NDC Celebrates 10 Years' Combined Excellence

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In 2008, NDC Infrared Engineering, the Europe and USA based manufacturer of measurement and control systems for industry, celebrates 10 years of combined excellence since the merger of NDC Systems and Infrared Engineering.

At the time of the 1998 merger, each company had 30 years’ experience in providing its customers with robust systems designed to help them achieve manufacturing process improvements through dependable measurement and control.  NDC Systems expertise was in nucleonic gauging systems for the extrusion, converting and paper industries, while Infrared Engineering offered world leading, high stability NIR (near infrared) instruments for the foods, paper-converting, plastics, tobacco and other industrial processes.

Capitalizing on the synergistic opportunity resulting from the merger, the company has further developed its two centers of excellence, with the UK site focussing on infrared and now X-Ray sensor development and the US site on scanning, display and control systems for the web industries.
 
Both business units have seen strong growth over the last 10 years not only in Europe and the USA but also in Asia, Latin America and significantly China.
 
The company’s global reach has extended with the establishment of direct sales, service and support operations in China, India, Japan, France, Germany and Italy and its dedicated distributor network now extends to over 50 territories, with specialist representation for both product groups.
 
NDC, as the company is now known, has benefitted from continued investment in product development and applications engineering, often undertaking cooperative projects with its key customers to meet their specific measurement needs. Recent additions include the infrared NW710 for measurements in non-woven textile processing and the XRB300 X-ray gauges for applications in extrusions and converting.
 
Since 2002 the company, responding to clear market desires, has implemented a highly successful program to offer, in addition to nucleonic (Beta and Gamma) sensors, its high performance Series 710 NIR and Mid-IR Sensors. Since the 710 obviates the need for special licensing and safety provisions, the market response has been extremely positive: in areas such as film extrusion and converting, NDC 710 infrared sensors have enjoyed global adoption.
 
The selective infrared technology has allowed complex, multi-layer film structures to be resolved, offering significant savings to users on barrier layer resin usage.  The Ethernet connectivity offered in the NDC Pro.Net and “TDi” scanning and control systems has resulted in much simpler system architecture with the benefits of far lower installation and ownership costs.
 
NDC sees repeat business levels of over 70% which is testimony to the trust its customers place in NDC measurement systems in helping to assure their product quality and competiveness in a global market.  The company’s motto is “The Measure of Quality™” which characterizes the measurable benefits its customers gain from their investment in an NDC product.