Expertise for advanced analysis

Endress + Hauser has expand­ed its cen­ter of com­pe­tence for advanced analy­sis in Lyon, France. The Group invest­ed 2 mil­lion euros in a new pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty and office space to meet the grow­ing demand in the area of advanced process analyses.

From Lyon, around 20 employ­ees sup­port Endress + Hauser sales cen­ters across Europe in the appli­ca­tion and sales of advanced analy­sis tech­nol­o­gy, with a focus on the project busi­ness and after-sales ser­vices. Ten sales cen­ters across Europe already have spe­cial­ists on board to han­dle this com­plex field of activity.

Customer-specific manufacturing

The new 630-square-meter pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty will be used for cus­tomer-spe­cif­ic man­u­fac­tur­ing and the assem­bly of com­plete analy­sis sys­tems. Round­ing out the facil­i­ty are offices, rooms for fac­to­ry accep­tance tests and space reserved for future use. The adja­cent 1,500-square-meter office build­ing, which opened in 2017, is also home to the Endress + Hauser France region­al sales office. With a total of 7,000 square meters, the prop­er­ty offers suf­fi­cient space to grow the loca­tion even further.

Strategic focus

“The expan­sion of the Lyon loca­tion allows us to do an even bet­ter job of bring­ing our exper­tise in the field of process analy­sis to our cus­tomers,” empha­sized Matthias Altendorf, CEO of the Endress + Hauser Group, dur­ing the ded­i­ca­tion cer­e­mo­ny on 17 July 2019. “This is an impor­tant strate­gic goal for us and helps our cus­tomers acquire more infor­ma­tion from their processes.”

Analysis portfolio expands

Advanced analy­sis pro­vides imme­di­ate infor­ma­tion relat­ed to mate­r­i­al prop­er­ties and prod­uct qual­i­ty. The com­pa­ny con­tin­u­ous­ly devel­ops its analy­sis port­fo­lio to pro­vide online mon­i­tor­ing of qual­i­ty para­me­ters, for exam­ple through spec­tro­scop­ic tech­niques. This allows cus­tomers to reduce time to mar­ket and opti­mize their process­es. Cus­tomers in indus­tries such as life sci­ences, chem­i­cal, food & bev­er­age and oil & gas can ben­e­fit the most from Endress + Hauser’s advanced analy­sis portfolio.

Advanced technologies

The Lyon loca­tion com­bines the exper­tise of the firm and its sub­sidiaries Kaiser Opti­cal Sys­tems and Spec­traSen­sors under one roof. The Raman ana­lyz­ers from Kaiser Opti­cal Sys­tems are used to exam­ine the com­po­si­tion and mate­r­i­al prop­er­ties of liq­uids, gas­es and solids and enable the real-time mea­sure­ment of prod­uct char­ac­ter­is­tics. Spec­traSen­sors is a leader in the field of TDLAS tech­nol­o­gy, which can be used to reli­ably mea­sure trace-lev­el con­cen­tra­tions of gases.