CODEL International
CODEL International manufactures continuous emissions monitoring systems, process control instruments, and tunnel air quality sensors, serving cement, steel, glass, power generation, waste-to-energy, and tunnel infrastructure sectors globally through 30+ distributors.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded1984
- HeadquartersBakewell, United Kingdom
- Headcount101–250
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingHardware or Manufacturing
What CODEL International does
CODEL International LTD is a UK-based privately held manufacturer of continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS), process control instrumentation, and tunnel air quality sensors, headquartered in Bakewell, Derbyshire, England. Founded in 1984 and operating with 101-250 employees, the company designs and builds measurement instruments using proprietary triboelectric dust monitoring, non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) gas analysis, time-of-flight flow measurement, and electrochemical sensing technologies. With approximately 40 years of operating history and over 20,000 products supplied globally, CODEL is positioned as a niche specialist serving regulated industrial and infrastructure monitoring applications.
The product portfolio spans four categories: stack emissions monitoring (GCEM 50E QAL1 extractive gas analyser, GCEM 40 series, DCEM 6000 QAL1 dust analyser, DCEM2100, VCEM5100 flow monitor), process control instruments (EnergyTech dust monitors, leak detectors, broken bag detectors, coal mill fire detection systems), tunnel sensors (TunnelTech visibility, air quality, gas, flow, and luminance monitors), and ambient air quality monitors (Polludrone, Odosense, Dustroid). The CODEL Cloud platform provides real-time remote instrument data access and includes a FilterVision add-on module for connected baghouse performance monitoring. Several products carry QAL1 (EN 15267), MCERTS, and TUV certifications required for legally regulated CEMS deployments.
CODEL generates revenue through hardware product sales, recurring service and maintenance contracts with 24-hour support, CODEL Cloud subscriptions, and professional services including installation and commissioning. The company sells exclusively through a quote-based enterprise field sales motion, supported by a network of over 30 distributors and support centres covering Europe, North America, Central and South America, Africa, and Asia and Australasia. Primary customers operate in cement, steel, glass, power generation, waste-to-energy, and tunnel infrastructure sectors, with secondary exposure to crematoriums, asphalt, plasterboard, ambient air quality, and industrial process control applications. No public pricing is disclosed; contracts are typically multi-year and configuration-specific.
CODEL International firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- CODEL International
- Legal name
- CODEL International LTD
- Website
- https://codel.co.uk
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 1984
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 101–250 employees
- Short description
- CODEL International manufactures continuous emissions monitoring systems, process control instruments, and tunnel air quality sensors, serving cement, steel, glass, power generation, waste-to-energy, and tunnel infrastructure sectors globally through 30+ distributors.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
CODEL International industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Industrial Emissions Monitoring Instrumentation
- NAICS
- Totalizing Fluid Meter and Counting Device Manufacturing (334514)
- SIC
- Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) & Stack Testing (EUAHADAA)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Stack/Source Emissions Testing & CEMS Support (EUAHACAB), Ambient Air Quality Monitoring (Criteria Pollutants & Air Toxics) (EUAHACAA), Emissions Controls & Environmental Retrofit Services (SCR/FGD/ESP, CEMS) (EUAEALAL)
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Where CODEL International is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Bakewell
- HQ country
- United Kingdom
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices1 record
Markets served
CODEL International business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Hardware or Manufacturing
- Cost components
- Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales
Revenue model
- Hardware Product Sales: Sale of emissions monitoring equipment including dust monitors (DCEM series, EnergyTech series), gas analysers (GCEM series), flow monitors (VCEM series), and tunnel sensors. Products range from low cost dust monitors to fully automated integrated emissions monitoring systems.
- Service and Maintenance Contracts: Annual maintenance contracts available including transmission of emission data to environmental authorities as required by law. Flexible maintenance contracts with 24-hour support. Tailor-made plant-specific contracts offered.
- CODEL Cloud Platform: Cloud-based software platform for real-time instrument data access and management, providing remote monitoring capabilities.
- Professional Services: Installation services, commissioning, and technical support provided through distributor network worldwide.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Other | Multi-year contract | Custom quotation-based pricing |
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels3 records
Marketing channels5 records
CODEL International product offering
Product offeringCore offering
CODEL International manufactures continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS) including dust monitors, gas analysers, and flue gas velocity monitors for industrial stacks. It also supplies process control monitors (baghouse leak detection, coal mill fire detection) and a dedicated tunnel sensor range for road, rail, and river tunnels. The CODEL Cloud platform complements the hardware with real-time remote data access for regulatory emissions reporting and preventative maintenance.
