Summary:
A French SME manufactures devices to test materials mechanically and thermally under microscopes. The devices can perform tests at air pressure or under vacuum at low and/or high temperatures and simultaneously doing an observation under microscopes. These scientific instruments are intended for companies and laboratories seeking to have a better understanding of materials and their possible use in their environment. The company is looking for distributors with technical after sales services.
Description:
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.
Type (e.g. company, R&D institution…), field of industry and Role of 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.
Stage of Development:
Already on the market
External code:
BOFR20200715001
