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=HIAC Liquid Particle Counter=

Leon Carver was a pioneer in the rapidly developing Particle Counter industry during the 1960's. In 1962 he founded High Accuracy Products in Southern California. This "one man band" has grown and evolved into the industry standard brand HIAC that we are all familiar with today. The HIAC Liquid Particle Counter was originally developed for aerospace hydraulics applications where a laser particle counter is used to monitor the size and quantity of particles present in the hydraulic liquid. At the same time ROYCO was developing air particle counters for the expanding semiconductor clean room industry.

Pacific Scientific purchased HIAC in the 1970's and ROYCO in 1980 and by joining the two technologies came to dominate the particle counting market at the time. Production was moved to ROYCO's Menlo Park Facility as worldwide sales started to take off. Later in 1986 HIAC/ROYCO was further consolidated into the Pacific Scientific Gardner/Neotec Division located in Silver Springs Maryland. During 1996 Pacific Scientific merged with MET ONE and became Pacific Scientific Instruments (PSI) and continued to succeed in the air and liquid particle counter markets with leading edge advances in technology.

In 1998 PSI was acquired by Danaher. Later in 2004 the MET ONE and HIAC brands formed part of the new "ultra-pure" structure within Hach and Hach-Lange which focused on high end technological solutions for the Power, Pharmaceutical, Electronic and Beverage markets.

Since 2009 the HIAC range of Liquid Particle Counters are available via Hach in the US and Hach Lange. Intensive research and development continues with a completely updated version of the HIAC 9703+ Liquid Particle Counter for pharmaceutical applications in 2010.

For over 50 years, the HIAC Particle Counter has been the "industry standard" liquid particle counter in both pharmaceutical and liquid contamination laboratories. Generations of particle counting specialists have been trained on these instruments and gone on to fulfill their professional ambitions using the same products in their daily work.

=Applications=
 * Liquid Particle Counting Applications
 * Life Science Particle Counters
 * Oil Analysis
 * Electronics
 * Aerospace and Defense

=External links=
 * www.particle.com