Spectronics Corporation is the world's leading manufacturer of ultraviolet equipment and fluorescent materials. It supplies over 1,000 diverse products for the laboratory, biotechnology, industrial, electronics, semiconductor, X-ray, financial, automotive, HVAC/R and other markets. Spectronics Corporation also invented fluorescent leak detection, originally for the automotive industry, in 1955. The Spectroline method was laboratory- and field-tested extensively before it was introduced to the stationary air-conditioning and refrigeration (AC&R) market in 1989.