Today, Gecko Robotics announces its Series B funding round of $40 million led by Drive Capital's Mark Kvamme. The round was led by Drive Capital with participation from previous investors including Founders Fund, Next47 and Y-Combinator. "We are growing fast solving a critical infrastructure problems that affect our lives, and can even save lives," says Jake [...]
Edmund Optics (EO), a renowned provider of optical components, continuously expands its product offering to reflect market developments and customer needs. New products are added each month to better serve the industry. This release features two recent additions: Near-Infrared (NIR) Precision Aspheric Lenses and TECHSPEC® LS Series Line Scan Lenses. Near-Infrared (NIR) Precision Aspheric Lenses are [...]
By now, most of us are aware of the recent industrial accident that happened on the East Coast at a now-closed refinery. Thousands of pounds of deadly hydrofluoric acid escaped into the atmosphere following a massive blast, according to a recently released federal report. What could have caused the explosions? According to the U.S. Chemical Safety [...]
Simcoa Operations is an Australian-based company committed to producing the world's highest quality silicon that is used in many of the products that make our modern lives easier. The company’s manufacturing facility gets its power from the Australian grid through two power transformers (rated at 132/22/11 kV). How serious is the problem? Simcoa Operations sought the [...]
Infrasense recently completed various non-destructive tests on a 1000-ft long bridge carrying Interstate-90 near Alberton, Montana. One of the testing methods used was ground penetrating radar (GPR), which provides maps of rebar depth and rebar level deterioration. Another method, infrared thermography (IR), was used in conjunction with a high-resolution video feed to quantify and map subsurface [...]
MHT Access Services Inc. (MHT), based in Houston, provides innovative solutions for industrial inspection, maintenance and repair. To create added value and synergy among these distinct services, MHT utilizes its own multiskilled rope access teams. This approach positions MHT as a leader among service providers. MHT's multiskilled rope access teams recently came into play when the [...]
With a wide variety of industries relying on video borescopes for their remote visual inspections (RVI) and nondestructive testing (NDT) needs, ViewTech Borescopes has announced the addition of several new clients that utilize their VJ-3 Articulating Video Borescope. With a strong emphasis being placed on RVI and NDT throughout Oil & Gas, Power Generation, Aviation, Automotive [...]
ATH NDT Ltd, a leading UK NDT service and equipment provides, serving all areas of the non-destructive testing industry, are now renowned throughout the industry for their impressive collection of high quality fluorescent penetrant lines – offering a vast array of competitively priced stock lines to meet the budges of almost all companies, including bespoke fluorescent [...]
Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies [NYSE:TDY] company and global leader in machine vision technology, is pleased to announce the availability of its newest charge-domain CMOS TDI camera – the Linea HS 16k Multifield TDI camera. Multifield imaging allows end-users to capture multiple images e.g. brightfield, darkfield, and backlit images simultaneously in a single scan. Based on [...]
The Canadian Institute for Non-destructive Evaluation (CINDE) is pleased to announce the NDT in Canada 2020 Conference, held at Caesars Windsor May 5-7, 2020. The theme for this conference is Canada's NDT Vision - Inspection Excellence. This conference brings a number of opportunities to discuss: the end of a decade of amazing NDT innovation, the exciting [...]