Industrial Scientific Corp., a global leader in gas detection technology, is looking for a new home in the Parkway West corridor and plans to hire 70 additional employees in the next three years.
“We’re at the point where we don’t have a choice,” says Josh McElhattan, director of marketing and business development. “We’re going to be leasing and increasing our space by one-third (in the short term) while we look for land where we can build a consolidated facility.”
With sales growing on average between 15 and 20 percent the last five years, the company hopes to bring the operation together in a 200,000 square foot, state-of-the-art, architecturally significant space. About 225 employees currently work at the Oakdale headquarters; worldwide the company employs 865. New hires will include sales, software development, IT, technical and engineering work and finance.
Industrial Scientific sells gas monitoring technology that strives to protect human life in the most demanding work environments. Its gas detectors and monitors are used in a variety of applications, including mining, oil exploration, fire services, rescue and steel production.
“As a company, it’s our bedrock principle we don’t let anything out of our factory unless everyone would bet their life on it,” says McElhattan. “Our mission statement is preserving human life on above and below the earth.”
Writer:
Debra Smit
Source: Josh McElhattan, Industrial Scientific
Image Courtesy of Industrial Scientific Corp.