Nixon Flowmeters Limited
Nixon Flowmeters was formed in 1969 and has always specialised in the manufacture and supply of flow meter and flow measurement devices.We can supply a wide range of flow meters from simple low cost All Plastic Variable Area flow meters to high accuracy Turbine and Electromagnetic types. We manufacture and stockhold liquid flow meters and gas flow meter types including water flow meters in many sizes. Nixon Flowmeters can offer flow meters for many applications such as fuel flow meter, oil flow meter, diesel flow meter and petrol flow meter types. The Streamflo water velocity meter is a specialised instrument for measuring velocities of water in open channels. Units are sold all over the world to Universities and Hydraulic Research Laboratories.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Water Monitoring and Testing
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
About us
With our chemically resistant, high accuracy digital flow meter designs with pulse outputs, we can handle almost any fluid. For hazardous areas turbine meters can be supplied with ATEX Intrinsically safe pick off coils.
We have a large range of secondary display instrumentation to choose from with flow rate, total flow throughput, retransmission, batching and scaled pulse option Electromagnetic flow meters are available in full bore and insertion type designs. The displays on these can show both flow rate and flow total.
Water flow meter sizes are stocked from ½” up to 2” single jet and multi jet designs with or without pulse outputs. Industrial flanged water flow meters are also available.Nixon Flowmeters are experts in the selection and supply of flow measurement equipment and any type of flow meter can be specified and supplied. We also stock hold hundreds of low cost all plastic variable area types for quick delivery. They are available with low/high flow switches and transmitters
History
Nixon Flowmeters was formed in 1969 as Nixon Instrumentation by Mr Bob Nixon, he has previously worked for Fisher and Porter Flowmeters and latterly as sales manager for Kent who manufactured a range of turbine flowmeters. Initially Bob worked from home before renting an office and workshop in the Novar Electronics factory in Abbey Road, Gloucester.
The business was then moved briefly to Gloucester Trading Estate before finding bigger premises at Kingsditch Trading Estate in Cheltenham. In 1981 the company relocated again to Charlton Kings Industrial Estate where it was based for many years.
1997 saw the company relocate again to company owned premises in Leckhampton with ample space for a full machine shop, spacious offices, stores and calibration facilities.
The company has always had turbine flowmeters as a primary product, firstly imported from Germany in the early years but the company quickly designed its own range including the innovative hygienic design that has sold so well over the years. A sole UK agency for Heinrichs of Germany brought ranges of Variable Area and Electromagnetic flowmeters to the UK market in 1974. 1980 saw the first stockholding of All Plastic variable area meters. In 1996 the company name was changed to Nixon Flowmeters to better advertise its primary business. In 2001 the company obtained the sole UK agency for Tecfluid of Barcelona therefore increasing its products portfolio again..