What Solexperts does

Solexperts AG is a privately held Swiss geotechnical and hydrogeological instrumentation company founded in 1947 by Giovanni Rodio and headquartered in Mönchaltorf, Switzerland, with operating branches in Geneva, Nancy (France), Bochum and Karlsruhe (Germany). The group employs approximately 90 engineers, geologists, hydrogeologists, geophysicists and technicians, and operates as the "extended workbench" of leading European research institutions and national radioactive waste management agencies (NAGRA, ANDRA, NUMO, NWMO, NWS, BGE, JAEA, LBNL).

The company develops, manufactures and deploys proprietary measurement systems for in-situ borehole testing, gas monitoring, fiber optic distributed temperature and strain sensing (DTS/DTSS), thermal leak detection, geodetic monitoring and highly deformable concrete/steel tunnel support elements. Its core technology stack includes the patented SysMoG® gas probe family (including SurfMoG®H2), GTC Kappelmeyer® thermal leak detection, hiDCon® and hiDSte® deformable support elements, baLCon® ballistic concrete, the FO Multi-Packer Systems, and the Solexperts IoT cloud platform for data acquisition, processing and visualization.

Solexperts generates revenue through three intertwined streams: (1) hardware sales of measurement systems and instruments (extensometers, inclinometers, piezometers, packer systems, GeoMonitor total stations), (2) global field services for instrumentation, monitoring and in-situ testing on tunnels, dams, foundations, nuclear waste repositories and tailings storage facilities, and (3) R&D co-development partnerships with universities and government agencies in nuclear waste disposal, geothermal energy and CO2 sequestration. Pricing is project-based and not publicly disclosed, with customers engaged through direct enterprise sales to scientific institutions, construction contractors, energy companies and public authorities.

Name

Solexperts

Legal name

Solexperts AG

Website

https://solexperts.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1947

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Solexperts AG is a Swiss geotechnical and hydrogeological instrumentation specialist that develops proprietary measurement systems, sensors and software, and provides field testing and monitoring services for tunnels, dams, nuclear waste repositories, geothermal and mining projects worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Geotechnical and Hydrogeological Instrumentation

NAICS

Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (334519), Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (3345), Testing Laboratories and Services (54138), Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services (541360)

SIC

Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823), Services-Testing Laboratories (8734)

akta.pro primary industry

Geotechnical Instrumentation & Monitoring (Settlement, Inclinometers, Piezometers) (IMAFAOAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Geotechnical Site Investigation & Engineering Geology (Borings, Lab Testing) (EUAHAFAE), Reactor Monitoring, Diagnostics & Predictive Maintenance (Sensors, Digital Twin, PHM) (EUAKADAM)

Keywords

• Geotechnical instrumentation
• Hydrogeological monitoring
• In-situ borehole testing
• Fiber optic sensing
• Tunnel monitoring systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Mönchaltorf

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Measurement Systems and Instrumentation Products: Development and production of measurement systems including geotechnical sensors, hydrogeological instruments, fiber optic monitoring systems, and specialized equipment like packer systems, extensometers, and inclinometers. Products range from standard instruments to custom-made prototypes.
2. Instrumentation, Monitoring and In-situ Testing Services: Global service provision for geotechnical and hydrogeological field services including tunnel monitoring, dam monitoring, borehole testing, hydraulic fracturing tests, and gas monitoring for research and construction projects.
3. Research and Development Partnerships: Extended workbench services for research institutes and universities for design and prototype construction in nuclear waste disposal, geothermal energy, and CO2 sequestration research.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Solexperts develops and produces measurement systems and provides global services for geotechnical and hydrogeological instrumentation, monitoring, and in-situ testing. The company offers both proprietary hardware (sensors, packer systems, extensometers, fiber optic monitoring systems, ballistic and deformable concrete elements) and project-based field services for tunneling, hydraulic engineering, nuclear waste disposal research, geothermal energy, and CO2 sequestration.

Product overview

Solexperts is a geotechnical and hydrogeological instrumentation company that develops and produces measurement systems and provides global service for instrumentation, monitoring, and in-situ testing. Founded in 1947, the company operates through several sub-brands: hiDCon® (high deformable concrete and steel elements for tunnel support in squeezing rock), baLCon® (ballistic protection concrete systems), SysMoG®/SurfMoG®H2 (patented gas monitoring systems for subsurface gas measurement), MeSy (in-situ stress measurement via hydraulic fracturing), and GTC Kappelmeyer® (thermal leak detection). The Solexperts IoT platform provides cloud-based IoT data acquisition and visualization. Product portfolio includes fibre optic multi packer systems, groundwater monitoring systems, hydraulic borehole test systems (HDDP, PDPS, PMPS), borehole extensometers (SolExtensometer, Modular Extensometer, RHX), inclinometer systems, pressure sensors, data loggers (SDL, MRD), GeoMonitor (geodetic monitoring), and WebDavis (web-based visualization). The company serves tunneling, hydraulic engineering, special civil engineering, wind energy, nuclear waste disposal, geothermal energy, and CO2 sequestration projects.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MeSy: Geophysical measurements and in-situ stress determination through hydraulic fracturing and hydraulic testing of pre-existing fractures
• GTC Kappelmeyer
• hiDCon
• baLCon
• SysMoG
• Solexperts IoT
• FO-Multi Packer Systems

Products and services

• hiDCon Concrete Elements
• hiDSte High Deformable Steel Elements
• baLCon Ballistic Concrete Elements
• SysMoG Gas Monitoring System
• SurfMoG H2 Gas Monitoring Probe
• MeSy In-situ Stress Measurement Systems
• GTC Kappelmeyer Thermal Leak Detection Systems
• Solexperts IoT Cloud Platform
• FO Multi-Packer Systems
• GeoMonitor Geodetic Monitoring System
• Tailings Dam Monitoring Solution
• Groundwater Multi-Level Monitoring Systems
• Hydraulic Borehole Test Systems
• Borehole Extensometers
• Inclinometer Systems
• Pressure Sensors and Piezometers
• Fibre Optic Measurement Systems (DTS / DTSS)

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 75 years of operational history with sustained reputation in geotechnical and hydrogeological instrumentation
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

18 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and strategic.

