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Belgian Hammer-IMS unveils innovative industrial machinery during Grand Opening in Spartanburg county, South Carolina

Spartanburg, SC - Press release for September 15, 2023 - 

Hammer-IMS, an innovative force in the field of contactless measuring and vision systems for industrial applications, celebrates a momentous occasion - the official grand opening of its offices in Spartanburg County, SC. The event, which took place on Wednesday September 13^th marked a significant milestone in the company's journey towards providing cutting-edge solutions to revolutionize the manufacturing industry. Hammer-IMS, originally a Belgian tech-start-up company, founded in 2016, has now officially crossed the Atlantic Ocean and is currently in search for people to start-up its American team.

Grand Opening of Hammer-IMS Inc. will take place next week, on September 13th, 3:45 pm

Save the date: The Grand Opening of Hammer-IMS Inc. will take place next week, on September 13th starting at 3:45 pm.

Hammer-IMS is expanding to America

Did you know that Hammer-IMS is expanding to America?

Mark your calendars for September 13th and stay updated on more details on our Grand Opening.

Sustainable Thickness & Basis Weight Measurement for Battery Film Production

Hammer-IMS is proud to showcase its Marveloc-CURTAIN-MINI at the 13th European Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (AABC 2023) with a combination of U-Ray and L-Ray sensors that together perform thickness and basis weight measurements of battery film electrode coating and cell calendering stages.

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Celebrating a Strong Partnership: Thank You, Beckhoff!

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We wanted to take a moment to celebrate our long-time partner and supplier, Beckhoff, by sharing a crate of our belgian brewed beer!

Sustainable Inline Quality Control Dual Scanning System for Needle Punched Nonwoven Production Lines

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Hammer-IMS, an industry-leading innovator in quality control solutions, showcases groundbreaking inline quality control dual scanning system at the Heimbach Group's largest plant for paper machine clothing in Duren, Germany. This state-of-the-art scanning system is set to revolutionize the needle-punched nonwoven industry, ensuring unparalleled production line efficiency, consistent product quality, and operator safety. 

Hammer-IMS proudly announces its operations in Spartanburg County, USA

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Hammer-IMS is thrilled to announce its new operations in Spartanburg County, USA, as it expands its global presence. The company has established itself at the Spark Center SC's soft-landing space, marking a significant milestone in its growth and international expansion.

2D Scanner for 100% Inspection & Measurement of Basis-Weights

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Discover the accuracy and precision of Hammer-IMS' 2D Scanner Demo Machine and its exceptional performance at various industry fairs. Visitors at ITMA Milan 2023 were able to experience firsthand the cutting-edge technology that has revolutionized quality control processes across multiple sectors. The revolutionary 2D-scanner is designed for unparalleled 100% inspection and measurement of basis-weights.

Hammer-IMS at ITMA 2023!

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We're thrilled to announce our presence at ITMA 2023, the world's largest textile machinery exhibition, happening right here in Milan.

As a leading innovator in measurement solutions for the textile industry, we're eager to showcase our latest cutting-edge technologies and engage with industry professionals.

Join us at Booth H10-A209! See you at ITMA.

New measuring system installation in Groz-Beckert's Technical Center Felting

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It brings us great joy to see our joined project with Groz-Beckert featured in their newsletter. Would you also like to be able to benefit from Hammer's unique online measuring solution? Visit us at ITMA 2023.

Hammer-IMS and Vandewiele complete structural collaboration for coating quality in carpet production

Bilateral international agreement signed for coating grammage improvement in finishing lines for woven, tufted and needle-punched carpets and artificial grass.

Vandewiele's daughter company Bejimac, specialist in textile finishing machines, established a structural collaboration with Hammer-IMS on quality control of latex coating. This agreement fits in the shared vision of Vandewiele, Bejimac and Hammer-IMS to digitalize the finishing lines for carpets in which accurate, adaptive measurement plays an essential role. Hammer-IMS dedicatedly integrates its non-nuclear technology for measuring coating grammage into Vandewiele-Bejimac finishing lines. Thanks to the real-time measurement and automatic system adaptation of these smart systems, carpet manufacturers maintain highest product quality while reducing the usage and scrap of expensive latex material. The collaboration agreement stipulates that Vandewiele sells and distributes its Hammer-IMS enabled finishing lines. This resellership covers the entire world, except EU, the United Kingdom, Norway and Switzerland.

Hammer-IMS at ITMA 2023

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Discover the future of quality control in textiles at ITMA 2023 with Hammer-IMS. Our advanced measurement systems, including the revolutionary Hammer-IMS M-Ray technology, offer unparalleled accuracy and speed. Join us to explore limitless possibilities, connect with industry experts, and forge valuable partnerships. Unlock excellence, efficiency, and sustainability in your textile manufacturing processes with Hammer-IMS's systems. See you at ITMA 2023!

Kreemers Metaalwerken in the picture as Hammer-IMS’s valuable metal-construction partner

Fruitful collaboration with metalworking company in Hasselt results in robust and accurate mechanical structures with sleek yellow finishing for a worldwide export market

Index 2023 at Geneva

This week our colleagues will be present at the leading non-woven exhibition in Geneva, Switzerland which takes place from the 18th until the 21th of April 2023.

