About IMS Messsysteme GmbH:
The impressive portfolio of high-precision, perfectly coordinated, and customizable measurement systems is unique in its scope worldwide and plays a key role in optimizing processes, increasing output, reducing scrap rates, and thereby enabling more economical, profitable, and environmentally friendly production.
Today, more than 4,500 IMS non-contact detection systems are an integral part of production facilities worldwide, including hot rolling mills, cold rolling mills, process lines, heavy plate rolling mills, long product rolling mills, tube rolling mills, and metal service centers.
Competences
IMS Messsysteme GmbH, based in Heiligenhaus, and SECOPTA analytics GmbH, based in Teltow, are now combining their expertise. IMS has acquired a stake in SECOPTA analytics GmbH; the transaction took effect on 26 June 2026. Going forward, the new company will operate under the name IMS Secopta GmbH.
IMS Messsysteme GmbH is a globally leading provider of high-precision measuring and inspection systems for the steel, aluminium and non-ferrous metal industries. With this investment, the company is specifically expanding its portfolio in the field of automated material analysis.
SECOPTA analytics GmbH develops and markets analytical solutions based on LIBS technology (laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy). These are used in particular in the metal industry, in the recycling and waste recovery sector, in mining and in the raw materials and glass industries.
Strategic expansion in scrap analysis
The ongoing expansion of electric steel production and the growing importance of scrap recycling are increasing demand for precise electromagnetic, optical and radiometric inspection systems, particularly for sorting scrap and construction waste.
“Precise, early-stage characterisation of scrap is a key prerequisite for stable production processes and the targeted production of alloys. With our investment in SECOPTA analytics GmbH, we are specifically strengthening our technological expertise in this area, expanding our range of capabilities, and opening up new product and market opportunities – both within and beyond the metal industry,” explains Richard Rak, Managing Director of IMS Messsysteme GmbH.
“Fast response times and the highest level of service quality are key success factors for the industrial deployment of modern sensor technology. IMS Messsysteme GmbH’s decades of expertise in the development, production and worldwide deployment of complex sensor systems – combined with its established global service network – gives us the opportunity to support our international customers even more efficiently, quickly and to the highest professional standard in future,” explains Dr. Christian Bohling, Managing Director of SECOPTA analytics GmbH.
IMS Messsysteme GmbH is an internationally active company specializing in industrial measurement technology, with a strong focus on applications for the steel, aluminum, and non-ferrous metals industries. The foundation of the IMS Group was laid with the establishment of the company in 1980.
From its 56,000 m² headquarters in Heiligenhaus, Germany, the IMS Group today coordinates a global network of eight subsidiaries and six joint ventures. More than 600 employees at 29 locations across six continents ensure that IMS measurement systems operate worldwide with the highest levels of precision and availability.
As a global player, IMS offers an impressive range of highly advanced measurement systems. What makes these systems unique is their perfect integration and customization: each system is manufactured mechanically and electrically according to the specific requirements of the customer, ensuring that all relevant measurement tasks are performed with maximum precision and reliability.
More than 4,500 X-ray, isotope, and optical systems are currently in operation at leading steel, aluminum, and non-ferrous metal producers around the world. Each of these systems represents a technology that is shaping the future of industrial measurement.
Since its foundation in 2000, IMS Röntgensysteme GmbH has complemented the IMS product portfolio with its technological expertise and innovative strength. Its core focus is on non-contact, non-destructive, and imaging inspection of a wide variety of materials. Applications can be found in industries such as food processing, electronics, chemicals, metal and plastics processing, medical technology, and security.
Since 2024, the two technology companies, IMS Messsysteme GmbH and IMS Röntgensysteme GmbH, have been listed in the World Market Leader Index under the IMS Group brand as a “World Market Leader Champion (Germany).”
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