September 18, 2007 — The French company FOGALE nanotech, developer of dimensional metrology devices, has opened its first North American office in Los Angeles to forge partnerships with North American universities to develop ideas for innovative sensors, and to improve sales service for the company’s North American clients. Arnauld Dumont is CEO of the new operation.
With expertise in capacitive, inductive, optical, and ultrasonic metrology and a strong scientific background, FOGALE provides standard and customized detection systems to customers in the automotive, defense, aeronautics, and nuclear industries in Europe, the United States, and Asia.
Some examples of the company’s technologies are an intelligent anti-collision device for medical robots, an ultra-high-accuracy alignment for extra-large laboratory machines, and high-temperature blade-tip clearance measurement systems for the aerospace industry. It has also developed active real-time measurement devices for telescopes, and has customized 3-D profilometers for laboratories and the semiconductor industry. It recently introduced the new Biomass+ system for accurately measuring viable cell density for yeast, bacterial, fungal, animal, and plant cells.