PROTO engineering and manufacturing excellence ensures quality products and service. Proto innovations include the development of an 18-kg portable device, automated residual stress mapping, simultaneous residual stress and retained austenite measurement, field and inline applications, high-speed x-ray diffraction and more.

HUBER Diffraktionstechnik was founded by Robert Huber on May 1, 1950, as a specialist engineering company in Rimsting am Chiemsee. Later become involved in the design and production of X-ray cameras and accessories for X-ray fine structural analysis. The exceptional precision and reliability of the instruments produced by Huber ensured that the name became common in laboratories and research centers around the world.

IMCE n.v. was founded in 1995 by father and son Theo Bollen and Bart Bollen. Both were experienced engineers with a fascination for technique. Non-destructive measurements of elastic properties and internal friction by impulse excitation technique. Since the production of the first ceramic parts, people were 'knocking' on these parts to 'hear' if they were well produced. IMCE transferred this ancient technique into a modern and state of the art measurement device.