VEQTER Ltd is a leading-edge spin-out company from the University of Bristol employing unique technology and expertise for the measurement, analysis and management of residual stress in engineering components.  Currently serving many industrial sectors Worldwide, VEQTER is helping to reduce the frequency and duration of downtime that costs some clients more than £1,000,000 per day.

For residual stress measurement we employ industry proven methods and specialise in the Deep-Hole Drilling technique. Our portfolio of proven measurement techniques also includes Incremental Centre-Hole Drilling, Neutron Diffraction, Ring Core, Sachs Boring, Slitting, Synchrotron Diffraction and X-ray Diffraction. Through our experience and extensive knowledge of using these measurement techniques we provide our clients with impartial advice on the optimum use of a wide ranging portfolio of techniques to suit their requirements.

GNR ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTS thanks to its 30 years of experience, design and produces analytical instruments and develops procedures of analysis for various applications, supplies the corresponding laboratory equipment for the procedures, providing training, consulting and Customer support worldwide through its well established sales and post sales network.

G.N.R. Analytical Instruments Group designs and produces Optical Emission Spectrometers (OES) for the measurement of elemental chemical composition of metal alloys and related accessories and sample’s preparation.

G.N.R. Analytical Instruments Group designs and produces Rotate Disc Electrode Optical Emission Spectrometers ( RDE-OES) for the measurement of contaminants, additives and wear metals in lubricants oils, coolants, hydraulic fluids.

G.N.R. Analytical Instruments Group designs and produces x-ray laboratory and portable X Ray Diffraction instruments (XRD) for material structure determination.

StressMap is a commercial business unit at The Open University which provides specialist stress/strain measurement services to industry with focus on Contour Method residual stress measurements

Bruker is a worldwide market leader in providing advanced X-ray and optical emission systems and complete solutions for structure and elemental analysis using X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and crystallographic diffraction techniques.
Our D8 ADVANCE and D8 DISCOVER instruments offer dedicated hardware and software solutions for residual stress determination by means of X-ray diffraction.
They enable measuring normal and shear stress up to the complete stress tensor, and data evaluation using the traditional sin²(psi) method as well as the multi hkl evaluation method.
Thanks to the uniquely modular instrument design other related analysis methods, such as retained austenite determination based on both the traditional RIR and Rietveld method for complex alloys, or advanced texture analysis, are perfectly covered as well

Inel is a French X-ray diffraction company with 40 years of technical expertise, which designs, manufactures and supplies instrumentation. Its equipments are destined for public or private research centers, as well as for industry.

Xsolo, the New Nomadic Stress System

Bring the analyzer to your samples
You know that stress and texture measures are possible for small samples on XRD laboratory instruments (max. 15 x 15 x 2 cm).
Doing the same kind of analysis on complete parts or other very big samples is still possible but typically needs more complex instruments. The systems used are XRD systems fixed on a robot like the Precix robot, but you still have to bring the sample to the instrument place.
Now you will be able to bring the analyzer directly to your sample and measure residual stress and texture in field with the new Inel Xsolo system.

Application fields
Welds control in the field : pipelines, bridges, nuclear reactor facilities...
On-site critical industrial parts control: aerospace, automotive...
Determination of critical failures in damaged important structures
Validation of repaired area as "restored" to original specifications
And even more...

Curtiss-Wright Surface Technologies ("CWST") is the group name for the collective technical services provided by Metal Improvement Company ("MIC") and its affiliate companies, E/M Coating Services, Everlube Products, FW Gartner Thermal Spraying, Parylene Coating Services and IMR Test Labs.
Curtiss-Wright Surface Technologies is a leading provider of outsourced high technology services ('Special Processes") on critical components from aerospace, automotive, power generation, chemical processing and specialty industrial markets. Through a network of over 70 facilities in North America, Europe and Asia, we provide:
> Shot peening
> Laser peening
> Shot peen forming
> Engineered Coatings
> Materials Testing
The services that we offer are designed to enhance the performance and extend the life of critical components operating in demanding environments.

Ever since Pulstec was established our strategy has been for "Research & Development oriented manufacturing" contributing to innovative development within the industrial community. Our personnel have therefore striven to develop their skills keeping up to date with advances in technology, enabling Pulstec to focus on the research and development of products that our customers require.
Pulstec has, like many other high technology sectors companies, experienced periods of growth, enabling our business to expand. Similarly, we have experienced less profitable periods due to less demanding commercial environment. It is however, without doubt, that these less profitable periods require our investors to maintain confidence in Pulstec innovative skills, to overcome these situations and to enable the company to return to a period of business growth. Pulstec is determined to make further innovation, in order to facilitate the application of our employee's skills to achieve a fast return to growth. We will also explore the many new and exciting opportunities to meet the needs of our new and future customers.
We are going back to our origins in order to be essential a company for the development of the society and we kindly ask for everyone's support and cooperation as we are to work as one to overcome this hardship.