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Yves Gamache shakes up the gas analysis and chromatography industry with the invention of the K2000, a small, low-weight analyzer that was superior to every commercially available instrument.

Yves Gamache‘s longtime associate, André Fortier, joins him to form Contrôle Analytique. The company would go on to develop a host of disruptive technologies, including the K2001. A quantum leap in the domain, this N2 analyzer becomes an instant worldwide success and 30 years later, it’s still the market reference.

A new design makes the K2001’s detection limit the best in the industry, and it becomes the K2002. Thanks to our reputation and track record, the K2002 is an instant success in the semiconductor industry.

The first of its kind, the K3000 is released and it too revolutionizes the industry. The solution finds its niche in many semiconductor plants around the world.

Programmed by André Lamontagne (today’s ASDevices president), the K4000 is the first plasma emission detector-based process chromatograph to offer a complete graphic interface and parallel real-time chromatography.

Contrôle Analytique is sold to Servomex, and the team begins focusing on the development of innovative new valves – ones that give rise to a company named Analytical Flow Products (AFP).

AFP become the leading provider of GC valves. Then, in 2017, the company is sold and a new entity is born – Analytical Sensing Devices (ASDevices). Based in Thetford, Québec, Canada, ASDevices boasts over three decades of gas chromatography and analysis experience and expertise.

To protect their ever-growing range of innovations, the ASDevices team spends a great deal of time filing patents to cover all core technologies worldwide.

A highly sensitive detector with multiple wavelength capabilities makes new ways of doing chromatography possible.

As the company grows, a new 1,000m2 office opens in China. This site is led by Frank Zhu, ASDevices V.P. Asia.

A unique purge technology eliminates leaks and becomes the most reliable, durable valve on the market.

The company expands into Europe.

A revolutionary crude argon analyzer makes results available 20x faster than anything else on the market. After two years of development and validation by leading argon producers, this new technology becomes the reference to further improve argon recovery and reduce energy consumption.

Based on 3 years of research with hydrogen manufacturers, the world’s first process solution for fuel-grade hydrogen quality analysis ushers in the transition to green energy. As the only solution that can measure ultra-trace sulfur to below 4 ppb without a sample concentrator, it’s a true revolution for the industry. The solution is inaugurated at the Sinopec Yanshan plant which will deliver the hydrogen for vehicles to be used during the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Today, ASDevices is an international leader in gas chromatography and gas analysis, offering robust, reliable solutions to a range of industries. Our relentless obsession with R&D, passion for innovation and drive to exceed expectations drives us to strive to make things better – every day. What will be next?