About
UNITRON originated as a family-owned business in the early 1950s in Boston, Massachusetts. The company and its products has been in continuous successful operation for over 60 years earning an impressive reputation as a manufacturer of high quality microscopes, cameras, telescopes, and binoculars.
In 1975, UNITRON was bought by Ehrenreich Photo Optical Industries and moved from the New England area to Woodbury, New York. In 1981, Nippon Kogaku, the maker of Nikon cameras and microscopes, acquired Ehrenreich Photo Optical Industries and as such, UNITRON became part of the Nikon Instrument Group. UNITRON continued as part of the Nikon Instrument Group for five years at which time it was taken private by a management led buyout.
Since early 1976, UNITRON’s facilities have been located in the New York area (including Woodbury, Plainview, Bohemia, and now Commack ) and continues to be a major source of quality products to the industrial and scientific communities.
In 1983, The Leisure Products Division was established as a division of UNITRON with the goal of bringing the same “excellence by design” to the area of optics in the consumer market in addition to its high quality telescopes. The Leisure Product Division represented a new and exciting line of optical products designed to enhance the needs and enjoyment of the consumer market in the product lines of binoculars, telescopes, theater glasses, magnifiers, hobby microscopes, sports glasses, as well as many other fine quality optical products.
To this day, UNITRON continues to bring “excellence by design” by manufacturing a complete line of stereo, metallurgical and material science microscopes, as well as LED lights, digital microscopy cameras, telescopes, and binoculars.
In 2017, UNITRON acquired the LUXO microscopes division from Glamox A.S. The new division was originally called "LUXO Microscopes by UNITRON" and was renamed "LX Microscopes by UNITRON" in 2020 to reflect our continued commitment to delivering high quality microscopes for inspection, assembly and rework in electronics, medical devices, aerospace, automotive and communications industries.