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The company designs and manufactures scientific instrumentation devices intended to be used with optical microscopes or scanning electron microscopes to enable the observation of materials reaction with various environment conditions and to measure and test their mechanical and thermal properties.

There are three main products offered for distribution :

- First product allows to perform thermal tests on materials. During the thermal stress from -150°C to 1000°C it is possible to inject gases (O2, H2, Water vapor) and observe under microscope simultaneoously.

- Second product allows to perform thermo-mechanical tests on materials. During the thermal stress from -150°C to 1000°C and up to 10kN it is possible to inject gases (O2, H2, Water vapor) and observe under microscope simultaneoously.

- Third product allows to observe geological properties of rocs, Gems...by cathodoluminescence.

The end users are all research centers private or public, universities, oil companies, mineralogy, geology...

The company started its activity in 2012, relying on the professional experience of three engineers having know-hows in complementary fields. The company addresses specific needs in different markets such as :
- Instrumentation design to thermo-mechanically constrain materials
- The transformation of scientific instruments to carry out analyses in hostile environments (ex : nuclear, chemical, etc.) and the automation of scanning electron microscopes (SEMs).
- Electronics, detectors and calibration methods

The company is looking for partnerships with distributors having technical after sales services throught distribution services agreements or throught joint venture agreements including several partnership possibilities like access to a sales network, distribution of each partner's products or joint developments.

The potential partner should be involved in activities with research centers, universities, laboratories and has after sales services to support potential customers.

Advantages & innovations

The devices enable customer to test materials under the environment of use. Working under vacuum it is possible to inject gases during the test. The company is able to do thermo-mechanical tests under a controled atmosphere and observe simultneousely the reactions of the tested material with the environment. The possiblity to inject gases on the stressed material during the observation is a real advantage to understand the material evolution on the environment of use. The competitive advantage compared to other solutions on the market lies in the possibility of carrying out tests automatically during observation, knowing that the overall duration of a test can be greater than 24 hours.

Stage of development

Already on the market

Partner sought

The company is interested in partnerships with distributors involved in the oil industry, mineralogy and universities through distribution services agreement or joint venture agreement. Several partnership possibilities are proposed under a joint-venture agreement: - The partner sells different products and gives access to his commercial network which corresponds to the field of the company or - The partner distributes the company's products in its area and the company distributes the partner's products in France or - The partner and the company have related products and can make joint technical and / or commercial developments All research centers may be interested by the products offered for distribution. The partner will be trained by the company to do demonstrations, installation and training of the products. The partner's team should be able to do the first level of after sales service and maintenance.