Product overview
CODEL International is an emissions monitoring instrumentation manufacturer offering a comprehensive portfolio of monitoring solutions. The product range spans four main categories: Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) including the GCEM 50E (new QAL1 certified extractive analyser), GCEM 40 Series (in-situ gas analysers), DCEM 6000 (QAL1 triboelectric dust analyser), DCEM2100 (dual-pass opacity monitor), and VCEM5100 (flow velocity monitor); Process Control monitors including EnergyTech dust monitors, leak detectors, broken bag detectors, and early fire detection systems (EnergyTech 201/202/203) for coal mill protection; Tunnel Sensors including TunnelTech visibility monitors, air quality monitors, gas monitors, flow monitors, and light monitors; and Ambient Air Quality Monitors including Polludrone, Odosense, and Dustroid. The CODEL Cloud platform provides live data hub connectivity for real-time monitoring and remote access across the product portfolio. Products utilize measurement technologies including NDIR, triboelectric, electrochemical, and optical sensing for gas, dust, flow, and visibility measurement in industrial, tunnel, and environmental applications.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- CODEL Cloud: Cloud-based live data hub platform providing instant, accurate, and actionable insights for instrument data monitoring and management.
Products and services
- GCEM 50E QAL1 Extractive Gas Analyser TUV QAL1 and MCERTS certified hot/wet extractive multi-channel gas analyser for continuous stack emissions monitoring, using NDIR technology to measure up to 10 gases continuously with 0.1°C temperature stabilisation. Designed for industrial facilities with difficult flue gas conditions.
- GCEM 40 Series Gas Analysers In-situ economical, low-maintenance gas analyser family for process control and stack emissions monitoring, including the GCEM 40 base unit and GCEM 40E extractive variant. Measures CO, NOx, SO2, HCl, CH4, CO2 and H2O with QAL1 certified options available.
- DCEM 6000 QAL1 Dust Analyser QAL1 certified triboelectric dust analyser for high-accuracy continuous stack emissions monitoring, providing real-time particulate data to support regulatory compliance and optimise filtration performance.
- DCEM2100 Dust Monitor Dual-pass transmissometer configured for continuous measurement of opacity and dust concentration in combustion gases for stack emissions monitoring.
- VCEM5100 Flue Gas Velocity Monitor QAL1 certified flow monitor that measures the velocity of stack gases using a highly accurate time-of-flight measurement derived from cross-correlation analysis of infra-red emissions of turbulent gas.
- EnergyTech Process Control Dust Monitors Process control dust monitoring family including the EnergyTech 101 single-pass opacity monitor, EnergyTech 600 dust monitor, EnergyTech 610 leak detector, and EnergyTech 300 broken bag detector for baghouse and dust collector performance monitoring.
- EnergyTech Coal Mill Fire Detection Monitors Early fire detection monitor family for coal mill protection, including EnergyTech 201 (CO and O2 monitor), EnergyTech 202 (IR CO monitor), and EnergyTech 203 (CO and O2 monitor with zirconium sensor) for detecting fires in coal-rich environments.
- TunnelTech Visibility and Air Quality Monitors Tunnel air quality and visibility monitoring range including TunnelTech 101 visibility monitor, TunnelTech 102 cold smoke monitor, TunnelTech 201 (CO, NO and visibility), TunnelTech 202 (CO and visibility), TunnelTech 203 (CO and NO), and TunnelTech 204 (visibility only) for road, rail, and river tunnel environments.
- TunnelTech Electrochemical Gas Monitors Single and multi-gas electrochemical cell monitors for tunnels, including TunnelTech 400 single gas monitor, TunnelTech 500 multi-gas (CO, NO, NO2), TunnelTech 700 multi-gas and visibility, and TunnelTech 900 multi-gas with backscatter visibility.
- TunnelTech Flow and Light Monitors Tunnel ventilation and lighting monitors including TunnelTech 305 single-point air flow monitor, TunnelTech 801 cross-tunnel flow monitor, TunnelTech 601 luminance monitor, and TunnelTech 602 illuminance monitor for tunnel safety and ventilation applications.
- Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Systems Ambient air quality monitoring product family including the Polludrone ambient air monitor, Odosense odour monitoring system, and Dustroid ambient dust monitor for measuring air quality, particulates, and odours in urban and industrial environments.
- CODEL Cloud Live Data Hub Cloud-based data platform providing real-time remote access to instrument data across the installed base, with the FilterVision module offering connected baghouse performance tracking for early fault detection and preventative maintenance.
