Fluid Imaging Technologies Blog Over 1000 FlowCam Instruments, in More Than 60 Countries, and on Every Continent: Making the World a Safer Place.

Ilmars Labrencis, Yokogawa Fluid Imaging Director of Operations (the one responsible for getting all of those FlowCams out the door to our customers), rings the bell for the sale of the 1000th FlowCam! Earlier this month Yokogawa Fluid Imaging Technologies sold its 1,000th FlowCam instrument. “I am so proud of what our company has achieved since being founded in 1999”, commented Kent Peterson, company CEO. “We started our company in a garage in East Boothbay, and today we can proudly say there are over 1,000 FlowCam instruments being used in over 60 countries”. Invented at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay in 1999, the FlowCam was originally developed to speed up manual microscopy and automate the often-tedious process of plankton enumeration and classification. In the 21+ years since, the FlowCam has helped customers in a variety of fields to view and identify subvisible particles and organisms faster and more easily than previously possible.