Schonstedt Instrument Company provides solutions for the detection and location of objects and phenomena below the surface of the ground or water. The Company manufactures two types of instruments used to locate underground objects:

• Magnetic Locators — to find ferrous metals such as boundary markers, paved-over valve and manhole covers, drums and storage tanks, well casings, septic tanks, land mines, unexploded ordnance, etc.
• Pipe and Cable Locators — to find and trace any linear, electrically conductive material such as telephone, cable TV and fiber optic lines, water and gas pipes, and AC power lines.

Applications/Users — surveyors, construction and excavation contractors, utility companies (water and sewer, gas, electric, telecom, cable), facilities managers, maintenance groups, municipalities, environmental contractors, munitions response and explosive ordnance disposal teams.