June 23, 2025

BYK-Gardner USA: PELT Ultrasound Site COMPLETES EXPANSION AND RELOCATION

Fairport, New York – BYK-Gardner USA has officially relocated its ultrasound operations from Pittsford to a newly renovated facility at 320 Macedon Center Road in the Town of Perinton. The site celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, June 3, attended by both local and international employees.

The new 25,000 square-feet building represents a significant upgrade, offering an additional 16,000 square-feet compared to the previous location on Monroe Avenue in Pittsford. This expansion provides a state-of-the-art environment with ample space for production, research and development, warehousing, and modern office areas.

“BYK’s investment in this new facility underscores our commitment to creating an inspiring and enjoyable workplace,” said Gabi Kigle-Böckler, VP Marketing. “With this enhanced environment, we are well-equipped to develop innovative solutions to meet today’s and tomorrow’s global challenges.”

The Fairport site specializes in the development and manufacturing of high-precision, high-performance ultrasound testing solutions for quality assurance across a wide range of industrial applications. Its innovative high-frequency ultrasound PELT^® systems set the standard in the automotive industry, offering multi-layer film thickness measurement on any substrate with exceptional precision. These systems are available in both handheld and robotic configurations.

In the semiconductor sector, BYK-Gardner’s low- to mid-frequency pulsers and receivers serve as versatile tools for general flaw and defect detection. For more advanced applications, high-frequency pulsers and receivers – paired with state-of-the-art immersion transducers – are used in Scanning Accoustic Microscope (SAM) systems. These solutions deliver high-resolution ultrasonic imaging for detecting defects in wafers, microprocessor chips, bonded interfaces, and more.

Learn more about our multi-layer film thickness gauges:
https://www.byk-instruments.com/en/NDT-Ultrasound/c/26492
Learn more about our high-performance pulser&receivers and transducers:
https://imaginant.com/pelt-ts3-and-ts5

More information is available from BYK-Gardner GmbH, P.O. Box 970, 82534 Geretsried, Germany:
By fax: +49-8171-3493-140, the free service no. 0-800-gardner (0-800-4273637)
or on the internet at https://www.byk-instruments.com

About BYK

BYK is one of the world’s leading suppliers in the field of additives and measuring instruments. Additives are chemical substances which, when used in small quantities, improve product properties such as scratch resistance or surface gloss. Manufacturing processes are also optimized by the addition of additives.

The coatings, inks, and plastics industries are among the main consumers of BYK additives. Yet with the production of oil and gas, the manufacture of care products, the production of adhesives and sealants, and construction chemistry, too, BYK additives improve the product characteristics and production processes. Testing and measuring instruments from BYK can effectively evaluate the quality of color, gloss, and appearance as well as the physical properties of paint, plastic, and paper products and are an important part of quality control.

As a globally operating specialty chemicals company, BYK has production sites in Germany (Wesel, Kempen, Moosburg, Schkopau and Geretsried), in the Netherlands (Deventer, Nijverdal, and Denekamp), in Great Britain (Widnes), in the US (Wallingford, Chester, Gonzales, Louisville, and Earth City) and in China (Tongling).

Today the company employs around 2,300 people worldwide and forms part of the ALTANA Group.