This week, November 27, 2012, we exhibited at the ASSE (American Society of Safety Engineers) regional conference in Nashua, NH.

As a past President of the Boston ASSE Chapter (1995-1996), this is always one of my favorite trade shows. I get a chance to catch up with old friends, some of whom served on the Board with me.

We featured the complete Draeger product line at this show. Attendees were impressed by Draeger’s advances in sensor technology for both portable and fixed gas detection. As the largest world wide manufacturer of gas detection, Draeger has the resources and expertise to patent dozens of innovations.

Some of the new Draeger portable gas detectors have 5 year warranties on the oxygen, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen sulfide sensors – this is astounding to people who are used to replacing the sensors in their instruments every 12-24 months (at a cost of $ 150-$ 250 per sensor!).

Draeger’s fixed gas detection group has also introduced many breakthrough in sensor technology – true predictive maintenance on electrochemical sensors, infrared sensors with multiple calibration curves on the transmitter, and carbon monoxide sensors that aren’t affected by the presence of hydrogen.