ORTEC is an industry leader in the design and manufacture of precision detectors, nuclear instrumentation, analysis software, and systems for industry, academia, and government agencies. The ORTEC product line includes High Purity Germanium radiation detectors and analysis equipment for Homeland Security, Nuclear Counting Labs, Health Physics, Scientific Research, Safeguards, Waste Assay and Non Destructive Assay applications.

As a global manufacturer, ORTEC brand products are used in a wide variety of nuclear measurements from research to applied systems including homeland security applications. ORTEC specializes in the design and fabrication of turn-key spectroscopy systems.

ORTEC was originally founded in 1960 by a group of scientists from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to provide a commercial source for research grade silicon surface barrier charged particle detectors. ORTEC has grown to provide state-of-the-art solutions in virtually all areas of nuclear measurements.