The technology adapts to your need rather than the other way round. That is an easy sentence to write. It commits you only where you have several technologies to offer, and the right to say that none suits.
Every manufacturer partner documents its own technology with the precision of someone who has mastered it. None of them compares it to the others: that is not their job.
It is ours. Nine measurement families represented, and the right to point elsewhere when that is the better answer. That is what gives our view its weight when we say yes.
Our partners, technology by technology
Eleven partners: nine measurement families, and the software that puts them to work. Each card below links to the page describing the physics of the measurement, what it really sees, and the bound to verify before committing to a project.
The eleven, family by family
Sentronic
Process NIR, for solid dosage in pharma and for solids and powders in chemicals. Sterilisable probes, blender systems and line spectrometers.
ZEISS
NIR for agriculture, food and the processing industries outside pharma and chemicals. Field, laboratory and line instruments: the same technology from the field to the plant.
NIRRIN
High-precision tunable laser near infrared. A flux concentrated on each wavelength, which crosses the material rather than probing its surface.
Enwave Optronics
Portable, bench and process RAMAN spectrometers. Several excitation wavelengths, to arbitrate between signal intensity and fluorescence of the matrix.
Paeonia Innovations
MIR spectroscopy. The fundamental vibrations, so the finest specificity of the field, on liquid media and continuously.
Fraunhofer ITWM
Laboratory and line TERAHERTZ systems. Checking through an opaque pack, with no radiation protection.
Industrial Tomography Systems
Electrical capacitance and resistivity tomography. Seeing the phase distribution in an opaque vessel, pipe or column, with no multivariate model to maintain.
Phyllon
Optical coherence tomography OCT. Layer thickness and its dispersion, tablet by tablet, contact-free and with no model to calibrate.
InProcess-LSP
SR-DLS. A size distribution in a concentrated, turbid medium, with no dilution and in flow.
KAx Group
Chemometrics and process modelling software. The tool that turns a spectrum into a decision, and the file that makes it defensible.
ClearView Imaging
Machine vision and imaging. Cameras, optics, lighting and vision systems. The only family that counts and characterises objects one by one — the shape, size and position of each — rather than returning a single aggregate value.
A partnership of another kind
This one brings regulatory expertise rather than an instrument, and it comes in at a different moment of a project. We set it apart for those two reasons.
Galenisys
Regulatory validation before the FDA and the EMA
An in-line measurement that has to enter a control strategy, replace a release test or support a resubmission no longer turns on analytical performance. It turns on what can be demonstrated. That is another trade from ours, and we work hand in hand on that part.
What an analytical procedure has to demonstrate, and to whom: analytical procedure validation.
What partner means, concretely
The word covers two realities, and the distinction has consequences for you.
Exclusive distribution
We are the partner’s single point of entry on the French-speaking market, and sometimes beyond. We carry the offer, the integration, the commissioning, the training and the follow-up.
What that changes: one contact from the first trial to the maintenance, and a direct technical escalation to the partner where one is needed.
Privileged partnership
The relationship is direct access: full documentation, application support, loan of equipment for trials, difficult questions taken back to the design office.
What that changes: we test the technology against your problem — your material, your real conditions — before you have committed to anything.
A portfolio is there to choose with, and so to set aside with
Rather than asserting that the answer is NIR or RAMAN, we test the candidate technologies against your problem, in your real conditions. The proof of concept says whether one of them holds, and which.
It is the one honest way to use a broad portfolio. Without that step, breadth proves nothing. How a proof of concept runs.
Your sector changes which partners we propose
The representation agreements are segmented by market, and so are the instruments. A partner that is a reference in pharma is not necessarily the one we will propose in food, for reasons of design as much as of contract.
Two NIR partners appear above, and that is no redundancy. One is our reference on solid dosage in pharma and on solids and powders in chemicals. The other on agriculture, food and the processing that falls into neither. The constraints have nothing in common. A sterilisable probe on a pharmaceutical blender and a field instrument that has to hold dust, humidity and a measurement in the field belong to different engineering.
So we propose the one that matches your market rather than the one we are used to selling. It is a constraint of our agreements, and it works in your favour.
It obliges us to reason market by market rather than recommend the same equipment everywhere. What we do in your sector.
How a partner enters the portfolio
The first criterion is the most decisive: the instrument has to have been designed for the line. A laboratory instrument adapted afterwards — hardened, re-housed, mounted in a rack — keeps the design of a laboratory instrument. A measurement geometry meant for a sample that is presented, a rate meant for an operator, a maintenance routine meant for a bench. It shows on the first campaign, and no software makes up for it.
Then come three conditions: that the technology holds in real conditions, that its documentation stands up to reading, and that its technical support answers when a project gets complicated. In each family we retain the partners that meet these conditions. The selection is part of the service.
It is also why this site publishes the bounds of every technology, including the ones we represent. A bound stated by the manufacturer itself is a mark of seriousness, and we carry it across as it stands.
You are a manufacturer looking for representation
We study each proposal, and we retain those that keep the portfolio defensible. Four questions decide, and the last three are the ones we put to a customer as well.
- Was your instrument designed for the line, or adapted from a laboratory instrument? It is the question that rules out the most proposals, and it is settled on the drawings.
- What does your technology do that ours do not? A duplicate brings a customer nothing and puts us in a position to sell by habit rather than by reason.
- Where does its domain end? Documentation that states its own bounds is documentation you can rely on.
- What happens when a project goes off course? Application support at the difficult moment is what separates a partner from a supplier.
Describe your process. You will hear which of these technologies answers it, or that another route serves better.
Forty-five minutes is enough to place your measurement question, set aside the technologies that do not suit, and know which one deserves a trial.