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History

AMETEK Land is the world’s leading manufacturer of monitors and analysers for industrial infrared non-contact temperature measurement, combustion efficiency and environmental pollutant emissions.




Founded in the UK in 1947, Land Instruments International Limited developed a reputation for producing innovative, resilient measurement technologies designed to operate in the most challenging conditions. Acquired by the Process & Analytical Instruments Division of AMETEK, Inc in 2006, today AMETEK Land is the premium supplier of product application solutions to world industries including steelmaking, glass making, minerals processing, hydrocarbon processing and thermal power generation.

In 2003, it developed the Human Body Temperature Measurement System (HBTMS) as a response to the SARS epidemic of that year. This was followed by the original VIRALERT system in 2009, which has been refreshed and refined through development over a decade to create the VIRALERT 3 in 2020.

AMETEK Land continues to develop award-winning technologies that push the limits demanded by the ever-increasing technical requirements of global industry and meeting the challenges of a wide range of applications, delivering process safety, process control and product quality our customers depend on.