They have the chance to meet existing customers, suppliers and new prospectives in real life, the perfect chance to showcase our quality measurement systems that appeal to a variety of industries like automotive, packaging, hygiene and medicine, and many more.

Minister-President of the Flemish Government Jan Jambon at our booth in Hannover Messe

Minister-President of the Flemish Government Jan Jambon was very interested in what our colleague Tom Soeffers had to say about our latest developments.

We are expecting you!

We are expecting you at our booth at Index. So contact us for your free customer voucher!

You can find us in Hall 1 - Booth 1480. We are looking forward to meet you!

Thickness and grammage measurement and feedback in action at Toiltech

Hammer-IMS installed an inline multi-sensor quality control machine at Toiltech in France. Toiltech is specialized in manufacturing technical and industrial textiles. The project has been set up in collaboration with Erhardt+Leimer France, which represents Hammer-IMS in France.

Abriso-Jiffy pioneers inline quality monitoring system from Hammer-IMS based on radio waves

Abriso-Jiffy is a pioneer in producing in an environmentally friendly way with an inline quality control system from Hammer-IMS.
Read their Testimonial here

Three young graduates joining Hammer-IMS

Maarten De Groof, Tom Soeffers and Jordi Veraghtert came on-board last year. Their recruitments fit in the development and production scale up of Hammer-IMS. All three of them previously executed an internship as part of their technical bachelor education program.

Press release: Hammer-IMS raises its capital by 2.5 million euros via Invest for Jobs, LRM and Gemma Frisius Fund

PRESS RELEASE of 12 JANUARY 2023

Capital increase for Limburg-based manufacturer of cutting edge measuring technology accelerates its international expansion while at the same time strengthening anchoring and employment in Belgium

Read our interesting article in the Global Gypsum Magazine

Read our interesting article about In-line measurement of Insulation panels in the January edition of the Global Gypsum Magazine by our Technical Manager Tom Redant.

Hammer-IMS talks at the Global Insulation Conference and Exhibition 2022 in Portugal this week

Hammer-IMS at K-Show 2022

Join us from 19 to 26 October at the K-Show 2022 - Hall 11/H75  

Hammer-IMS - "One stop-shop Quality & Process control"

Inline quality and automatic die control at ThermHex Waben

ThermHex Waben is using a non-nuclear and non-radioactive quality control machine of Hammer-IMS. The three-sensor inline scanning system measures the grammage of thermoplastic composite honeycomb panels and polypropylene honeycomb cores. In addition, the system with high measurement gap automatically adjusts the production's extrusion die to compensate for grammage variations. The innovative Hammer-IMS machine controls the production process better and eliminates human-related errors in the products of ThermHex Waben.

We are moving!

Of course ... we are always moving with our new technology. But this time we are moving our HQ offices!

Max Bertram joined Hammer-IMS as sales & business developer

As of January 2022, Max Bertram joined Hammer-IMS as sales & business developer. It looks like Max thinks internationally and has experienced different cultures. Here is a brief Q&A to get to know Max a little bit better.

Preparing for event lineup across Europe in Fall and Winter

In the coming Fall and Winter months, Hammer-IMS will exhibit and/or participate in four events across Europe: Hofer Vliesstofftage in Hof (D), International Textile Coating & Lamination Congress in Ghent (B), K-Messe in Düsseldorf, and Global Insulation Conference & Exhibition in Estoril (P). Hammer-IMS will show a number of quality control solutions integrating plenty of innovations that provide instant feedback to manage and optimize your in-line production.

Hammer-IMS capitalizes on machine vision and artificial intelligence as an additional eye in quality control

Hammer-IMS makes progress in machine vision and artificial intelligence as an additional eye in quality control of textiles, plastics and other inline produced products. Recently, Hammer-IMS engineers, in collaboration with the PXL Electronics and ICT campus in Hasselt (Toon Sterckx), developed camera-assisted defect detection based on machine learning. This feature will be a key part in the newest generation of Hammer-IMS’s Edge-Vision-4.0-CURTAIN products. The feature distinguishes defects and classifies these into multiple defect categories. The robust AI-based feature for inline quality control will soon be available, delivering state-of-the-art visual inspection.

2022 Winter & Spring exhibitions line-up

After INDEX in Geneva last November, Hammer-IMS resumed its exhibition tour across Germany in Winter & Spring 2022. Many people came and visited us to watch one of our non-nuclear inline thickness and basis weight measuring systems in action! For example, the sleek and slim C-frame based system proves to be ideal for quality control of foils and films as well as coatings, paper, fabrics, textiles and nonwovens.

Watch the testimonial video on Vetex in Belgium, a producer of medical laminate

The two-head M-Ray measuring system of Hammer-IMS ensures continuous grammage monitoring. In line with its sustainable corporate policy, Vetex is moving away from a radioactive source to a more sustainable technology. This installation is the result of a constructive collaboration between Le Clair & Meert, Vetex and Hammer-IMS.

