CAMON

What CAMON does

Xi'an Camon Automatic Instrument Co., Ltd (CAMON, DBA: DLUK) is a privately held Chinese industrial instrumentation manufacturer founded in 1957, headquartered in Xi'an with a production facility in Changzhou. The company designs and manufactures standalone instruments for temperature, flow, pressure, and level measurement, including thermocouples (Types B/E/J/K/N/R/S/T), PT100/PT1000 RTDs, electromagnetic, vortex, turbine, Coriolis, and ultrasonic flow meters, mechanical and digital pressure gauges, pressure transducers, and a range of level meters, switches, and sensors using magnetic, ultrasonic, hydrostatic, and 26GHz radar technologies. Select products integrate industrial communication protocols such as 4-20mA, HART, RS485/Modbus, Zigbee, and WirelessHART, and explosion-proof variants are certified to standards including ExiaIICT4 Ga and Ex d[ia]ia IIBT6 for hazardous-environment deployment.

CAMON operates a direct factory-sales model, taking inquiry-based orders through its website, email, phone, WhatsApp, and Skype with a minimum order quantity of one piece, 3-7 day delivery for standard or customized products, and quantity-based discounts. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. The portfolio is sold under the company's own DLUK brand and also via OEM/custom manufacturing services for buyers with specialized specifications. ISO-standard production management supports a stated monthly capacity of more than 10,000 units, and the company states it serves global industrial customers across petroleum, chemical, power, fertilizer, water treatment, metallurgy, glass, boilers, and defense/military applications, naming BASF, Bayer, Henkel, DuPont, Shell Group, KROHNE, and YOKOGAWA as cooperation partners.

The go-to-market combines a multilingual website, social media presence (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google+, YouTube), industry-knowledge content, trade show participation, and multi-modal logistics covering door-to-door express, air, sea, and land freight to customers in Asia, Europe, North America, Australia, Africa, the Middle East, Russia, and Latin America. Revenue is generated primarily through hardware sales of measurement instruments plus custom/OEM engineering services, with no disclosed software, subscription, AI, or platform offering.

Name

CAMON

Legal name

Xi'an Camon Automatic Instrument Co.,Ltd

Website

https://a-instrument.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1957

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Xi'an Camon Automatic Instrument Co., Ltd is a privately held Chinese manufacturer founded in 1957 that designs and produces industrial measurement instruments for temperature, flow, pressure, and level, selling direct from its Changzhou factory to enterprise customers worldwide under its DLUK brand.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Xian Shi

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Instrument Manufacturing and Sales: CAMON generates revenue through manufacturing and selling industrial measurement instruments including thermocouples, RTD sensors, flow meters, pressure gauges, pressure transducers, and level measurement instruments. The company produces over 10,000 PCS per month and offers both standard products and OEM services to meet special requirements.
2. Custom/OEM Manufacturing Services: The company provides customized products and OEM service to satisfy special requirements from customers. This includes custom specifications and design services for industrial applications.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

CAMON manufactures and sells industrial measurement and control instruments for temperature, flow, pressure, and level measurement across industrial applications. The company produces thermocouples (Types B, E, J, K, N, R, S, T), RTD sensors (PT100, PT1000), flow meters (electromagnetic, vortex, turbine, Coriolis, ultrasonic, oval gear), pressure gauges, pressure transducers, and level measurement instruments under its own DLUK brand. The company offers both standardized catalog products and OEM/customized manufacturing services for special customer requirements.

Product overview

CAMON is an industrial instrumentation manufacturer with over 60 years of experience producing temperature, flow, level, and pressure measurement instruments. The product portfolio consists of standalone industrial instruments organized into three main categories: Thermocouple Transducer (including bimetallic, glass, digital thermometers, thermocouples, RTDs, and weather stations), Flow Meter (encompassing glass rotameter, metal tube, electromagnetic, vortex, oval gear, Coriolis mass, turbine, and ultrasonic technologies), and Pressure/Level instrumentation (including pressure gauges, pressure transducers, level meters, level switches, and level sensors). The company also produces specialized sub-products under its DLUK brand. All products operate as standalone measurement devices with standard industrial signal outputs (4-20mA, 1-5V, RS485/Modbus) rather than integrated software platforms. Monthly production capacity exceeds 10,000 units.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• DLUK: Company's own international brand for measurement and control instruments

Products and services

• Thermocouple Transducer

Quantifiable outcome

• Production capacity exceeds 10,000 units per month
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• BASFcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCAMON cooperates with BASF for temperature, flow, level, and pressure measurement instruments in chemical processing applications.
• BayercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCAMON provides measurement instruments to Bayer for chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing processes.
• HankelcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Hankel for industrial measurement solutions in chemical processing.
• DuPontcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCAMON supplies measurement instruments to DuPont for various industrial applications.
• Shell GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Shell Group for energy sector measurement and control instrumentation.
• KROHNEcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperation with KROHNE, a major industrial instrumentation company, for flow measurement and related instruments.
• YOKOGAWAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperation with YOKOGAWA, a leading industrial automation and control company, for comprehensive measurement solutions.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Endress+Hauser: German family-owned global leader in industrial process measurement instrumentation for flow, level, pressure, temperature, and analytics. Directly comparable across CAMON's entire product stack and is the most relevant benchmark for an integrated mid-size instrument manufacturer.
• Badger Meter: US-based flow measurement specialist covering electromagnetic, ultrasonic, and Coriolis technologies. Closest US-headquartered analog to CAMON's flow-meter product line and OEM positioning.
• VEGA Grieshaber: German family-owned specialist in level, pressure, and switching instrumentation. Closely aligned to CAMON's level-meter, level-switch, and radar-level-gauge offerings across industrial process verticals.
• WIKA: German global specialist in pressure, temperature, level, and flow measurement. Closely comparable to CAMON in product breadth, customer verticals (chemicals, petrochemicals, oil & gas), and certification scope.
• KROHNE: German specialist in flow, level, temperature, and process analytics — particularly strong in electromagnetic, Coriolis, and ultrasonic flow meters. Listed as a CAMON customer/partner, indicating direct product overlap and co-supplier roles.
• Yokogawa Electric: Japanese industrial automation and measurement company with a comprehensive flow/temperature/pressure portfolio. Listed as a CAMON customer and partner, underscoring its direct competitive overlap and ecosystem positioning.
• Emerson Electric (Rosemount): US-based industrial automation major whose Rosemount line leads in pressure, temperature, flow, and level measurement. Direct competitor for global enterprise customers such as BASF, Shell, and DuPont.

Broad incumbents

• Honeywell Process Solutions: US-based process automation business of Honeywell offering measurement and control instrumentation as part of integrated solutions. Competes for enterprise accounts in oil & gas, chemicals, and refining.
• Siemens: German industrial automation incumbent whose SITRANS and SIMATIC lines span flow, level, pressure, and temperature. Competes for the same large-enterprise, multi-country project awards as CAMON.
• ABB: Swiss-Swedish industrial automation conglomerate offering measurement products alongside drives, motors, and robotics. Overlaps CAMON in process instrumentation but operates at much broader portfolio scope.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/Vacuum_meter
• Facebookfacebook.com/CAMONinstrument
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/13277991
• Pinterestpinterest.com/camonerinstrume

Compliance9 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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