MOCON, Inc. (Public, NASDAQ:MOCO) designs, manufactures, markets and services products and provides consulting services primarily in the measurement and analytical instrument and services markets. The Company’s products include instruments that detect, measure and monitor gases and chemical compounds. The Company develops, manufactures, markets and services measurement, analytical and monitoring products used to detect, measure and analyze gases and chemical compounds, as well as provide related consulting services. Its gas and vapor permeation products were used in the food packaging industry to measure small amounts of moisture which adversely affects dry cereal and other food packaging. Its products serve markets from foods, beverages, pharmaceuticals and consumer products, to oil and gas exploration, industrial safety and homeland security.
In 1966, he founded Modern Controls, Inc., and in 1968 it became a public company trading locally in Minnesota. In 1979 the company became a nationally traded public company on the NASDAQ exchange with the symbol "MOCO".
In 1999 the company name changed to MOCON, Inc.