Quantifiable outcome
- Over 20,000 products supplied globally
- +3 more outcomes
Companies that use CODEL International
Customer profileSegments11 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
CODEL International technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature6 records
CODEL International partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
One partnership is on record.
- Global Distributor NetworkcoreCODEL maintains a network of over 30 distributors and support centres worldwide covering Europe, North America, Central & South America, Africa, and Asia & Australasia. These distributors provide product delivery, installation, and support services to customers in their respective regions.
Scale indicators4 records
CODEL International competitors and assessment
Company assessmentEmerging players
- Aeroqual: New Zealand-based air quality monitoring company with sensor-based gas and particulate products, broadly competitive with CODEL's Polludrone and Dustroid ambient platforms in environmental monitoring contexts.
- Vaisala: Finnish specialist in environmental and industrial measurements; its air quality, road weather and tunnel/roadside monitoring portfolio overlaps CODEL's TunnelTech and Polludrone/Odosense/Dustroid ambient offerings.
- Casella (an IDEX company): Industrial hygiene and environmental monitoring vendor with dust, noise and air-quality instruments; partial overlap with CODEL's process-control dust monitors and ambient air quality portfolio.
Broad incumbents
- Endress+Hauser: Global process instrumentation major with extensive gas analysis and emissions monitoring offerings, serving the same cement, power, EfW and chemical customers as CODEL but across a much broader instrumentation portfolio.
- Horiba: Japanese analytical and measurement instrument company with a strong stack gas analyser and emissions line-up (via Horiba Process & Environmental), competing with CODEL in power plant and industrial CEMS deployments.
- Siemens Process Instrumentation: Industrial automation conglomerate offering extractive gas analysers, CEMS solutions and process analytics — competing in larger integrated emissions-monitoring scopes than CODEL's mid-market focus.
- Thermo Fisher Scientific (Emissions Monitoring): Diversified scientific instrumentation major with CEMS-grade gas analysers (e.g., iQ, Mercury) used by regulated industrial emitters, addressing many of the same compliance customers as CODEL.
- AMETEK (Land Instruments / Thermox): Diversified electronic instruments group whose Land and Thermox businesses supply combustion/flue gas analysers and opacity monitors used in industrial CEMS — competing with CODEL on stack-level emissions measurement.
Direct peers
- Durag Group: Specialist in combustion and emissions monitoring (dust, gas, flow, opacity) for industrial plants, with a similar QAL1/MCERTS-driven product strategy to CODEL and a comparable focus on stack and process monitoring.
- SICK AG: German-headquartered manufacturer of industrial sensors and process instrumentation, with a large Continuous Emissions Monitoring portfolio (gas, dust, flow) serving cement, waste incineration, and power — directly overlapping CODEL's CEMS product lines.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
CODEL International social profiles
Digital presenceCODEL International compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance3 records
CODEL International financial estimates
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CODEL International leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
CODEL International funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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CODEL International M&A and investment
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Investments
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Frequently asked questions about CODEL International
What does CODEL International do?
CODEL International manufactures continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS) including dust monitors, gas analysers, and flue gas velocity monitors for industrial stacks. It also supplies process control monitors (baghouse leak detection, coal mill fire detection) and a dedicated tunnel sensor range for road, rail, and river tunnels. The CODEL Cloud platform complements the hardware with real-time remote data access for regulatory emissions reporting and preventative maintenance.
Is CODEL International a public or private company?
CODEL International is a private company. It is classified as unknown and is currently operating.
When was CODEL International founded?
CODEL International was founded in 1984. It employs 101 to 250 people.
Where is CODEL International based?
CODEL International is headquartered in Bakewell, United Kingdom, in the Europe region.
How does CODEL International make money?
Four revenue lines are on record. Hardware Product Sales are the primary driver. The others are service and Maintenance Contracts, CODEL Cloud Platform and professional Services.
Who are CODEL International's main competitors?
Emerging players on record are Aeroqual, Vaisala and Casella (an IDEX company). Broad incumbents are Endress+Hauser, Horiba, Siemens Process Instrumentation, Thermo Fisher Scientific (Emissions Monitoring) and AMETEK (Land Instruments / Thermox). Direct peers are Durag Group and SICK AG.
Does CODEL International have an API?
No public API is recorded for CODEL International.
What industry is CODEL International in?
CODEL International's product category is Industrial Emissions Monitoring Instrumentation. Its primary akta.pro industry code is EUAHADAA, Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) & Stack Testing, with a secondary code of EUAHACAB, Stack/Source Emissions Testing & CEMS Support. Its NAICS code is 334514 and its SIC code is 3823.