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Trappe Manufacturer Celebrating 110 Years
H-B Instrument, which produces thermometers, hydrometers and related products, is celebrating its 110 anniversary in 2013.

H-B Instrument, a leading producer of thermometers and related products that was founded in 1903 and has spent decades in its Trappe campus, is celebrating 110 years in 2013.
The company, located at 102 West 7th Ave, manufactures "temperature, density, weather, and time instruments to the scientific, industrial and healthcare markets."
H-B Instrument was the first comapny to introduce "EnviroKleen," eliminating the use of mercury in thermometers.
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In June 2012, H-B Instrument was acquired by Bel-Art Products of Wayne, NJ.
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