Ametek, Inc. has agreed to buy Mocon, Inc. for $182 million. Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, Mocon, which recorded sales of $63 million in 2016, is a provider of laboratory and field gas analysis instrumentation to research laboratories, production facilities and quality control departments in food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and industrial applications. “Mocon is an excellent company that has tremendous synergy with Ametek,” said David Zapico, chief exe...