Hach Company

Hach Company manufactures and distributes analytical instruments and reagents used to test the quality of water and other liquid solutions. Manufactured and distributed worldwide, Hach systems are designed to simplify analysis by offering on-line instrumentation, portable laboratory equipment, prepared reagents, easy-to-follow methods, and technical support.

Hach is a wholly owned subsidiary of Danaher Corporation (DHR), a fortune 500 corporation.

Hach’s global headquarters in Loveland, Colorado, houses research and development laboratories, instrument manufacturing operations, and the Hach Technical Training Center. Hach has an additional facility in Ames, Iowa, for manufacturing and packaging Hach's chemical reagents and test kits.

History

1947–1968: founding

Hach Company was founded in 1947, in Ames, Iowa, by Clifford and Kathryn Hach. Clifford Hach was a chemist and an inventor. The couple experienced their first business success through the development of a simplified titration method for measuring hardness in drinking water. As the product line expanded to include more parameters and instruments, the company continued to “bring analytical chemistry out of the laboratory and put it into the workplace and in the hands of the general public.” Initially, Kathryn Hach began marketing to municipal drinking water plants through direct mail.