About Nortek

Nortek AS is a scientific instrumentation company that develops and distributes water velocity instruments.  Our products are based on the acoustic Doppler principle and span from single point turbulence sensors to long range current profilers. Our customers are scientists, research institutions, and consulting engineers, all with demanding applications requiring state-of-the-art instrumentation that is reliable and easy to use.

Our main office is about 15 km south of Oslo, Norway and this is where we do  development, product assembly and testing. In addition, we have subsidiaries in the US, UK, China, and the Netherlands, each with technical staff.  In other areas, our products are distributed by regional representatives. 

We currently ship close to 1000 instruments per year and our instruments are in use in more than 75 countries around the world.

Nortek is privately held.