Environmental Device Corporation

What Environmental Device Corporation does

Environmental Devices Corporation (EDC) is a privately held New Hampshire-based manufacturer of precision scientific instrumentation founded in 1990, specializing in real-time air quality and aerosol monitoring for occupational health, environmental compliance, and research applications. The company's product portfolio operates under two principal brands — HAZ-DUST and HAZ-SCANNER — and spans personal wearable monitors (HD-7204, DPM-7204, SM-7204), handheld survey tools (HD-1620, HD-1100, AA-3500), fixed-point and ambient monitors (AQ-10, EPAM-5000, DS-2.5), and configurable multi-sensor stations (HIM-6000, GB-2000, AS-2000). The core technical platform combines optical light-scattering photometry with simultaneous gravimetric filter sampling in a single wearable device, supported by flow-compensated pumps that maintain ±5% accuracy across varying filter loads, Predictive Logic Features for NIOSH 0600 and NIOSH 7500 compliance, and instrument-specific CS-105 Calibration Span References.

EDC's business model rests on four revenue streams: (1) one-time hardware sales at list or GSA-negotiated pricing with a 6% volume discount above 10 units and a maximum order ceiling of $250,000; (2) annual calibration and service performed at the Plaistow, NH facility, which generates recurring revenue from the installed base; (3) a trade-in program offering up to $600 in credit toward new HAZ-DUST units, which incentivizes upgrade cycles within existing accounts; and (4) custom engineering services for site-specific deployments including explosion-proof housings, wireless networks, and solar-powered installations. The company operates a hybrid GTM combining direct enterprise field sales (phone, email, virtual demonstrations), a U.S. federal government channel via GSA Advantage and GSA eBuy under contract #47QSWA22D001Z, and a 30+ year global distribution partnership with SKC Inc. covering North America (SKC West), Europe (SKC Europe), and Asia-Pacific (SKC Asia). Customer segments span industrial hygiene and occupational health, environmental and ambient air quality monitoring, emergency response and firefighters, indoor air quality and green buildings, research and academia, and U.S. federal government agencies.

Name

Environmental Device Corporation

Legal name

Environmental Devices Corporation

Website

https://environmentaldevices.com/

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Environmental Devices Corporation, founded in 1990 in Plaistow, NH, manufactures real-time optical air quality and aerosol monitoring instruments under the HAZ-DUST and HAZ-SCANNER brands, serving industrial hygienists, researchers, emergency responders, and U.S. federal agencies through direct sales, GSA contracts, and a 30+ year global partnership with SKC Inc.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Air Quality Monitoring Instruments

NAICS

Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables (334513), Automatic Environmental Control Manufacturing for Residential, Commercial, and Appliance Use (334512), Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (33451)

SIC

Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823), Laboratory Analytical Instruments (3826)

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental & Safety Monitoring Instruments (Air quality, emissions, radiation, noise, gas detection) (IMAGAFAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Confined Space & Hazardous Atmosphere Monitoring (EUAHAGAK), Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Environmental Monitoring (VOC/CO2/PM2.5) (HSAHAGAG), Ambient Air Quality Monitoring (Criteria Pollutants & Air Toxics) (EUAHACAA)

Keywords

• Air quality monitoring
• Aerosol monitoring instruments
• Particulate matter detection
• Industrial hygiene equipment
• Occupational health monitoring

Headquarters

HQ city

Plaistow

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Air Quality Monitoring Hardware Sales: EDC's primary revenue stream is the sale of air quality monitoring instruments under the HAZ-DUST and HAZ-SCANNER brands. Products include personal aerosol monitors (HD-7204, DPM-7204, SM-7204), handheld monitors (HD-1620, HD-1100), area monitors (AA-3500, EPAM-5000, AQ-10), air quality stations (HIM-6000, GB-2000), weather stations (AS-2000), and filter-based samplers (DS-2.5). Revenue is generated on a one-time hardware purchase basis, with pricing at published list prices, GSA contract pricing, or negotiated volume pricing.
2. Annual Calibration and Service: EDC offers annual calibration services for all instruments, recommended to be performed each year. Instruments are returned to the Plaistow, NH facility where they are calibrated against master units using Arizona Road Dust in a dust chamber with Dore-Oliver Cyclone separation. The company also offers infield calibration verification via the CS-105 Calibration Span Reference. Before-and-after calibration data can be provided upon request during the RMA process.
3. Trade-In Program: EDC offers a trade-in program allowing customers to trade old HAZ-DUST monitors or competitor units (in any condition) for up to $600 credit toward a new HAZ-DUST model (HD-7204, DPM-7204, SM-7204, or HD-1620 handheld). This program incentivizes existing customers to upgrade and generates incremental hardware revenue.
4. Custom Engineering Services: EDC's engineering department offers custom manufacturing and design services for site-specific air monitoring applications, including custom hardware and software configurations, specialized sensor integration, and custom-engineered projects such as explosion-proof housing for the AQ-10 instrument, wireless network configurations for remote locations, and solar-powered instrument deployments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Environmental Devices Corporation designs and manufactures real-time air quality monitoring instruments sold under the HAZ-DUST and HAZ-SCANNER brands. Products include personal wearable aerosol monitors (HD-7204, DPM-7204, SM-7204), handheld multi-parameter monitors (HD-1620, HD-1100, AA-3500), ambient area monitors (EPAM-5000, AQ-10, DS-2.5), and configurable air monitoring stations (HIM-6000, GB-2000, AS-2000). The instruments combine optical light-scattering photometry with gravimetric filter sampling for OSHA, NIOSH, EPA, and MSHA regulatory compliance applications.

