THERMEDICS INC. Subsidiaries of the Registrant At February 28, 1999, the Registrant owned the following companies: STATE OR JURISDICTION OF PERCENT OF NAME INCORPORATION OWNERSHIP - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Corpak Inc. Massachusetts 100 Walpak Company Illinois 100 TV Acquisition Corporation Delaware 100 TMD Holdings Inc. Delaware 100 TMO TCA Holdings, Inc. Delaware 100 Thermedics Detection Inc. Massachusetts 83.79** (additionally, 4.57% of the shares are owned directly by The Thermo Electron Companies Inc.) Detection Securities Corporation Massachusetts 100 Orion Research, Inc. Massachusetts 100 Advanced Sensor Technology Massachusetts 100 Orion Research Limited United Kingdom 100 Orion Research Puerto Rico, Inc. Delaware 100 Russell pH Limited Scotland 100 Rutter & Co. Netherlands 100 Rutter Instrumentation S.A.R.L. France 90 Systech B.V. Netherlands 50 ThermedeTec Corporation Delaware 100 Thermedics Detection de Argentina S.A. Argentina 100 (1% of which shares are owned directly by Thermedics Detection Inc.) Thermedics Detection de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. Mexico 100 Thermedics Detection GmbH Germany 100 Thermedics Detection Limited United Kingdom 100 Thermedics Detection Scandinavia AS Norway 100 Thermo Sentron Inc. Delaware 74.25** (additionally, 12.00% of the shares are owned directly by The Thermo Electron Companies Inc.) Allen Coding Systems Limited United Kingdom 100 Allen Coding Corporation Delaware 100 Goring Kerr Limited United Kingdom 100 Best Checkweighers Limited United Kingdom 100 Intertest (UK) Limited United Kingdom 100 Goring Kerr Detection Limited United Kingdom 100 Graseby Goring Kerr (NZ) Limited New Zealand 100 Graseby Goring Kerr Canada Inc. Ontario 100 Graseby Product Monitoring GmbH Germany 100 Goring Kerr Inc. New York 100 Ramsey France S.A.R.L. France 100 Ramsey Ingenieros S.A. Spain 100 Ramsey Italia S.R.L. Italy 100 Tecno Europa Elettromeccanica S.R.L. Italy 100 Ramsey Technology Inc. Massachusetts 100 Xuzhou Ramsey Technology Development Co., Limited China 50* Thermo Sentron Australia Pty. Ltd.. Australia 100 STATE OR JURISDICTION OF PERCENT OF NAME INCORPORATION OWNERSHIP - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thermo Sentron B.V. Netherlands 100 Thermo Sentron Canada Inc. Canada 100 Thermo Sentron GmbH Germany 100 Thermo Sentron Limited United Kingdom 100 Hitech Electrocontrols Limited United Kingdom 100 Hitech Licenses Ltd. United Kingdom 100 Hitech Metal Detectors Ltd. United Kingdom 100 Westerland Engineering Ltd. United Kingdom 100 Thermo Sentron SEC Corporation Massachusetts l00 Thermo Sentron (South Africa) Pty. Ltd. South Africa 100 TMD Securities Corporation Massachusetts 100 Thermo Cardiosystems Inc. Massachusetts 60.05** (additionally, 0.21% of the shares are owned directly by The Thermo Electron Companies Inc.) International Technidyne Corporation Delaware 100 International Technidyne Corporation Limited United Kingdom 100 Nimbus Inc. Massachusetts 100 TCA Securities Corporation Massachusetts 100 Thermo Voltek Corp. Delaware 66.45** (additionally, 2.74% of the shares are owned directly by The Thermo Electron Companies Inc.) Thermo Voltek Europe B.V. Netherlands 100 Comtest Instrumentation, B.V. Netherlands 100 Comtest Italia S.R.L. Italy 100 Comtest Limited United Kingdom 100 Milmega Limited United Kingdom 100 TVL Securities Corporation Delaware 100 UVC Realty Corp. New York 100 * Joint Venture/Partnership ** As of January 2, 1999