30 years AMEPA – a small chronology

Sept. 1984

Founded as SPIN-OFF of the University of Aachen/Germany by Prof. Franz-Rudolf Block, Dr. Edmund Julius and Wolfgang Theissen with the target to deliver measurement technology for the steel industry

1986

First Slag Detectors ESD in Europe

1989

First Slag Detectors in USA and Japan

1994

Foundation of AMEPA AMERICA Inc. in Cleveland

1995

RSD (Residual Steel Detection)

1999

Thermographic Slag Detection TSD

2003

CFM Measurement of Coal Flow Rate at the Blast Furnace

2004

Majority participation in AXEON GmbH Oberhausen

2004

Oil Thickness Measurement OFM and Roughness Measurement SRM

2006

Foundation of AMEPA Shanghai

2007

Construction and moving into the new company building in Aachen-Wuerselen

2009

Open Eye Monitoring SFM

2011

Waviness

2014

AMEPA –  30 years of measurement technology for the steel industry