Product overview

Environmental Devices Corporation offers two main product lines: HAZ-DUST and HAZ-SCANNER, providing real-time air quality monitoring for research and industry. The HAZ-DUST line includes portable handheld and personal wearable monitors (HD-1620, HD-7204, DPM-7204, SM-7204, HD-1100, AA-3500, AQ-10) plus the EPAM-5000 and DS-2.5 for ambient/fixed monitoring. The HAZ-SCANNER line features configurable multi-sensor monitoring stations (HIM-6000, GB-2000) plus the AS-2000 weather station. Products range from survey tools for occupational health and safety compliance (OSHA, NIOSH, MSHA) to ambient air monitoring systems for EPA compliance. Both lines support wireless networking, data logging, and proprietary software for analysis and reporting.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Haz-Dust™: Product line of real-time portable aerosol monitors for occupational health and industrial hygiene applications, including personal monitors, handheld devices, and area monitors for dust, diesel particulates, and respirable silica.
• Haz-Scanner™

Products and services

• HD-1620 Handheld Multi Parameter Monitor

Quantifiable outcome

• Predictive Logic Features reduce the number of unknown non-detect and overloaded laboratory samples, saving time and money
• +3 more outcomes

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Richard J. Wolnik FoundationminorOthers · 29 June 2026The Richard J. Wolnik Foundation organizes an annual golf tournament for ALS Research. 100% of proceeds are gifted to the Sean M. Healey and AMG Center for ALS Research at Massachusetts General Hospital. The foundation aims to support research for approximately 500,000 people worldwide affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). EDC appears to be a participant/organizer of this fundraising event.
• SKC Inc.coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSKC Inc. is EDC's primary global distribution partner with over 30 years of partnership. SKC distributes the complete HAZ-DUST and HAZ-SCANNER product lines internationally. EDC displays SKC's logo on its homepage as 'Proud Partners With SKC Inc. for Over 30 Years.' SKC operates regional subsidiaries including SKC West, SKC Europe, and SKC Asia. SKC also provides a dedicated product configurator at skc-configurator.environmentaldevices.com for EDC products. The award announcement for the 2025 OH&S Industrial Hygiene Award specifically thanked SKC Inc. for helping connect EDC with organizations worldwide in their shared mission to improve worker health and safety.
• SKC EuropecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSKC Europe is the European subsidiary of SKC Inc. and serves as a regional distributor for EDC products in Europe.
• SKC WestcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSKC West is a regional subsidiary of SKC Inc. distributing EDC products in the western United States.
• SKC AsiacoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSKC Asia is the Asian subsidiary of SKC Inc. distributing EDC products in the Asia-Pacific region.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• TSI Incorporated: TSI is the dominant direct competitor in real-time aerosol and particle monitoring, offering the DustTrak, SidePak, and Optical Particle Sizer families that overlap directly with EDC's HAZ-DUST line for industrial hygiene and ambient PM measurement.
• Casella (Casella CEL): Casella is a UK-based industrial hygiene instrumentation specialist with personal aerosol monitors (e.g., Apex) and noise/vibration products directly competing with EDC's personal wearable HAZ-DUST range for occupational exposure monitoring.
• Aeroqual: Aeroqual provides portable and stationary air quality monitors (gas and particulate) for environmental, industrial, and IAQ applications, directly competing with EDC's HAZ-SCANNER HIM-6000 and GB-2000 platforms.
• Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions: Lighthouse provides airborne particle counters and cleanroom monitoring solutions that overlap with EDC's AQ-10 and HIM-6000 for fixed-point and ambient monitoring in pharmaceutical, semiconductor, and industrial environments.

Emerging players

• SKC Inc. SKC is EDC's primary global distribution partner but also a direct competitor through its own air sampling product lines (e.g., AirChek samplers, noise dosimeters). The dual relationship is both a channel asset and a competitive risk.
• Sensirion: Swiss sensor manufacturer producing high-volume PM and gas sensors (SPS30, SCD40) that are increasingly embedded in IAQ and HVAC products; represents a potential platform/competitor shift if its sensors become 'good enough' for entry-level monitoring applications.
• Aclima: Aclima operates a hyperlocal air quality sensor network using mobile and stationary platforms to deliver block-level pollution data. Competes with EDC's ambient air quality monitoring solutions in the environmental and smart city segments where compliance-grade gravimetric sampling is not required.

Broad incumbents

• Thermo Fisher Scientific (Environmental Instruments): Thermo Fisher supplies reference-grade federal equivalency method (FEM) ambient air monitors (e.g., 146i, 5030 SHARP) that compete with EDC's EPAM-5000 and HIM-6000 for compliance ambient air monitoring, but as part of a much broader analytical instrument portfolio.
• 3M Personal Safety Division (Detection): 3M's Detection Solutions business offers continuous dust monitors and fit-testing equipment that overlap with EDC's industrial hygiene offerings, though as part of a large personal safety product portfolio rather than a specialized air monitoring platform.
• Honeywell (RAE Systems / BW): Honeywell's RAE Systems and BW product lines provide portable and fixed gas and particulate monitors for industrial safety, hazmat, and emergency response — overlapping with EDC's HAZ-DUST and HIM-6000 product families in worker safety and first-responder use cases.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

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Funding rounds

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