award from arnold thackray head of the chemical heritage foundation hach company was founded in 1947 in ames iowa by clifford and kathryn hach . 4 clifford hach was a chemist and an inventor . the couple experienced their first business success through the development of a simplified titration method for measuring hardness in drinking water . as the product line expanded to include more parameters and instruments the company continued to bring analytical chemistry out of the laboratory and put it into the workplace and in the hands of the general public . 4 initially kathryn hach began marketing to municipal drinking water plants through direct mail . the company was originally a partnership . in 1968 it was reincorporated in delaware as hach chemical co. with clifford hach president and treasurer and kathryn hach as vice president . 5 later that year hach went public raising 1.7 million with the sale of a small minority of the shares . most of the money was used to build and equip a new chemical manufacturing plant in ames . 5 1970 1975 expanding boundaries edit in 1970 hach was manufacturing and selling a line of instruments designed to determine specific water impurities . it was also manufacturing a manometric apparatus that measured the biochemical oxygen demand bod of sewage and industrial wastes in lakes rivers and streams . 5 hach was also manufacturing and selling more than 100 different portable water test kits for laboratory and field use . these kits were employed in water and sewage treatment water conditioning cooling towers wildlife conservation and boiler water . they usually included specially formulated chemical reagents in the form of small powder packets . test results were achieved by visual comparison of samples against color standards after adding the prescribed reagents . the directions were designed for people without technical backgrounds to conduct tests . the first of clifford hach s 10 item criteria for company products was can be used by anyone who can read . 6 1977 1995 restructuring edit the demand for testing products grew as legislation was introduced mandating water quality standards such as the clean water act of 1977 . hach also focused on converting complex analysis into simplified procedures that were reliable and verifiable . these standard methods were compiled into hach s water analysis handbook . in 1977 clifford hach took the position of chairman and chief executive officer and kathryn hach became president and chief operating officer the following year . in 1978 hach moved its instrument division and its corporate headquarters to loveland colorado . hach chemical co. became hach company in 1980 . 5 in 1985 clifford hach was chairman ; kathryn hach was vice chairman ; and stelios papadopoulos was president of the company which had grown to 580 employees . 6 analytical instruments continue to be manufactured in loveland colorado where hach also has its corporate headquarters research development and engineering operations technical training center and plastic component manufacturing operation . the chemical manufacturing operations a chemical research laboratory and the company warehouse and shipping operations are still in ames iowa . 3 1998 present edit in 1998 hach expanded its portable testing capabilities with the acquisition of environmental test systems inc. in elkhart indiana usa . ets develops manufactures and markets diagnostic test strips for both consumer and industrial applications . ets operations continue to be based in elkhart . 4 in 1999 hach became a wholly owned subsidiary of danaher corporation which includes over 30 companies working in the process environmental controls industries . 4 also in 1999 the company acquired the german manufacturer lange and established additional product development and manufacturing in d sseldorf . 4 lange founded by dr. bruno lange is the distribution and support center for hach s customers in europe and mediterranean africa . 4 danaher acquired lange hach and numerous other brands and a period of dramatic change occurred for each brand as lean production was introduced . after 9 11 hach began developing products for the emerging field of water distribution system security . in 2002 hach formed a separate research and development division hach homeland security technologies . 7 hach hst s scientists and engineers set about developing a water distribution security system designed to detect and alarm operators to contaminants and accidents in real time . 7 the result of their efforts was the first early warning system for drinking water designated and certified by the department of homeland security . 7 in 2007 hach created tntplus vials that contain premeasured reagent and allow sample reaction and reading in a closed container . the next year iso 21501 compliant particle counters were added . in 2009 hach purchased the information management company ops systems 8 and the assets of watereye corporation . 9 in 2014 hach purchased the irish based water analysis company biotector ltd. 10 biotector make proprietary total organic carbon toc measurement systems . family brands edit anatel hach lange environmental test strips evita gli hiac homeland security technologies hydrolab iq scientific instruments lachat instruments leica microsystems marsh mcbirney met one ops systems orbisphere ott hydrometry polymetron radiometer analytical sea bird electronics sigma wet labs references edit corporate facts cnnmoney.com fortune 500 2009 a b corporate about us a b c d e f corporate history a b c d answers.com company history a b fundinguniverse.com company histories a b c about homeland security technologies info ops systems watereye corporation news section 2009 info ccan ireland external links edit www.hach.com v t e danaher people steven m. rales subsidiaries beckman coulter esko fluke corporation gems sensors & controls gilbarco veeder root hach company jacobs vehicle systems keithley instruments leica microsystems matco tools molecular devices radiometer tektronix retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hach company & oldid 731159296 categories companies established in 1947manufacturing companies based in colorado1947 establishments in iowa navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 23 july 2016 at 11 49 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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