Industrial Scientific announced today that it was named the Advanced Manufacturing Company of the Year in the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s Tech 50 Awards. The annual awards program recognizes southwestern Pennsylvania’s most successful, innovative and thought-leading companies and executives.

According to the Council, the finalists for Advanced Manufacturing Company of the Year employ leading-edge technologies throughout their manufacturing processes to accelerate productivity and bring valuable new solutions to their respective marketplaces.

Justin McElhattan, the company’s president and CEO, accepted the award on behalf of the company, recognizing the work of Industrial Scientific’s approximately 1,000 employees worldwide.

“This award is in recognition of our employees’ dedication to delivering innovative products and services that improve worker safety and ultimately bring us closer to realizing our vision of ending death on the job in this century,” said McElhattan. “Thank you to the technology community for making Pittsburgh such a great place in which to conduct this work.”

To learn more about Industrial Scientific, visit www.indsci.com.

About Industrial Scientific Corporation

Industrial Scientific Corporation is the world’s leading provider of Gas Detection as a Service. With approximately 1,000 people working in 22 countries, Industrial Scientific is dedicated to eliminating death in the workplace by the end of this century. Achieving this goal requires dedication to delivering highest quality and best customer service in all transactions. Industrial Scientific also focuses on providing analysis of data from equipment use and maintenance to identify problems before they happen. Industrial Scientific has operations based in Pittsburgh (USA), Arras (France), Dortmund (Germany) and Shanghai (China). The company provides technical services to customers from local service centers around the world, and has additional offices in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chinese Taipei, Czech Republic, India, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, Panama, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. Industrial Scientific is the parent company to Oldham (www.oldhamgas.com) and Predictive Solutions Corporation (www.predictivesolutions.com). For more information, visit www.indsci.com.