Solutions and Services for Industry

Exciting news for companies based in France! The ESRF successfully obtained government approval for the Research Tax Credit ("Crédit d'Impôt Recherche") for 2009, 2010 and 2011.  We applied for, and obtained, its renewal for the following three years until end 2014.  CIR could mean a massive reduction in your research expenditure.  More CIR information

Rayonnement synchrotron à la une dans "l'actualité chimique" - cette revue nationale parle, dans son édition de novembre 2011, du rayonnement synchrotron et comment il peut aider à comprendre le monde de la chimie.  Télécharger la revue

Direct contact to the ESRF's Business Development Office: Contact us

Providing solutions for industry from around the world since 1995

Did you know that the X-ray beams produced by third-generation synchrotron facilities such as the ESRF are amongst the most brilliant and intense available in the world today?  Our industrial services offer you privileged access both to our 40 X-ray beamlines and to our expertise, enabling us to help solve your process problems, reduce your product-to-market times and spectacularly enhance your current R&D programmes.

"More than just X-rays, we put our expertise, in-situ sample environments and our years of experience into your industrial problems"

The application sectors for synchrotron radiation are very broad, covering pharmaceuticals, chemistry, catalysis, cosmetics, food, batteries, nanotechnologies, medicine, advanced materials and non-destructive testing amongst many others. Our wide impact and relevance is demonstrated by the confidence major companies such as GlaxoSmithKline (UK), AstraZeneca (UK & Swe), TOTAL (Fr), Pfizer (UK), Procter & Gamble (UK), Toyota CRDL (Japan), Merck (Ger), Rhodia (Fr), and Unilever (NL) have in the ESRF.

Discover the wide range of experimental techniques that are available, often allowing experiments in real time and under real operating conditions, such as macromolecular crystallography, tomography, diffraction, fluorescence, EXAFS, SAXS, WAXS and infrared microscopy. 

ESRFnews featuring industry

A recent issue of the ESRFnews features a series of articles on bringing together academia and industry, at a moment when the ESRF ramps up the exploitation of its potential for innovation and new products.

http://mag.digitalpc.co.uk/fvx/iop/esrf/1012/

ESRF products and laboratory services

As well as our beamlines, the ESRF has many state-of-the-art services and products with unique laboratories and specialist pieces of equipment available. For example our X-ray optics, multilayer and COFRAC-accredited calibration laboratories, and in-house designed electronic hardware and X-ray detectors.

• Specialised laboratory services
  

• Technology transfer, instrument sales and licensing

10 excellent reasons to use the ESRF

* We are a world reference for industrial and academic use of synchrotron radiation.

* We have over 15 years' experience in providing solutions to industry.

* The Business Development Office (previously Industrial and Commercial Unit or ICU) is your dedicated point of contact, our flexibility is particularly appreciated by our clients.

* Through the BDO, we put you in contact with our highly experienced scientists who are at your disposal to find solutions for your problems.

* Over 40 state-of-the-art beamlines are available for industrial solutions using a wide range of experimental techniques.

* When bringing in the ESRF to help your industrial problems, the intellectual property of your results and discoveries belong solely to you.

* If you can't come to the ESRF, just send us your samples, we can do the data collection for you.  Data analysis is also possible. For MX clients we provide Remote access to the ESRF which brings the power of the synchrotron to your own laboratory or office. 

* Do you need many shifts? Benefit from our sliding scale of prices or become a Best Client.

* Our on-site Guesthouse, a few minutes' walk from the beamlines, provides comfortable rooms at unbeatable rates, a company restaurant with hot meals at lunch and in the evening.

* We have some of the best facilities worldwide, but constantly strive to improve our technology and beamlines.  The ESRF is undertaking an ambitious 10-year Upgrade Programme to refurbish many existing beamlines and to build at least eight new beamlines with unique capabilities.  We are investing almost 180 million euros for the first phase through to 2015.

Our neighbours

Our sister institute, the Institut Laue-Langevin has similar research services for industry with high-intensity neutron beams which give complementary information to our X-ray-based experiments.

• Industrial services at the ILL

Macromolecular crystallography services

The ESRF has probably the best industrial synchrotron services for macromolecular crystallography worldwide. On highly automated and high-throughput beamlines, we offer the following services:

• Mail-in MXpress service with experiments carried out by our highly experienced scientists.

• Buy beam time to perform your own experiments with our local contact support - via remote access from your lab or by coming to the ESRF (see: How to book beamtime).

• Integrated services: we provide complete X-ray crystallographic services from construct design to refined coordinates. We provide an extensive work plan including milestones and deadlines with the client receiving regular reports and updates. Other services are provided through our collaborative partners, including access to MS, crystallisation robots, NMR and more. Please contact us for further information.

 Direct contact to the ESRF's Business Development Office: Contact us