The precision gage-making legacy of the Dorsey gage Company, founded in 1955 by Theodore Luty, Sr., continues in this millennium as Dorsey metrology International. At Dorsey Metrology International, we are committed to excellence in every aspect of our organization, from outstanding customer relations to the highest quality product service and support.

• We shall be attentive to our customers' needs
• We shall maintain foresight essential to promotion of continued excellence in design and manufacturing
• We shall apply available resources to continually improve our products and organization.
• We shall strive to gain and maintain our industry leadership built on innovation

It is an exciting time for us at Dorsey Metrology International. Our recent release of the Ultra accuracy series of optical inspection instruments coupled with the introduction of our new line of precision measurement hand tools was the result of many years of product development and customer input.

We have learned from our customers that quality and attention to detail DOES matter. While our competition is increasing profits by redesigning their products using plastic and aluminum, we have redesigned our new instruments on a foundation of cast iron.

While our competition is focusing on electronic and optical gimmickry to compensate their instruments, we are tightening manufacturing tolerances to maintain uncompensated absolute inherent accuracy.

While our competition is importing parts and subassemblies, we have pumped money into our manufacturing areas and we have developed new tooling and solutions to enhance our internal manufacturing.

As we look to the future, we will not forget the lessons of our past and we will continue to maintain our high quality standards. We will continuously improve our products to help our company and our customers remain competitive and successful. The new millennium looks very promising indeed for Dorsey Metrology International.

In 1955 Dorsey Gage Company was incorporated in New York State by its founder, Theodore F. Luty Sr., and his wife Helen Luty. The company began in Hyde Park, New York as a machine shop specializing in the manufacture of simple inspection gages and sub-contract machining. From the very beginning, the company aim was to provide precision craftsmanship and customer satisfaction. As the company grew, it began to design and build equipment, which addressed the specific needs of its customers. This exposure in turn provided the basis for the continuing development of Dorsey Gage Company's standard inspection products.

In 1975 Dorsey purchased the instrument division of the Hamilton Watch Company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This acquisition added the well-known and respected Hamilton-Datcon dial indicator instruments to the Company's products. During 1976 Dorsey relocated to the 35,000 square foot building at 253 Mansion Street in the City of Poughkeepsie, New York.

In 1986 Dorsey Gage acquired Pexit, an English company known throughout Europe and Asia for their high quality, precision optical comparators. The design and facilities of Pexit were relocated to Poughkeepsie, New York, where it became the Optical Metrology Division of Dorsey Gage. Since its inception, the Optical Metrology Division has adapted the Dorsey philosophy of providing a top quality inspection instrument that exactly matches the customers' requirements.

Throughout this entire development of the Dorsey family of inspection products, the company also continued the sale of their craftsman services. These services included; instrumentation, contract machining, inspection, automation and the manufacture of special tooling and equipment. While catering to a variety of companies, their most prominent customer was IBM Corporation; the area's largest. It was through these efforts that Dorsey Gage Company became involved in a project known as the electrostatic chuck program.

On December 22, 1992, following a four and a half-year collaboration between Dorsey Gage Company and International Business Machines, East Fishkill, New York, the two companies signed a license and marketing agreement. This agreement allowed Dorsey Gage to commercialize the IBM technology and establish the Electrostatic Chuck Division. The ESC Division manufactured and marketed electrostatic chucks and associated products used within the semiconductor industry. Also joining the Dorsey team as consultants were the coinventors of the electrostatic chuck. The electrostatic chuck, with its exacting machining tolerances and assembly requirements, was a natural extension of Dorsey's fine gage making skills. These ESC products revolutionized the way a wafer is held within most OEM semi-conductor processing equipment.

On February 28, 2001, Dorsey Gage Company shareholders spun off the Metrology Division of the Company to the division's management. The new company, Dorsey Metrology International, consists of all the employees and assets of the former Metrology Division and will continue with the manufacture and distribution of inspection instruments, gages and optical comparators. Dorsey Metrology International worked with Mayor Colette Lafuente of the city of Poughkeepsie and the Dutchess County Economic Development Corporation's Interim President, Anne Conroy and Director of Information, Dr. Peter Winnie. As a result of their efforts the company will relocated to the former Naval Reserve at 53 Oakley Street, Poughkeepsie. Peter Klepp is President and Ted Luty Jr. is the C.E.O. of Dorsey Metrology International.