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History
The current AIM technology, customer base, sales
agents, and business experience is the product of over 30 years of experience of
designing, manufacturing, selling and supporting continuous emissions monitors (CEMs),
starting in May 1969 with Environmental Data Corporation (EDC), and including associations
with Thermo Electron Corp, Syconex Corp, Teledyne Analytical, and now AIM.
While at EDC, founded in 1969 and acquired in
1979 by Thermo Electron Corp, we invented the first in-situ across-stack CEMs for gas
analysis. Over 2500 of these first generation EPA compliant analyzers were sold in the
1970's (90 % in the U.S.), with Phillips (the Netherlands) as our European agent, and
Honeywell as our Asian agent.
AIM was founded in Aug 1988 to participate in the emerging and rapidly growing
international market for continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS). AIM produced the
first truly EPA compliant across-stack CEM, incorporating in-situ's advantages of lower
maintenance and lower cost, but also allowing direct calibration.
Working with the US EPA, we developed a unique
calibration methodology, in compliance with 40 CFR Part 60, App B and App F, as well as
NESCAUM requirements, flowing cylinder gas through the system in place on the gas stream.
Today, close to 60% of our sales are for US or International EPA compliance applications.
AIM has focused on performance and customer satisfaction. Our staff is primarily
technically based, with a strong engineering and customer support background, continuously
focusing on maximizing reliability, simplicity, and accuracy.
We do not manufacture, but rather design,
develop, assemble, test, sell, start-up and support. Every system is run through a full
week of burn-in and QA/QC after production, and before release for shipping. Historical
advances include expanding our geographic territory [now 35 countries], as well as
expanding our productline. AIM advances include:
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Description |
1992 |
Applied the patented in-situ multigas analyzer design to an
extractive analyzer system, both for transportable and permanent monitoring requirements.
One OEM account immediately purchased 20 of these systems
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1994 |
AIM entered into an agreement with the Reuter-Stokes division
of GE which has resulted in a non-exclusive worldwide license to the AIM patents for the
utility/power generation industry, with a focus on gas turbines emissions monitoring.
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1995 |
AIM introduced our Model 5000 Dispersive UV analyzer.
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1996 |
AIM introduced our PC controller for all of our analyzers
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1996 |
AIM was selected by the Los Angeles area South Coast Air
Quality Management District [SCAQMD] for the development of the next generation of Remote
Vehicle Exhaust Analyzers.
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1997 |
AIM entered into an Agreement with Oldham France for the
supply of our E-6000 series analyzers into Europe, with Oldham modifying the product to
insure full compliance with the European standards. At the same time AIM became a
non-exclusive worldwide agent for the Oldham line of gas detectors.
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1997 |
AIM expanded our PC control to not only control our analyzers
but also to simultaneously control an on-stack opacity and oxygen analyzers [reducing the
system cost by eliminating separate controllers, and simplifying set-up and operation.]
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1997 |
AIM received an order from the US Dept of Agriculture for the
supply of 3 very high precision ppm level CO2 and ppb level N2O
greenhouse gas analyzers for Global Warming studies.
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1998 |
Based upon the USDA development AIM introduced our single gas
Model 7010 NDIR analyzers and our single gas 5010 single gas NDUV analyzers. Initial
measurements were for low level NH3 or Cl2.
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1998 |
Oak Crest Institute of Science spun off from AIM. OCIS is a
not-for-profit Research and Development company focusing on several environmental research
and development issues. AIM has subcontracted certain development work to them
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1999 |
AIM introduced the first in-situ non-sampling analyzer
capable of measuring SO2, SO3 and H2SO4
vapors.
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1999 |
The SCAQMD renewed their contract and ordered a second unit
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1999 |
AIM introduced our Model 8647A ReVEAL commercial product for
measuring CO, CO2, THC, NO and visibility from vehicles as they drive down the road, and
delivered a unit to Mexico funded by the World Bank.
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