Electronic Sensor Technology Newbury Park.

Over the past year, 10-year old Newbury Park-based Electronic Sensor Technology has made its largest strides yet, setting record revenues and generating its first ever profitability as a public company. And the company's executives expect 2006 to be even more lucrative, as it expands its international business and uses $7 million in capital funding to try to further penetrate the defense market in the United States.

Electronic Sensor is the manufacturer of a chemical vapor analysis technology which is able to analyze the chemistry of any aroma, fragrance, odor, or vapor in just 10 seconds. This new technology based upon ultra-high speed gas chromatography, has resulted in an electronic nose called the zNose.

"We're doing quite well in China, England and Europe and our next target is to penetrate the massive defense market in the United States," Teong Lim, Electronic Sensor's vice president of corporate development, said. "We just got $7 million in funding and we're going to spend that on marketing domestically. The zNose is primarily used for homeland security by the Department of Defense and the TSA, but we're also getting orders for the agricultural markets. The Department of Homeland Security typically orders only from the bigger players, but we're trying to change that."