• ANDRA (France)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2002Solexperts France was created in 2002 specifically for ANDRA's research programs at the Meuse/Haute-Marne rock laboratory (CMHM). The company installs geotechnical sensors, instruments boreholes with packer systems, conducts hydraulic and pneumatic tests, and manages geochemical experiments as an integral part of the research community.
• Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJAEA selected Solexperts for the installation of a 7-fold Stand-Pipe Multi-Packer System in the 750m deep borehole HDB-2 at the Horonobe underground research laboratory for hydrogeological and geochemical long-term monitoring.
• Géoressources, Université de LorrainecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOver 20 years of fruitful collaboration resulting in unique families of gas monitoring systems including OUROBOROS, Deep Surf, Rostock-H, Regalor, and CO2 Dissolved. Joint development of SysMoG gas measurement system for automatic subsurface gas concentration monitoring.
• Geo-Energie SuissemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on the Forsthaus geothermal accumulator project in Bern, coordinating different phases of reservoir testing to obtain detailed information on pumping behavior and water circulation in the subsurface.
• AFRYstrategicTechnology or IntegrationAFRY conducted tomographic analysis using time-of-flight-based inversion techniques for gas interference tests at the ANDRA CMHM laboratory. Software was specially developed for crosshole reactions in gas interference tests.
• Swiss National Cooperative for Radioactive Waste Disposal (NAGRA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOngoing research partnerships for nuclear waste disposal site characterization and monitoring.
• Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NUMO, Japan)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational research collaboration for nuclear waste disposal site characterization.
• Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO, Canada)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational research collaboration for nuclear waste disposal site characterization.
• National Radioactive Waste Management Agency (ANDRA, France)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term research partnership for nuclear waste disposal in France, including the Meuse/Haute-Marne underground research laboratory.
• Radioactive Waste Management (NWS, UK)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational research collaboration for nuclear waste disposal site characterization in the UK.
• EAWAGstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerSwiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology research collaboration.
• ETH ZürichstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partnerships with ETH Zurich for geotechnical and hydrogeological instrumentation projects.
• Ruhr-Universität BochumstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaborations with Ruhr-Universität Bochum in geotechnical and hydrogeological fields.
• Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)strategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaborations with KIT for geophysical and underground engineering research.
• GeoForschungszentrum Potsdam (GFZ)strategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaboration with GFZ Potsdam for geophysical research applications.
• Fraunhofer InstitutstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partnerships with Fraunhofer Institute for applied geophysics and monitoring technologies.
• Bundesanstalt für Endlagerung (BGE, Germany)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGerman Federal Authority for Repository Affairs research collaboration.
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL, US)strategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational research collaboration with US national laboratory for nuclear waste disposal characterization.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Durham Geo-Enterprises Inc. US-based provider of geotechnical and environmental instrumentation with a broad product line of inclinometers, piezometers, extensometers and data acquisition systems. Direct competitor in many of the same tunneling and dam monitoring tenders.
• Geokon Inc. US-based leading manufacturer of geotechnical and structural instrumentation (vibrating wire sensors, piezometers, inclinometers, extensometers, load cells). Direct peer in the same product category and customer base, including tunneling, dam, and mining applications.
• Geosense Ltd. UK-based manufacturer and supplier of geotechnical, structural, and environmental sensors including inclinometers, piezometers, extensometers, and data acquisition systems. Comparable European peer in the same instrumentation niche.
• Roctest Ltd. Canadian manufacturer of high-precision geotechnical and structural instrumentation (vibrating wire, fibre optic, MEMS sensors). Comparable peer focused on demanding applications including dam safety, tunneling, and nuclear waste storage monitoring.
• SISGEO S.r.l. Italian manufacturer of geotechnical, structural, and environmental monitoring instruments with strong European presence. Direct peer serving tunneling, dam, slope monitoring, and underground construction projects with similar product portfolio to Solexperts.
• RST Instruments Ltd. Canadian manufacturer of geotechnical, structural, and environmental monitoring instruments (inclinometers, extensometers, piezometers, load cells, data loggers). Competes head-to-head with Solexperts on tunneling, mining, and dam monitoring projects globally.

Emerging players

• Itasca Consulting Group Inc. US-based geotechnical and rock mechanics numerical modeling consultancy. Comparable in the underground/nuclear waste disposal research ecosystem as a specialty partner, though focused on software and consulting rather than physical instrumentation.
• Measurand Inc. Canadian manufacturer of ShapeArray, a 3D shape-based deformation sensor for tunnels, slopes, and excavations. Solexperts already distributes and integrates the SAA Measurand ShapeArray, making Measurand a complementary emerging player in the same monitoring value chain.

Broad incumbents

• Nova Metrix LLC: US-based parent company of multiple geotechnical instrumentation brands (Geokon, RST, Durham Geo, etc.). Functions as a broad incumbent with the scale and product breadth to compete across the full range of geotechnical and structural monitoring projects.
• Keller Group plc: UK-listed global geotechnical and ground engineering contractor. A larger incumbent with deep involvement in foundation, ground improvement, and underground construction projects, frequently acting as both customer and competitor to specialty instrumentation suppliers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles16 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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