Danaher Corporation
Industry:
Engineering, Industrial Services
Value of USG Contracts:
203
Symbol:
NYSE:DHR
States:
DC
Country:
USA
website:
Sources:
- Danaher Corporation is a major American manufacturing company with revenues of $12.7 billion as of 2008. Danaher manufactures tools and products for industrial, medical, engineering, and other high-tech applications (Company Website). One of its largest foreign subsidiaries, Linx Printing Technologies, has distribution in Iran, and products from two of its US subsidiaries, Tektronix and Fluke Corporation, are available for sale in Iran through the website of the Iranian company "Test Iran."
- Linx's Iranian distributor, Karyaran Pars Engineering Company, Ltd., “is the exclusive representative of Linx Printing Technologies, PLC,” in Iran, dealing in the sale, supply and technical support of ink-jet printers. The website also states that the company supports more than 1000 Linx machines it has installed in the country. Some of Karyaran's clientele include Pars Oil Co., Behran Oil Co., Bandar Imam Petroleum Co. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the state-owned National Iranian Petroleum Company - NPC), and Razi Chemical Co. (also a wholly-owned subsidiary of NPC), among other Iranian chemical and industrial companies. (Karyaran Pars Engineering Co. Website)
- “Test Iran” offers three types of Tektronix oscilloscope models (2215, TDS2024, 475) as well as a Tektronix TDS2CMAX Communication Module (Test Iran website). Notably, Tektronix has a strong relationship with the U.S. government (Tektronix website). For example, in August 2009, Tektronix won a $10.8 million contract to manufacture “5,000 oscilloscopes to support the US Navy’s general purpose electronic test equipment (GPETE) weapons system” (Defense Industry Daily. “Tektronix to Supply 5,000 Oscilloscopes for US Navy Test Equipment,” 8/29/10). Problematically, Tektronix oscilloscopes were used in the development of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons program in the 1980s and 1990s. In one example, Gary Milhollin, a UANI board member, notes in a 1992 New York Times article that Tektronix high-speed oscilloscopes, “needed to develop firing circuits for nuclear weapons and for nuclear tests,” were previously sold to Iraq (Gary Milhollin, “Building Saddam Hussein’s Bomb,” The New York Times,” 3/8/92). In 1991, two Iranian citizens were arrested in the US for selling unlicensed portable oscilloscopes to Iran.
- “Test Iran” sells several Fluke products, including multimeters, ampere meters, calibration equipment and an oscilloscope model, the Fluke 190 Series Portable Color Digital Scopemeter (Test Iran website). In 2006 it was reported that Iran had purchased dual use goods, such as Fluke Corporation equipment, through a Turkish trading firm (WMD Insights. “Iran exploited Turkish trading firm to produce dual-use goods from Western European, U.S. companies,” July/August 2006). Notably, Fluke has extensive business relations with the U.S. government. U.S. federal government customers include the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Department of the Treasury, Homeland Security, Department of Defense, White House and many other major U.S. federal governmental institutions. Fluke also works with all 50 state government, over 400 country governments and over 250 city governments (Fluke Networks website, “Government Solutions”).
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