Company

Founded in 1984, we develop and produce robust, high-performance sensor solutions for customers from a wide range of industries.

The company increasingly specialized in high-performance optical sensors and fiber optics for applications in extreme industrial conditions such as high temperatures, humidity, pollution, etc.

Consequently, our industry focus is on the paper industry, metal industry, special machine construction and crane construction. Since 1990 we have been increasingly active internationally.

Based in the central region of Upper Austria, we are proud to count companies in more than 25 countries worldwide among our customers, who are supported by representative offices in more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia, North America and Africa.

Milestones in the company's history

1990: Development of fiber optic break detectors, which have since been reliably used in an advanced form in hundreds of paper mills worldwide.

1995: A new fiber optic concept was developed for the tear-off sensors with the so-called CO types, which is characterized by particularly high transmission and robustness.

1997: A sensor system called “crane collision protection sensors” was developed for the Vorarlberg-based Liebherr works to determine the distance between two gantry cranes, which have been cruising the seas on various ships for decades.

1998: The crane collision protection sensors were expanded to include self-monitoring and were used for the first time at the Eternit works in Upper Austria.

1999: Belorusskij metakkurgicheskij zavod was the first hot rolling mill to be fully equipped with fiber optic sensors for object detection in the high-temperature range.

2002: A solution for contactless position detection of the balls in the roulette table was developed for an Upper Austrian slot machine manufacturer, which was used for decades.

2009: The founders and former managing directors retire and the company continues its successful course under new management.

2010: The proven break sensors have been significantly further developed with continuous contamination monitoring and, in conjunction with the latest generation of CO fiber optics and air-flushed booms, have since become the standard for break detection in the open draw inside and outside the dryer group of a paper machine.

2011: SensoWeb "Splice," a high-performance sensor for detecting repulpable adhesive tapes in the flying splice process, was developed at a customer initiative. In the same year, SensoWeb "Edge," a fiber optic sensor system for analog web edge detection in high-temperature environments, was also developed at a customer initiative.

2013: The tr²dent series, a revolutionary new multi-wavelength sensor platform, was introduced. The same year, the first generation of the world's first material-sensitive, fiber-optic sensors – SensoWeb "Felt" – for tear-off detection on dryer fabrics (in so-called Tier 1 dryer groups) was launched on this platform. In the following years, further customer projects in the field of material sensor technology were carried out.

2017: A fiber optic moisture sensor based on tr²dent is presented for the first time for inline moisture measurement in a paper machine. However, this task proved extremely challenging, so after initial installations, it became clear that further research and development was necessary.

2018: A fundamentally revised generation of the material-sensitive tear-off sensors SensoWeb “Felt-V2” was launched, which to date represent the most innovative sensors on the market for this challenging measurement task.

2020/2021: After an exciting construction period in the middle of the first year of the Corona pandemic, the new company building in Lambach, our new competence center for optical sensor technology, was occupied in January 2021.

2022: After intensive further development, a fundamentally improved new generation of fiber optic moisture sensors for use in paper machines – SensoWeb "moist" – was finally launched on the market. Since then, they have already proven themselves in dozens of installations on five continents.

2025: The completely new spectral sensor platform "polyIdent" is finally presented, the result of years of research and development, which is intended to take a significant step towards bringing the potential of SWIR material analysis from the laboratory into inline process control.