Great exhibit at INDEX Nonwovens expo in Geneva

We happily returned from the international INDEX Nonwovens expo in Geneva, Switzerland. After exhibiting in China last June, we demonstrated our sustainable measuring and machine vision solutions. Visitors watched various demos that nicely illustrate our one-stop-shop for safeguarding qualitative manufacturing. It was great to see some of you again in person and discuss your specific quality control applications

Technologietelg Hammer-IMS stoomt stagestudenten klaar om multidisciplinair te excelleren op de arbeidsmarkt

'Hammer-IMS Internship Fellow'-oorkonde voor pas afgestudeerde studenten zet nieuwe toon op Vlaamse arbeidsmarkt. Wanneer Hammer-IMS in 2016 neerstreek op de Corda technologiecampus in Hasselt, hadden oprichters Noël Deferm en Tom Redant geen vermoeden dat ze 5 jaar later maandelijks een grote gele machine zouden verschepen naar alle uithoeken van de wereld. “Onze felgele kleur is ons handelsmerk”, luidt het bij Hammer-IMS. “De voorbije jaren hebben we ons bedrijf zien evolueren van het ontwikkelen van één technische component naar complete volwaardige machines. Grote internationale textiel- en kunststofgroepen bekijken onze producten met argusogen en verkiezen onze machines vaak boven die van Duitse gevestigde bedrijven. Onze cocktail van technologische passie en met beide voeten in de markt staan is essentieel om een markt binnen te dringen en ons aandeel hierin te vergroten. We willen dit graag overbrengen aan nieuwe jonge professionals.”

Joost Poelmans joins Hammer-IMS to push M-Ray and machine vision technologies

A few months ago Joost Poelmans joined the Hammer-IMS team as R&D engineer. Say hello to Joost who studied engineering and collaborates on pushing the non-nuclear M-Ray weight and thickness measuring technology. He also introduces intelligent machine vision to further increase the quality control experience for plastic, textile and nonwoven manufacturers.

First-time exhibit on ITMA Asia expo in Shanghai

For the first time, Hammer-IMS exhibits on the ITMA ASIA expo in Shanghai, China. This milestone event is China's most important textile event. "We are here to further extend our geographical reach and explore the huge Chinese market," says Tom Redant, CTO of Hammer-IMS. "We were able to scale geographically thanks to our non-nuclear M-Ray based systems for thickness and grammage measurement. Just recently, Hammer-IMS was awarded the VOKA Limburg export prize in Belgium. “We were able to scale geographically thanks to our non-nuclear M-Ray based systems for thickness and grammage measurement."

Cool internships at Hammer-IMS!

Read and watch the testimonial of one of our latest student interns. Are you a maker? apply: internships@hammer-ims.com

Spring 2021 brings new innovations

Over the last months we have been working on enhancing our products with advanced machine-vision techniques and abilities for remote control by means of an own Android-app. Check out the videos.

New 2021 Marveloc-CURTAIN machine by Hammer-IMS

Hammer-IMS wins the 'Young Export Potential' prize of VOKA Limburg, the Flemish network of companies

VOKA Limburg, a provincial section of the Flemish network of companies, awarded Hammer-IMS the 'Young Export Potential' prize. Hammer-IMS wins the prize in the category of promising companies, which resolutely opt for export to drive business growth.

Hammer-IMS M-Ray OEM Module

Here's the OEM module of Hammer-IMS, ready to integrate into a variety of applications. It contains a 'millimeter wave' based sensor for material characterization as well as for distance measurements, vibration analysis and general detection cases. The compact module is packaged as a rugged, stainless steel box. It's rock solid and water resistant in order to operate on a 24/7 basis and to withstand harsh industrial environments. The OEM module comes with embedded software and API description for easy integration.

Hammer-IMS story published in GeniaaL magazine of University of Leuven (Dutch language)

Aan het thema ‘ondernemen’ wordt binnen de Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen van KU Leuven veel aandacht besteed. Een voorbeeld hiervan is het spin-off bedrijf Hammer-IMS, die de kennis van mm-waveschakelingen op industriële applicaties toepast. De krachtige multisensor-systemen geven fabrikanten van fabrics, plastics en nonwovens een heldere kijk op de kwaliteit van hun product. Deze innovatieve oplossingen vormen een alternatief voor bestaande nucleaire en radioactieve systemen in de markt.

Students satisfied with internship while social distancing

This month three students, Tibo Meynckens, Stef Lenaerts and Yannick Geukens, finished their internships with us at Hammer-IMS.

Building momentum towards Hammer-IMS 2021 Expo Tour

Due to the covid-19 pandemic, most international expos of 2020 are canceled or postponed. Therefore, we are setting up a new lineup of events for 2021 to be able to meet you in person and discuss your specific QC applications.

6 reasons to prefer M-Ray thickness & basis-weight quality control over nuclear & X-Ray systems

Our disruptive M-Ray technology is pure electronic by nature. This means that our non-nuclear measuring solutions are harmless for people and the environment. Completely safe for operators...