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Cross Company History – B&C Instruments

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Founded in 1969 in Huntsville, AL, B&C Instruments was one of the oldest calibration laboratories in the southeastern U.S. They offered a very broad scope of high quality, high accuracy calibration services that included a large range of electronic, physical, and dimensional parameters with technicians specialized in electrical measuring instrument repair. Customers and industries served included aerospace, automotive, pharmaceuticals, missiles and defense, electronic manufacturing, telecommunication, other general industry and manufacturing.

In 2017, B&C Instruments was acquired by J.A. King, which would go on to become our Precision Measurement Group. The addition of the B&C Instruments team further increased J.A. King’s market share in Alabama and expanded its calibration and repair capability in multiple industries throughout the region. Today, the B&C Instruments team operates as our Huntsville, AL area calibration laboratory.

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Did you know… Cross Company is an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan). Our ESOP started in 1979 and as of 2006, we are 100% employee-owned! Learn more about our ESOP and how that benefits both team members and our customers.
Did you know... the precision measurement group at Cross was founded in 1939 by our current CEO's grandfather, Jim King. That's a whole lot of calibration!
Did you know... A fingerprint weighs about 50 micrograms. We know, we weighed it! The residue left from a finger can actually make a difference in weight results which is why we wear gloves when we calibrate weights. For reference, a sheet of paper is about 4.5 grams, that’s 4.5 million micrograms.
Did you know… Cross Company has grown significantly since our start in 1954. Over the years we've acquired 26 companies! Today, our five groups have expertise in everything from industrial automation to precision measurement, and industry knowledge going all the way back to 1939.