history of Technobis
About us
The story of Technobis actually starts some years earlier than the start of the company itself. The first two people at Technobis (Pim Kat and Bram Kruk) worked in 1994 as Researchers at Hoogovens steel plant but it was a hard time and the larger research projects stopped. They were asked to help outside the gate of Hoogovens plant and did four projects in about one year time and all finished successfully. After the last project they started to think about becoming entrepreneurs. The first of April 1996 was the first official day in the new founded company. The building used to be an empty winter storage for caravans with no heating, water, electricity and the work regarded building and supplying machines they developed in their last project, while having a backlog in deliveries of about 50 machines. The company grew to about 9 people and soon they decided to build a new facility in Uitgeest. In 2005 Pim, Bram, Alex and John started a new unit Technobis Fibre Optic Sensing which already proved very promising but it was burning money faster than could be earned at Technobis Mechatronics. Even having the best FBG interrogator in the world did not help much. The turnaround came when ASML asked Technobis to develop an interrogator. This required the drastic technology switch to integrated photonics resulting in a family of chip designs with incredible speed, resolution and multiplexing capacities. The company was growing to around 35 people. In 2014 Technobis had a new facility build in Alkmaar with dedicated vibration isolated labs and office space for 50 employees. They moved over 1st of May 2014 and started Technobis IPPS for packaging optical chips. In January 2015 Technobis Group acquired Avantium Pharmatech which was renamed Technobis Crystallization Systems. Today Technobis Group has over 60 FTE, all with the same mission to combine technologies recognized by many large OEM customers in High-Tech, Medical, Pharmaceutical markets for their unique capabilities.
- Specialties
- fibre technology, design, mechanics, enginereeing, project management, startups, OEM customers, hi-tech, medical, interrogator, photonics, and prototyping