Scintrex Limited

Scintrex Limited of Concord, Ontario, Canada, is a developer and manufacturer of scientific instruments for earth science and environmental markets. Our instruments allow for precise measurements of geophysical data for exploration and monitoring in petroleum, mineral, ground water and academic applications . In addition, Scintrex provides airborne and ground based geophysical exploration services for the mining and petroleum industries.


The origins of Scintrex Limited date back to the year 1946 when the company, then known as Sharpe Instruments Ltd., first manufactureda number of fine mechanical and opto-mechanical measuring devices. By the mid-1950's, the product line had expanded to include electronic and electromechanical devices, primarily for use in mineral exploration as well as a quartz-element gravimeter.


Facilities:
Scintrex' head office and plant is located in Concord, (Toronto), Ontario, . All of Scintrex' manufacturing and R&D facilities, as well as the central corporate management, are at this location. A total of approximately 45 employees occupy this plant.


Scintrex has an International Sales and Marketing Organization with agents and representative in over 70 countries


Principal Products:
Scintrex' primary activity is the development, manufacture, and sale of geohphysical instrumentation. Those instruments are all designedto sense and measure quantities such as: force fields (magnetic, gravitational, electrical), physical properties, or trace amounts of elements or gases in solid, liquid or gaseous media.


Scintrex' sensing and measuring instruments are sold into the following markets: Earth Science (Geophysics); military and security; analytical laboratories; environmental.


Scintrex' Earth Science Instrumentation enjoys a worldwide reputation as the leading designer and manufacturer of geophysical equipment. The geophysical instrumentation offered by Scintrex covers a wide variety of applications which include; Mineral Exploration, Oil & Gas Exploration, Water Exploration, Archaeology, Environmental Site Characterization and Engineering.

Products such as the CG-5 Gravimeter, the CS3 Magnetometer, the NAVMAG High Resolution Magnetometer and the IPR-12 Induced Polarization Receiver are industry standards in their fields.

Specializing in providing customized geophysical solutions to unique user requirements has kept the Scintrex name at the forefront of Geophysics for 40 years