Company Background

Leco Instruments originally started business in 1936 and were the first company to produce a Rapid Carbon Analyser for the steel industry using the combustion technique. Business grew very quickly as most steel companies worldwide purchased the Leco Carbon Analyser that immediately transformed the time that it took them to do a carbon analysis down to a matter of minutes. The name Leco has now become synonymous with this type of analysis with operatives referring to “doing a Leco” on the sample.

Built on the success of the rapid Carbon Analyser, Leco went on to build more rapid analysers for the analysis of Sulphur, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Hydrogen, all elements critical to the production of high grade steel.

The technology utilised in these analysers was then put to use analysing other products such coal, coke, petroleum etc therefore dramatically expanding the customer base of the company.
Instrumentation and Equipment Supplied by Leco

Leco Instruments is now one of the leading companies in the world supplying analytical and laboratory instrumentation to most types of industries. Products include:

· Metallographic

· Hardness Testing

· Image Analysis

· Elemental Analysis

· Optical Emission Spectrometers (OES)

· Thermogravimetric Analysis Equipment (TGA)

· Surface Depth Coating/Treated Analysers

· Mass Spectrometers

Leco of course also supply the service along with consumables to support this full range of products. In addition Leco also provide many OEM products that compliment our range of products allowing customers a “one stop shop”.
Products for the Organics Based Industries

In addition to these products, Leco has successfully developed and sells to the market, a wide range of analysers and instrumentation for the Organics based industries, our most popular instrument being the FP range of instrument for analysing Protein in food and agricultural products. More lately we have introduced a full range of “Time of Flight” Mass Spectrometers aimed at the organic chemistry market which includes pharmaceutical, pesticides, food, flavours, fragrances etc. The important feature of these instruments being very rapid analysis and data acquisition.
The Leco Worldwide Network

Leco has subsidiary companies along with agents and distributors worldwide allowing access to our products and services from any country or industry all of which provide vital feedback to Leco providing them with information for product development and future markets.