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Our mission
To offer ready-to-use, turn-key sensor solutions to directly provide the information required for process control.
Our products enable customers, in particular machine builders, to achieve excellent industrial optical sorting results for recycling and quality assurance in food processing and functional materials.
We are committed to contributing to a safer and healthier world through our unique science and technology. We want our products to contribute to resource conservation, climate neutrality and a circular economy.
Our story
Founded in 1993 in Berlin, LLA Instruments GmbH, initially developed laser spectroscopy-based measurement systems for applications in biomedicine, environmental technology, and general industry. The company soon pivoted towards establishing, developing, and marketing automatic sensor-based sorting systems for plastics.
SInce, we have become a renowned developer, manufacturer, and supplier of imaging spectral analytical measurement technology and hyperspectral cameras for sorting applications across the globe. With our very fast hyperspectral cameras, our products are market leaders in recycling.
Our values
Purpose: To become the one-stop shop for industrial sorting in the recycling and food industry.
Collaboration: We offer application development to make it easy for our customers to adapt to specific materials.
Innovation: To find sustainable technical solutions to help protect the environment.
Integrity: Open communication and building trust to encourage successful partnerships.
Customer Focus: We focus on our customers, providing expert advice, to enable our shared success.
Quality: We strive for continuous improvement were quality and safety always take priority
Our possibilities
For most fields of application, we have a dedicated in-house expert with years of experience on our team. For newer applications, too, we have the expertise to find a fitting solution.
Thanks to an in-house conveyor system as part of our technology centre, we can carry out realistic on-location tests of new applications together with our customers. There and at our in-house application laboratories, our measuring systems are available for demonstration at any time.
Our company headquarters in Berlin Adlershof, Germany's most advanced science and technology park, enables us to be continuously engaged in a lively exchange of experience and knowledge with the many other local research institutes and companies.
Our history
| 2021 | Dual leadership in management: Annett Lucht and David Mory |
| 2019 | Launch of the on-line XRF analyser |
| 2017 | Launch of the hyperspectral scanner system ProScan-HSI, KUSTA2.2MSIsens |
| 2016 | Launch of the RGB colour line scan camera uniScanRGB and UV-VIS hyperspectral camera uniSPEC0.9HSI |
| 2015 | New generations of the multiplexed NIR spectrometer KUSTAx.xMPL-24V and ESA4000plus |
| 2014 | Expansion of the company headquarters at Justus-von-Liebig-Strasse 11 in Berlin: new production building for hyperspectral cameras |
| 2013 | Launch of the hyperspectral camera uniSPEC1.9HSI |
| 2012 | Launch of the multispectral camera KUSTA2.2MSI |
| 2010 | Roll-out of the first multispectral camera KUSTA1.7MSI for recycling applications, pioneering the use of multispectral camera technology in recycling; roll-out of the 500th multiplexed system (KUSTAx.xMPL) |
| 2007 | Inauguration of the current company headquarters at Justus-von-Liebig-Strasse 9 in Berlin |
| 2006 | Roll-out of the first ESA 4000 Echelle spectrometer |
| 1999 | Roll-out of the first multiplexed NIR spectrometer KUSTA-MPL for use in plastics recycling |
| 1998 | Roll-out of the first ESA 3000 Echelle spectrometer |
| 1994 | Entry in the commercial register; roll-out of the first NIR spectrometer with a PbS sensor (KUSTA2000); Development of the first Echelle spectrometer for LIBS measurements |
| 1993 | Founding of the company in Berlin as a spin-off of the former Academy of Sciences; roll-out of the first fluorescence spectrometer for use in environmental analysis |
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