Tramex Meters

Name

Tramex Meters

Legal name

Tramex Limited

Website

https://tramexmeters.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1974

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Tramex Meters designs and manufactures non-destructive moisture meters, RH probes, scanners, dataloggers, and cloud-based environmental monitoring systems for water damage restoration, flooring, concrete testing, roofing, marine, and building inspection professionals worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Wicklow

HQ country

Ireland

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Hardware Sales: Sale of moisture meters, scanners, RH probes, and datalogging systems. Products include analog and digital moisture detectors, pin and pinless meters, concrete moisture encounters, roof and wall scanners. Revenue is generated through one-time product purchases via e-commerce website.
2. Calibration and Repair Services: Product calibration and repair services offered through their service department. Calibration ensures meter accuracy per industry standards. Repair services for damaged or malfunctioning equipment.
3. Accessories and Consumables: Sale of accessories including calibration tools, pin probes, hole liners, cases, extension handles, spare pins, and sealant tape for RH hood testing.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Tramex designs, manufactures, and sells non-destructive moisture meters, humidity probes, dataloggers, and remote environmental monitoring systems for professional use in building inspection, water damage restoration, flooring installation, concrete testing, roofing inspection, and marine surveying. The product line is built around patented low-frequency impedance technology originally invented in 1974 with Trinity College Dublin, and is complemented by a mobile application, cloud platform, calibration services, and industry-specific kits sold worldwide through the company's e-commerce site, distributors, and regional offices.

Product overview

Tramex Meters is an international company founded in 1974, specializing in the design and production of moisture meters, humidity sensors, and environmental monitoring systems. The product portfolio centers on non-destructive impedance-based moisture detection technology for professional use in construction, restoration, and inspection industries. Core hardware products include the ME5 and MEX5 Moisture Encounter series for building materials, the CME5 and CMEX5 Concrete Moisture Encounter meters with quantitative %MC readings, the DS2 Dec Scanner for flat roofs, the RWS Roof and Wall Scanner, and the SMM5 Skipper for marine applications. Supporting probes include the Hygro-i2 RH probes for ASTM F2170 compliance, Concrete Moisture Probe (Determinator), infrared thermometers, and insulated RH Hoods. The ecosystem is complemented by Feedback Dataloggers (DL-RHTA, DL-RHTX) with Bluetooth connectivity and the TREMS Remote Environmental Monitoring System for cloud-based continuous monitoring. Mobile functionality is provided through the Tramex Meters App for iOS/Android enabling moisture mapping and GeoTagged reporting. Products are sold individually or bundled into industry-specific kits covering water damage restoration, roofing inspection, building surveying, concrete moisture testing, and flooring inspection. The company operates from headquarters in Ireland with additional offices in the USA and Australia.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ME5 Moisture Encounter Non-destructive pinless moisture meter for measuring moisture content in wood, drywall, and other building materials. Features shallow-depth readings up to ⅜" (10mm) and deep-depth readings up to 1¼" (30mm).
• MEX5 Moisture Encounter Digital moisture and humidity meter for building and home inspection. Features drywall moisture content measurement and shallow-depth readings up to ⅜" (9mm).
• CME5 Concrete Moisture Encounter Non-destructive analog concrete moisture meter providing instant quantitative moisture content readings ¾" (20mm) into concrete floors and slabs. Also reads gypsum floor screed and provides comparative 0-100 scale readings.
• CMEX5 Concrete Moisture Encounter Digital multi moisture meter for concrete with CM equivalent anhydrite and concrete readings, ambient relative humidity sensor, and optional ports for RH sensors and pin probes. Features Bluetooth connectivity for app integration.
• DS2 Dec Scanner Mobile non-destructive flat roof moisture scanner for detecting elevated moisture levels and tracing leaks in built-up roofing systems. Measuring depth up to 6" (152mm).
• RWS Roof and Wall Scanner Pinless moisture scanner for walls and roofing systems including EIFS. Measuring depth up to 4" (100mm) with comparative scale 0-100.
• SMM5 Skipper 5 Moisture Meter Moisture meter specifically designed for boats, providing comparative readings in G.R.P. (Glass Reinforced Plastic) and wood marine materials.
• DL-RHTA Ambient Feedback Datalogger Ambient feedback datalogger logging up to 100,000 data point entries for relative humidity and temperature. Transmits wirelessly via Bluetooth BLE to mobile devices.
• DL-RHTX Ambient & Probe Feedback Datalogger Feedback datalogger with ambient and probe functionality for humidity, temperature, dew point and grains per pound measurements with Bluetooth connectivity.
• Hygro-i2 RH Probes Advanced reusable relative humidity probes for concrete humidity testing. Compatible with ASTM F2170 and BS 8201/8203/5325 standards for in-situ RH testing.
• RHIH Insulated RH Hood (Hygrohood) Insulated relative humidity hood for non-destructive surface RH testing of concrete and other floors and screeds. Used with CMEX5, CMEX2, or MRH3 meters along with Hygro-i2 RH probes.
• Water Damage Restoration Kits Bundled kits including WDTK (Tech Kit), WDIK (Inspector Kit), WDMK (Master Kit), and WDMK-X (Master Kit X) containing moisture meters, probes, and accessories for water damage restoration professionals.
• Roof Inspection Kits Kits including RIK (Roofing Inspector Kit) and RMK (Roofing Master Kit) with instruments for flat roof leak detection and surveying.
• Building Survey Inspection Kits Kits including BSITK, BSIZK, BSIK, and BSMK for moisture and humidity testing in building surveying applications.
• Concrete Moisture Test Kits Specialized kits for concrete moisture testing including CCTK, CCIK, IQCK, IQCPK, CDK, CDTK, and CDIK. Includes instruments for ASTM F2170 and ASTM F1869 testing compliance.
• Flooring Inspection Kits Kits including FTK, FINSK, FZK, FIK, FAK, FMK, and FMK-X for moisture testing during flooring installation and inspection.
• TREMS Remote Environmental Monitoring System Remote Environmental Monitoring System (TREMS-5, TREMS-10, TREMS-Xtra, TREMS-WME-MC) for continuous cloud-based environmental monitoring of humidity, temperature, and moisture conditions.
• Tramex Meters App Mobile application for iOS and Android enabling moisture mapping, datalogger monitoring, and GeoTagged reporting. Works with 5-series moisture meters via Bluetooth.
• Tramex Cloud Cloud platform for remote environmental monitoring, data storage, and analytics for TREMS systems and moisture mapping data.
• Calibration and Repair Services Product calibration and repair services ensuring meter accuracy per industry standards and repairing damaged or malfunctioning equipment, offered through the Tramex service department.

