Microtec

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Microtec GmbH Srl
legal form Società a responsabilità limitata
founding 1980
Seat Brixen ItalyItalyItaly 
management Federico Giudiceandrea
Number of employees about 160
sales approx. 33.9 million euros
Branch Apparatus construction
Website www.microtec.eu
Status: 2016

The Microtec GmbH Srl (proper spelling MiCROTEC ) is a manufacturer of biometric analysis systems primarily for fruit and timber industry based in South Tyrol Brixen . The company is the world market leader in systems for optical recognition of wood properties .

history

On March 20, 1980, the physicist Paul Durst, Hansjörg Thaler and the electrical engineer Federico Giudiceandrea founded Microtec Srl in three offices of the Thaler sawmill in Brixen, Italy. Microtec exhibited its microprocessor- based technology at the Interbimal in Milan in May and received the first order from Damiani for a board measurement system for stacking control. In the years that followed, Microtec also developed systems for color recognition and weight measurement of fruit and, on behalf of Prinoth, the world's first drive-by-wire steering column for tracked vehicles . After the death of Paul Durst and the departure of Hansjörg Thaler, who took over a sawmill in Austria , the company was strategically realigned from 1984 with the focus on the recognition of wood properties. The collaboration agreed in 1983 with the Austrian manufacturer of machines for sawmills, Springer Maschinenfabrik AG, was further expanded. In 1985 Microtec developed its own system for 3-D laser triangulation and in 1986 its first automated sorting.

In 1990 Microtec moved to its current location in its own, newly built company building. The number of employees grew from 15 to 50 in 1992. In the following years, Microtec developed a multi-sensor scanner, which was marketed under the name Goldeneye from 1995 onwards . In 1996 Springer took over a strategic stake in Microtec.

The spin-off SeeLab emerged from a development project on the subject of image processing by Professors Ruggero Frezza and Piero Perona at the University of Padua , in which Microtec took a majority stake in 1998. This resulted in Biovision Venezia Srl . based in Mestre near Venice . The Austrian subsidiary Microtec Industrieautomation GmbH in Linz under the leadership of Karin Rathbauer resulted from the sawmill department of the Keba company , which was taken over in 1999 . In 2001 Microtec expanded its location in Linz and founded TTControl GmbH in a joint venture with Vienna-based TTTech Computertechnik AG, based in Brixen, for the development and sale of a new electronic control system for special vehicles. On August 30, 2002, Microtec took over the Scantec machine wood sorting branch from GreCon in Alfeld, Lower Saxony .

In the Holzabsatzfonds sponsored Bonn research project at the Forest Research Institute of Baden-Wuerttemberg , the detection and measurement of tree ring width of spruce logs sections with a 2-plane measurement X-ray scanner with Microtec was developed in mid-2003 in extensive tests of the department forest use. The aim of the project was to standardize the tree ring width measurement as part of the factory survey (framework agreement for the factory survey of logs) and the use of additional value creation potential in the sawmill.

In 2004, Microtec launched the Discan, a finished, pre-calibrated 3D measuring module. This was followed by the presentations of the ID Scan 2005 tracker and the Logeye 2007 scanner .

By 2008, Microtec developed the CT Log, the world's first computer tomograph for industry, the prototype of which was put into operation on June 14, 2008 at the Forestry Research and Testing Institute in Baden-Württemberg for the examination of logs . In the years that followed, possible applications were examined and evaluation methods developed in various research projects together with the FVA Baden-Württemberg and the Technical University of Luleå . At the same time, Federico Giudiceandrea and Enrico Ursella at Microtec, together with Alexander Katsevich from the University of Central Florida, developed an algorithm (Katsevich algorithm) as well as the software for the automatic and industrial evaluation of the CT data in real time.

On July 3, 2008, Microtec Industries North America Inc. was founded in Salmon Arm, Canada, as the first subsidiary in North America . In the following year, sales of a newly developed compact system for optical and structural quality detection began under the product name Goldeneye and the newly developed high-performance CMOS sensor Crometic was introduced. In 2011 Microtec presented the CT Log to the world at LIGNA in Hanover. The first two plants were at the Idaho Forest Group in Lewiston, USA and in 2014 to autumn wood industry Torgau installed

Between 2012 and 2014, the company was in charge of a research project funded by the European Union with € 3 million to develop an automated wood patching system. (Hol-I-Wood PR) The Technical University of Luleå, the Technical University of Munich and the Technical University of Vienna were also involved . In addition, between 2013 and 2015 Microtec was involved in the WoodSonics research project funded with € 1.1 million .

In 2015 Microtec took over the Swedish competitor WoodEye AB in Linköping .

Companies

Microtec GmbH Srl is a medium-sized manufacturer of optoelectronic measuring and analysis systems, especially for fruit and wood . With various subsidiaries in Europe and North America, the company develops, produces and sells industrial color, infrared, laser and X-ray scanners , laser interferometers , computer tomographs, as well as systems for radio wave analysis and high-resolution image processing. Microtec is the world market leader for X-ray scanners and computer tomographs for analyzing logs and sawn timber and, with various world innovations, also the technology leader . The export quota is over 95%. The main sales markets are Europe, Russia, Oceania, South Africa, North and South America. According to the company's own information, there are more than 2000 Microtec systems in operation for quality analysis of wood.

Corporate structure

Springer Beteiligungsgesellschaft holds 70% of the company shares in Microtec GmbH Srl, the rest is privately owned by Federico Giudiceandrea. The entire company includes the following subsidiaries and locations:

  • Springer Microtec Inc, Vancouver
  • WoodEye AB, Linkoping
  • Cind AB, Linkoping

Innovations

In the modern wood processing industry , automation and maximizing the yield play a central role in reducing costs and increasing the quality of the products. The natural material wood in particular is subject to strong biological fluctuations which cannot be perceived by external visual inspections. With precise knowledge of the internal properties of the raw material before the cut, considerable savings and optimization can be achieved. Various types of scanners are used here, which record the raw material and the like. a. Evaluate properties, inclusions, growth defects, color, moisture and grain and provide data for the optimal cut or further processing. Such a system can increase the earnings value by at least 10%. With around 50 patents , various world novelties and well-known awards, Microtec is a leader here.

  • 1995 Goldeneye : The world's first multi-sensor scanner with infrared, X-ray and 3D reconstruction. The fastest Goldeneye scanners ever built in Australia operate at up to 800 m / min.
  • 2004 Discan : Pre-calibrated 3D measuring module.
  • 2005 ID Scan : Tracker recognizes wooden workpieces based on their grain.
  • 2007 Logeye : 3D, X-ray and color scanner for logs
  • 2008 CT Log : The world's first computer tomograph for logs up to 180 m / min.
  • 2016 Hol-I-Wood PR : Innovative wood patching system for replacing imperfections in veneer and glued laminated timber . A prototype is in operation at Lip Opazne Plosce Bohinj in Slovenia.

Awards

  • 2009 iF Design Award
  • 2013 Schweighofer Prize endowed with € 100,000.
  • 2014 Holzkurier award for wood supplier of the year
  • 2014 ADI Design Index Award
  • 2015 iF Design Award
  • 2016 Marcus Wallenberg Prize of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation endowed with 2 million SEK
  • 2016 National Innovation Prize Imprese per Innovazione - Andrea Pininfarina from Confindustria

Trivia

  • In memory of Paul Durst, young scientists at the University of Padua are honored annually with the Paul Durst Award for special merits in research in the field of bioengineering .

Web links

Individual evidence

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