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connectors has developed extraordinarily since ODU was founded in 1942. The company quickly established itself as a globally active connector specialist and now has over 2,500 employees – 1,400 of them at the main site in Mühldorf am Inn. Other production sites are located in the US, Romania, Mexico and China. The company ethos and


the innovative strength of the founder are the basis of the still privately managed family company. The legacy of the company founder also lives on in the three letters, ODU, as the abbreviation of Otto Dunkel’s name.


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Welcome to the August issue of Instrumentation Monthly. The venue is booked and


the nominations are in so now is your opportunity to make your voice heard as the voting opens for the Instrumentation Excellence Awards. Taking place on 27 October 2022 at the Grand Connaught Rooms, London, the Awards celebrate the very best products and companies in the test, measurement, control and sensor markets. Head over to www.instrumentationawards.co.uk to make your nomination. Alternatively, turn to the supplement that accompanies this issue to find out more about the event of the year!


Victoria White, Editor


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hat began in 1936 with Otto Dunkel’s idea to manufacture interference-free wire spring


The company sees itself as a specialist for


high-end connectors and high-quality system solutions. In the spirit of Otto Dunkel, the company’s experts are especially in demand for innovations for complex technical issues. Not least due to its own testing and research


laboratories, certified production processes and the high vertical range of manufacture, ODU is a reliable partner for its customers in all matters with the highest quality and safety standards. The pioneering spirit of ODU means that it is always forging forward with solutions ready for future challenges. For example, the system solutions for connectors in the area of fibre optic technologies enable the interference- free transmission of large amounts of data both over longer distances and in harsh environments, with high temperature fluctuations or in magnetic environments. In its 80th year, the company


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continues to grow and is investing almost €60m in its headquarters.


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With the new five-storey building for the turning shop, including laboratories and offices, ODU is building upwards for the first time. An additional assembly hall will also be built in the near future. ODU celebrated its 80th company anniversary


with its employees at a large company party on 22 July 2022. The company is celebrating a tradition of ‘working hard together’. After all, the employees, with their many years of know-how, are the most important foundation for continuing the 80-year success story. This is reflected in many community activities, a family atmosphere, comprehensive career and further training opportunities.


www.odu-connectors.com WatloW Celebrates 100 years


100-year anniversary milestone. The company, which was founded in 1922 in Missouri, is now a global electric heating specialist with over 1,000 patents and 4,200 employees working across locations in North America, Asia and Europe. Watlow began manufacturing


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electric heating elements for the shoe industry, before widening its product offering in the 1930s to introduce electric immersion heaters to replace steam pipes and fire-hazardous gas. Then, in the 1980s, Watlow expanded its global reach with the opening of sales offices in Italy, France, the UK and Taiwan. Since its founding in 1922, the company has developed into a highly regarded industry


atlow, which specialises in electric components for complete thermal systems, has reached its


heating technology manufacturer, holding more than 1,000 patents and employing over 4,000 people working in nine manufacturing facilities and five technology centres across three continents. Additionally, Watlow gains sales coverage in 178 countries. The 2010s became the most


productive and significant period of the company’s journey so far. Within just eight years, Watlow introduced ten new products including the F4T process


controller with touch-screen technology, OPTIMAX heat exchanger and the range of FLUENT in-line heaters. Now, the company serves any application that may use industrial process heating such as semiconductor processing, energy generation and medical and food service equipment.


www.watlow.com Continuous Water Quality monitoring solutions in aCtion


Government’s Environment Audit Committee (EAC) during its investigation into river water quality. Amidst growing concern with bathing water


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quality and the impact of effluent discharge and CSOs, the committee was keen to learn whether water resources could be protected by continuous monitoring. As a proven specialist in this area Meteor Communications has been installing and operating remote water quality monitoring systems all over the UK for customers such as water utilities and the environmental regulators for many years. Meteor therefore provided the EAC with a live


isitors to WWEM 2022 can experience a demonstration of continuous water quality monitoring that was provided to the UK


demonstration – logging into remote water quality monitors (ESNET - Environmental Sensor NETwork) systems to view current and historical water quality trends and incidents. WWEM visitors to the Meteor stand (Q11)


will be able to see an ESNET system and also select a river in order to view its water quality status. With independent power and communications, ESNET systems are quick and easy to install, and Meteor’s experts will be on hand to explain how ESNET Systems can be either purchased or provided as part of the company’s ‘Water Quality As a Service’ package.


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