OI Corp.

O.I. Corporation, doing business as OI Analytical, designs, manufactures, markets, and services products, components, and systems for chemical analysis and monitoring in air and water. It offers laboratory products, including gas chromatography (GC) instruments and systems to separate organic compounds based on their physical and chemical properties; sample concentrators for sample introduction into GCs; GC detector devices; and total organic carbon analyzer systems and related accessories to measure organic and inorganic carbon levels in ultrapure, drinking, natural, ground, waste, and process water, as well as soils and solids.

The company's laboratory products also include automated chemistry analyzers, such as segmented flow and flow injection analyzers to perform various ion analyses, including the measurement of nitrate, nitrite, phosphate, ammonia, chloride, alkalinity, and sulfate in liquids; sample preparation products and systems to prepare sample matrices for analysis; and refrigerant monitors, which employ infrared based analyzers to monitor and detect low-level refrigerant leaks. The company offers MINICAMS air-monitoring systems to monitor air for toxic chemical compounds, including gaseous chemical-warfare agents to address air-monitoring levels, as well as provides on-site installation and support services.

The company serves environmental testing, food and flavors, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, power generation, chemical, and petrochemical industries, as well as military agencies of the U.S. Government, engineering and consulting firms, municipalities, beverage bottlers, and chiller-refrigerant companies. It sells products through a direct sales force, as well as, through a network of independent sales representatives and distributors.

The company was formerly known as Oceanography International Corporation and changed its name to O.I. Corporation in July 1980. O.I. Corporation was founded in 1963 and is headquartered in College Station, Texas.