Pamas

What Pamas does

PAMAS Partikelmess- und Analysesysteme GmbH is a privately held German manufacturer of laser-based liquid particle counters, founded in 1992 and headquartered in Rutesheim, Germany. The company develops, manufactures, distributes, and services precision optical instruments that measure solid particulate contamination in liquids and monitor filter efficiency, with its proprietary optical sensors produced in-house at its German plant and supported by a dedicated R&D department. Its product portfolio spans portable instruments (S40 and S4031 series, including ruggedized GO variants for harsh environments and water-glycol/wg variants), online instruments (S50, S50DP, S50P Fuel, OLS4031, OLS50P, WaterViewer) for permanent condition monitoring, and laboratory instruments (SBSS, SVSS, S70 with integrated clean box/HEPA) for controlled batch and small-volume measurement. Configurable HCB-LD sensors and a software suite (Download Software, PCT, PMA, POV, USP) round out the offering, with the USP software qualified to 21 CFR Part 11 and the major USP/EP/BP/JP/KP/IPC pharmacopoeias.

The business sells B2B into specialized industrial verticals — hydraulic and lubricating oil, fuel (including aviation jet fuel under IP 577 and DEF STAN 91-091), pharmaceutical fluids, water (drinking, process, waste), industrial cleaning solvents, emulsions and dark fluids, water-based hydraulic fluids, and aviation hydraulic fluids — serving customers in oil & gas, industry and mobile hydraulics, automotive, power generation, filter manufacturers, aerospace, military, component cleanliness, chemical, and test/research. Revenue is generated through three streams: hardware sales of particle counters and sensors, software sales (including the recurring/compliance-licensed USP package), and service/maintenance for installed instruments. Pricing is quote-based given custom configuration, and the company goes to market via enterprise field sales from headquarters and a global distribution network covering Europe, America, Africa, Asia, and Australia, supported by a multilingual website (DE/EN/ES/PT/FR) and technical publications in seven languages.

Operationally, PAMAS is certified to ISO 9001 by TÜV, and its regulated product lines carry sector-specific qualifications (21 CFR Part 11, USP/EP/BP/JP/KP/IPC, IP 577, DEF STAN 91-091). The company is independently owned with no disclosed institutional investors, parent company, or funding rounds in the available data, and the management team is not publicly detailed in the source material. With 101–250 employees and over three decades of continuous operation, PAMAS presents as a mature Mittelstand instrumentation specialist whose growth has been driven by incremental product breadth and regulatory qualification rather than by external capital or M&A.

Name

Pamas

Legal name

PAMAS Partikelmess- und Analysesysteme GmbH

Website

https://pamas.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

PAMAS Partikelmess- und Analysesysteme GmbH, founded in 1992 in Rutesheim, Germany, manufactures laser particle counters and proprietary optical sensors that measure solid particulate contamination in liquids. The privately held firm sells portable, online, and laboratory instruments plus compliance software to industrial customers in hydraulics, pharma, fuel, water, and aerospace worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Rutesheim

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Particle Counter Hardware Sales: PAMAS develops, manufactures, and distributes laser particle counters. Revenue is generated through the sale of particle counting instruments including portable, online, and laboratory instruments. Products are sold directly to industrial customers across various sectors.
2. Software Products: PAMAS offers software products including PAMAS Download Software, PAMAS PCT, PAMAS PMA, PAMAS POV, and PAMAS USP. Software supports particle analysis and is compliant with pharmaceutical regulations (21 CFR Part 11).
3. Service and Support: The company provides service offerings for particle counters including maintenance, calibration, and technical support for installed instruments.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

PAMAS develops, manufactures, distributes and services laser particle counters that measure solid particulate contamination in liquids such as hydraulic and lubricating oil, fuel, pharmaceutical fluids and water. It builds its own optical sensors in Germany and complements the hardware with data-management and compliance software.

Product overview

PAMAS (Partikelmess- und Analysesysteme GmbH) is a German company founded in 1992 that develops, manufactures, distributes, and services laser particle counters for measuring particulate contamination in liquids. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of optical particle counting instruments organized by application: portable instruments (S40, S40 GO, S4031 series) for on-site batch and online sampling; laboratory instruments (SBSS, SVSS, S70) for controlled measurement environments; online instruments (S50, S50DP, S50P, OLS series) for permanent condition monitoring; and specialized sensors (HCB-LD series) with configurable orifice sizes for different contamination levels. The product line serves diverse fluid types including hydraulic and lubricating oils, water, pharmaceutical fluids, fuels, industrial cleaning solvents, emulsions, and aviation hydraulic fluids, across industries such as oil and gas, aerospace, automotive, pharmaceutical, power generation, and water treatment. PAMAS complements its hardware with a suite of software products (Download Software, PCT, PMA, POV, USP) for data management and compliance with pharmaceutical standards. The highly sophisticated optical sensors are manufactured at the company's plant in Germany, and PAMAS maintains market leadership for high-quality liquid particle counting systems.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• PAMAS S40: Portable particle counter product series for hydraulic and lubricating oil and fuel analysis
• PAMAS S50
• PAMAS SBSS
• PAMAS SVSS
• PAMAS WaterViewer
• PAMAS HCB-LD-50/50
• PAMAS USP

