1935

1935 - GOW-MAC® Instrument Co. (U.S.A.) was formed by Mr. William Gow and Mr. James McFadden to exploit an automotive engine analyzer developed by Mr. Gow.

1942

GOW-MAC® was incorporated in New Jersey

1946

Gow left the company and McFadden continued manufacturing instruments and thermal conductivity cells (TCD).

1968

McFadden retired, selling his shares to the Company and making Alexander Lawson the major shareholder.

1969

The Company added to its instrument family by introducing its own line of gas chromatographs into the world marketplace. The Model 69-100 became the first in a long line of low cost, easy to use, quality GCs- a tradition that continues to this day.

1974

The need for TCDs increased because of the development of gas chromatography (GC). GOW-MAC® became, and still remains, the major supplier of TCDs and detector elements (filaments) to the major manufacturers of GCs throughout the world.

1977

A patent was issued to the company for the Christiansen Effect Detector. A collaboration invented this detector that measured refractive index to determine the composition of a liquid.

1979

GOW-MAC® Instrument Co. relocated its headquarters and production facility from Madison, NJ to Bridgewater, NJ.

1989

The introduction of our patented discharge ionization detector (DID). This detector revolutionized the gas industry in that it is a universal, non-radioactive detector capable of performing trace gas impurity analyses in the part-per-billion range.

1990

Robert Mathieu

Alexander Lawson retired after 30 years of service with the Company and sold his shares making Jeffrey Lawson and Robert Mathieu owners of the Company.

1993

Acquisition of Middlesex Service Center from Linde Gases. This allowed GOW-MAC® to provide gas filling equipment and package labs in conjunction with the instruments.

1994

GOW-MAC® Instrument Co. (USA) relocates its world headquarters from New Jersey to a new 27,200 sq. ft. facility in the Lehigh Valley Industrial Park, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

1997

GOW-MAC® introduced its first fully digital GC. The Series 816 GC combines the industry`s leading digital GC platform with GOW-MAC®`s advanced detector technology.

1999

GOW-MAC opened an office in Taipei, Taiwan. Engineers are giving technical and sales support to our agents and customers in the Far East.

2007

Robert Mathieu retired after 40 years of service with the Company and sold his shares making Jeffrey Lawson majority owner and Peter Mathieu minority owner of the company.

2012

GOW-MAC® opened an office in Beijing, China. Sales and technical staff installs and supports our instruments throughout China

2019

GOW-MAC® introduced the Series 2400 Total Hydrocarbon Analyzer and Series 5900 DID Gas Chromatograph which replaced long standing instruments and made them fully digital.

2020

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