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Our mission
With our products, we want to contribute to preserving resources and achieving climate neutrality.
Our hyperspectral cameras enable our customers, especially machine builders, to achieve very good results when sorting in recycling or during quality assurance in food processing. Our focus is always on the application of our customers.
That is why we provide them with ready-to-use sensor solutions that contain all the necessary hardware and software and directly provide the information necessary for process control. It couldn't be simpler!
Our story
It began in 1993 when the physicist Dr. Hartmut Lucht founded LLA Instruments GmbH in Berlin. He initially developed laser spectroscopy-based measurement systems for application in biomedicine, environmental technology, and the industry in general. The company soon pivoted towards establishing the basics, further developing, and marketing automatic sensor-based sorting systems for plastics. From the onset, the focus of the company was always on the application and to create a perfect technical solution for it.
In the past few years, we have become increasingly known across the globe, especially to machine builders for plastics sorting, as a renowned developer, manufacturer, and supplier of imaging spectral analytical measurement technology and hyperspectral cameras.
With our very fast hyperspectral cameras, our products are market leaders in recycling.
Since 2021, LLA Instruments is being managed by Annett Lucht and David Mory. Dr. Hartmut Lucht remains the owner, but is no longer active in the company.
Our values
The satisfaction of our customers is our top priority.
That is why we develop and manufacture analytical process measurement technology and user-friendly operating software at the highest level. We are committed to contributing to a more sustainable use of our natural resources and to developing sustainable technical solutions.
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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