Products and services

• PAMAS S40 Portable particle counter for on-site analysis of hydraulic and lubricating oil and fuel, used by industrial maintenance and condition-monitoring teams.
• PAMAS S40 GO Portable oil particle counter designed for use in harsh field environments.
• PAMAS S40 AVTUR Portable particle counter for Jetfuel analysis compliant with IP 577 and DEF STAN 91-091 standards, for aviation fuel testing.
• PAMAS S40 GO AVTUR Portable particle counter for Jetfuel analysis in harsh environments.
• PAMAS S4031 Portable particle counter with up to 32 size channels for detailed particle analysis.
• PAMAS S4031 GO Portable 32-channel particle counter for use in harsh environments.
• PAMAS S4031 WG Portable particle counter for water-based hydraulic fluids (Water-Glycol).
• PAMAS S4031 GO WG Portable particle counter for water-based hydraulic fluids (Water-Glycol) for use in harsh environments.
• PAMAS FastPatch 2 GO Portable particle counter for field use.
• PAMAS S50 Automatic particle counter for online sampling and permanent condition monitoring.
• PAMAS S50DP Online particle counter with integrated dilution system for fuel containing free water, preventing false measurements.
• PAMAS S50P Fuel Online particle counter for permanent condition monitoring of liquid fuel.
• PAMAS 4132 Online particle counter for filter test rigs, used by filter manufacturers and test centers.
• PAMAS OLS4031 Online particle counter with 32 size channels for detailed contamination monitoring.
• PAMAS OLS50P Online particle counter with constant flow rate for water analysis.
• PAMAS WaterViewer Online particle counter for condition monitoring of drinking water, process water and waste water.
• PAMAS FSA-2002 Particle counter for floc size analysis in water applications.
• PAMAS SBSS Versatile laboratory particle analysing system with integrated pressure container for high viscous liquids; 21 CFR Part 11 compliant.
• PAMAS SBSS WG Laboratory particle analysing system variant for water-glycol fluids.
• PAMAS SVSS Small Volume Syringe System for analysing low viscous fluids including infusion solutions, parenterals, pharmaceutical suspensions and intravenous or ophthalmic liquids; 21 CFR Part 11 compliant.
• PAMAS S70 Particle counting system with integrated clean box and optional HEPA filter for pharmaceutical fluids.
• PAMAS AS3 Autosampling system with tray for automatic batch analysis of oil samples.
• PAMAS HCB-LD-50/50 Laser particle sensor with a 500 µm x 500 µm orifice for hydraulic oil analysis, handling high particle concentrations.
• PAMAS HCB-LD-25/25 Laser particle sensor with a smaller orifice for particularly contaminated hydraulic oil applications.
• PAMAS Download Software Software for data download and management from PAMAS particle counters.
• PAMAS PCT Software product for particle counting analysis.
• PAMAS PMA Software product for particle measurement analysis.
• PAMAS POV Software product for particle analysis.
• PAMAS USP Pharmaceutical-compliance software fulfilling 21 CFR Part 11 and USP, EP, BP, JP, KP and IPC pharmacopoeia requirements.
• Service and Support Maintenance, calibration and technical support for installed PAMAS particle counting instruments.

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Hach (Danaher): Danaher-owned water quality analysis specialist. Overlaps with PAMAS WaterViewer in drinking/process/waste water applications but addresses a much broader water-testing market with electrochemistry and wet-chemistry methods.
• Endress+Hauser: German-based global leader in industrial process instrumentation including flow, turbidity, and liquid analysis. Comparable German Mittelstand background and customer overlap in power, water, and process industries where PAMAS particle counters are deployed.
• Beckman Coulter Life Sciences (Danaher): Division of Danaher providing analytical instruments including liquid particle counters for pharma, biotech, and clinical labs. Competes with PAMAS in pharma QC but operates as part of a much broader life-science instrumentation portfolio.

Direct peers

• Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions: Specialist in particle counters for cleanroom, pharmaceutical, and semiconductor environments. Overlaps with PAMAS in liquid particle counting and shares the pharma/QC qualification-driven sales motion.
• Malvern Panalytical: Spectris-owned leader in particle characterization and size analysis. Competes with PAMAS in liquid and powder particle measurement for pharma, materials, and industrial QC, and offers overlapping laser-diffraction and imaging-based instrumentation.
• Spectro Scientific: Provider of oil and lubricant condition-monitoring instruments including particle counters and wear-debris analyzers. Directly comparable to PAMAS's hydraulic and lubricating-oil product line for predictive maintenance.
• Particle Measuring Systems: A Spectris-owned specialist in particle counters for cleanroom air and liquids, including pharmaceutical and semiconductor applications. Directly competes with PAMAS in liquid particle counting and shares similar regulatory-driven go-to-market in pharma.
• RION Co., Ltd. Japanese instrumentation company producing liquid and airborne particle counters. Competes head-to-head with PAMAS in hydraulic-oil, fuel, and water applications, particularly across Asian markets.
• TSI Incorporated: US-based manufacturer of particle counters and aerosol/flow instrumentation. Directly competes with PAMAS in liquid and airborne particle counting for industrial, cleanroom, and research customers.
• Kittiwake (Alfa Laval): Offers inline oil condition monitoring and particle-counting sensors for marine, power, and industrial lubrication. Directly comparable to PAMAS's online monitoring instruments for hydraulic and lube oil applications.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance5 records

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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