Brooks Instrument is celebrating its 75th year providing high-precision fluid measurement and control instrumentation, that all began with the vision of one industrial chemist.
“From the beginning, the company’s fundamental DNA is based on a relentless commitment to solve challenges and deliver better results, helping customers transform how they measure and control their essential processes,” says Brooks Instrument general manager Eric Pipal.
A familiar name in advanced flow, pressure and vapour delivery solutions, the company serves customers across many industries, including semiconductor manufacturing, pharmaceutical, biopharmaceuticals, fiber optics, thin film manufacturing, solar cells, LED, alternative energy, oil and gas, chemical and petrochemical.
To help commemorate the milestone, the company developed a special 75th anniversary webpage at https://experience.brooksinstrument.com/75-years.
Originating in 1946 as The Brooks Rotameter Company, the business was started by industrial chemist Stephen Brooks in a small suburb near Philadelphia, Pa. Brooks commercialized a new design approach for industrial rotameters (used to measure flow) that featured an innovative side-plate, dowel-pin construction. He found this was a more durable, reliable and accurate meter design — and it provided a strong foundation for the company’s growth in the industrial boom of the post-WWII years.
A key reason Brooks Instrument has been able to satisfy the evolving needs of its customers for 75 years is the talented group of people who have been part of the company, Pipal says.
“We’re fortunate in our long history to employ some fantastic people who are very good at listening to customers, understanding their fluid measurement and control needs and then applying their expertise in customer applications,” he says.
That passion for customer solutions has grown into a unique culture at Brooks Instrument, where many employees have worked at the company literally for decades. This depth of knowledge and experience has led to deep insights into the challenges that customers face.
“Our development engineering team, applications engineers and field service engineers all keep Brooks Instrument on the cutting edge and provide the highest level of technical support,” reiterates Steve Kannengieszer, global marketing director, who has over 30 years at the company.
In more recent years, the company has expanded its portfolio to serve the extremely demanding requirements in global high-tech areas such as biopharmaceutical and semiconductor manufacturing.
Today, headquartered in Hatfield, Pa., the company has a diverse employee base, working in manufacturing, sales and service locations throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. Pipal says one reason Brooks Instrument is known as a leader is because the company provides fluid measurement and control instrumentation that gives its customers a sustainable competitive advantage.
“Better, more accurate and more reliable and repeatable results make the customer’s research more accurate or saves costly materials in their manufacturing process. That’s why they come to us — to help them take fluid measurement and control to new levels,” he says.
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