NDC appoints director of Customer Care EMEA

NDC Infrared Engineering has chosen Karl Schmid to be director of its Customer Care, EMEA for the Sensors, Systems and Metals divisions. Mr Schmid has more than 25 years of experience in service and engineering, including leadership roles at Voith Paper as manager, Special Services and at Mahlo GmbH & Co.KG as worldwide Service and Spares manager. In his new position, he will handle Customer Care and support throughout the EMEA area for all of NDC’s product lines.

Karl Schmid has 25 years’ experience in service and engineering

NDC has headquarters in Irwindale, California, USA; Maldon, UK and in Alleur, Belgium. It offers an extensive range of non-contact sensors and systems for measurement of moisture, fat, and other constituents in tobacco, food and bulk products, basis weight and thickness in continuous web processes, and thickness, flatness and width in metal sheet goods.

The metals product line includes X-Ray and optical thickness gauges, laser-based flatness and width gauges and a range of XRF sensors to measure coating thickness.

The group's range of measurement technologies for the web industry includes infrared absorption, beta transmission, gamma backscatter, X-ray backscatter and transmission, optical and laser caliper. Applications include film and sheet extrusion, paper, foil and film converting, nonwovens, and rubber sheet manufacture. Products range from fixed-point low-cost devices for QA checks, to complete on-line system solutions for continuous precision measurement and process control.

The group is the world market leader in the design and manufacture of near infrared (NIR) sensors and systems for on-line and off-line analysis and measurement. The NIR product range includes instruments for monitoring fat, moisture and protein content in food; moisture, nicotine and total reducing sugars in tobacco products; film thickness, barrier layers and coat-weight in plastics; paper and board, foils and sheet steel.