temporary situations, such as turnarounds, shutdowns, or outages. The company serves oil refinery, oil exploration and drilling, petrochemical, underground mining and tunneling, utilities, municipal agencies, steel and coke production, chemical manufacturing, pulp and paper, construction, education, government regulatory agencies, military, insurance, and food and beverage processing companies. It offers its products through distributors in the United States and internationally. Industrial Scientific Corporation was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Oakdale, Pennsylvania with additional offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Dubai, India, Mexico, Qatar, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. It has operations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Arras, France; Dortmund, Germany; and Shanghai, China.