Quantifiable outcome

• Concrete floors considered dry enough for floor covering at 3.5-4.5% moisture content
• +2 more outcomes

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Wagner Meters: Wagner Meters focuses on wood and concrete moisture measurement with both pin and non-invasive meters, directly addressing the flooring and concrete inspection buyer that Tramex targets. Comparable technology and channel overlap.
• Delmhorst Instrument: Delmhorst is a long-standing US moisture meter specialist serving restoration, flooring, and wood-product professionals. Directly comparable product category (pin/pinless moisture meters, accessories) and end customers.
• Protimeter (Amphenol): Amphenol-owned Protimeter is the most direct head-to-head rival to Tramex in pin and pinless moisture meters for building inspection, flooring and restoration. It offers overlapping product lines (Surveymaster, MMS, MMS2) and competes on the same professional buyer spec sheets.
• General Tools & Instruments: General Tools offers moisture meters and multi-function inspection tools targeting inspectors, restoration, and HVAC/diagnostic buyers. Overlaps with Tramex on moisture measurement devices for non-destructive surface scanning.
• Lignomat: Lignomat manufactures pin and pinless moisture meters for wood, concrete, and building inspection, with comparable application coverage including the Ligno-Scanner and Moisture Meter lines serving the same professional restoration and inspector base.

Broad incumbents

• Testo SE: Testo is a much larger global measurement instrument company with broad HVAC, thermal, and humidity sensing portfolios that compete with Tramex in environmental and building inspection. Comparable hardware-plus-software instrument approach, broader scale.
• Bosch Power Tools (Measuring): Bosch's measuring tools division (including the GLM laser measures and moisture detectors acquired via the Sonin brand) competes with Tramex for both professional and prosumer moisture detection. Orders-of-magnitude larger R&D and distribution muscle.
• Teledyne FLIR: FLIR/Teledyne is a dominant thermal imaging and condition-monitoring instrumentation player whose moisture, thermal, and building diagnostics products overlap with Tramex's scanners and thermal dataloggers. Orders-of-magnitude larger scale and broader product surface.
• Nielsen-Kellerman (Kestrel): Nielsen-Kellerman's Kestrel line serves construction, restoration, and industrial buyers with environmental and weather measurement instruments. Comparable form factor and channel, but with much broader outdoor/industrial exposure.

Emerging players

• Onset Computer (HOBO): Onset's HOBO dataloggers and web-based environmental monitoring directly overlap with Tramex's Feedback Dataloggers and TREMS remote monitoring platform. Similar shared buyer base in energy auditing, IAQ, and building performance.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/tramexmeters

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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