About

Spectron Glass and Electronics, Inc.—first founded in 1947 as Spectron Glass Laboratories—was originally established as a neon sign manufacturer. However, the focus of the company rapidly changed direction and in 1948, Spectron began building electrolytic tilt sensors, under contract from the Sperry Gyroscope Co. Realizing the vast potential of the sensor market, Spectron dedicated itself thereafter exclusively to the development and manufacture of various glass based electrolytic tilt sensors. Our technology is proprietary, made in the USA, and with trademark exclusivity is designed and manufactured by our talented staff of engineers and technicians, in Long Island, NY. 

Advancement of engineering technology has been at the core of our product evolution measured over decades, not years. Substantial contribution to this effort is greatly through the loyalty and dedication of our employees, both new and former, further reinforcing the fundamental goals of the company moving forward. As quoted by Spectron’s new CEO, Peter Frazzetto, “The organization’s singlemost objective is to continually produce advanced products on behalf of Spectron’s clients that are ideally suited to the demands of the past, the present and future”.

Spectron emerged over decades, producing state of the art tilt sensors for both the military and commercial marketplaces, and to our good fortune, that marketplace today is continuing to expand over 60 years later.  With current customers including Avionics, Maritime, Construction, Satellites, Medical, Navigation and Positioning Systems to name a few, our tilt sensors have been designed into most of the free world’s jet aircraft flight communication and navigation systems, both fixed and rotary. Spectron tilt sensors have also provided gravity reference for torpedoes, missiles, land navigation, ship antennas, microwave landing systems, and a host of other heavy equipment applications. As of late, we are now finding our customers adding the technology into a myriad of modern, technology driven components that were not a thought of possibility 60 years ago.

Realizing the markets need for more economical tilt sensing solutions, Spectron’s engineering team proceeded to develop new and innovative mountable tilt sensors using advanced Hybrid Ceramics, satisfying the most robust applications in extreme environments, both temperature and pressure. These sensors not only provide sensing in single and multi-axis applications, as the market has come to require, but we could also produce them at a fraction of the cost. This allowed the introduction of precision tilt sensing into many currently relevant applications previously cost prohibitive. Although our hand made class sensors are at the foundation of Spectron’s offerings to this day, the ceramic applications allow for unparalleled precision, customization, and designs to meet a myriad of applications.