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Mine Safety Appliances Company (MSA, Pittsburgh, PA, 412-967-3000)(www.msanet.com)(AMEX:MSA) was founded in 1914 to provide basic safety equipment for the mining industry and other industries of that era. Since its inception, MSA has adhered to its corporate mission: to be a leading innovator and provider of high-quality safety products, instruments, and services that protect the health and safety of individuals and the environment.
MSA's products include respirators, respirator cartridges, gas masks, riot control products, fire helmets and shields, self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA), thermal imaging cameras, hard hats, head protection equipment, fall protection products, lanyards, lifelines, confined space equipment, hearing protection equipment, eye and face protection products, monitors, gas detection equipment, and mining products.
A vital element in MSA's growth and evolution over the years is its Instrument Division (Pittsburgh, PA, 800-MSA-4678), which has been designing and manufacturing gas detection equipment for over 70 years, serving customers in more than 140 countries. MSA is purportedly the world's largest provider of gas detection equipment for personal and plant protection, designing and manufacturing sophisticated portable and permanent instruments that monitor workplace environments for toxic and combustible gases and other atmospheric hazards. In addition, MSA's Instrument Division designs and manufactures thermal imaging cameras (TICs), heads-up-display devices, communication devices, and specialty batteries.
MSA is committed to achieving a high level of manufacturing control and quality assurance. Toward this end, nearly all components of the company's products are formulated, machined, tolled, or molded in-house from raw materials. For example, leverages integrated manufacturing capability for the circuit boards contained in their monitoring instruments.
MSA's Instrument Division designs and manufactures a wide range of portable and permanently-installed gas detection systems. Its portable instrument product line includes single-gas and multi-gas toxic and combustible gas monitors, photoionization detectors (PIDs) for detecting volatile organic compounds (VOCs), sampling pumps for dust and particulate monitoring, and a computerized automatic calibration system. The division's permanent instrumentation includes industrial products (e.g., single- and multi-gas monitors, controllers, sensors and transmitters, and flame detectors), as well as HVAC products (including refrigerant monitors, parking garage monitoring systems, and indoor air quality detectors).
Moreover, MSA's Instrument Division designs and manufactures a variety of other products, including medical sensors and instrumentation, and their new SafeSite(tm) hazardous gas detection system for...
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