CTVIM

What CTVIM does

CTVIM is a French cooperative founded in 1988 that operates in legal metrology (métrique légale) for the weighing industry. Headquartered in Arles, with accredited laboratories in Paris and Auxerre, the cooperative aggregates 80+ member weighing companies across France and employs 11–50 staff at the central organization level. Its core service is the regulated verification, repair, calibration, and certification of non-automatic (IPFNA) and automatic (IPFA) weighing instruments, refractometers, and physical standards (weights and masses) covering a range from 1mg to 2000kg. Operations sit inside a multi-layered regulatory framework including COFRAC accreditation, state oversight via DREETS/DRIEETS/DEETS, and LNE certification.

Name

CTVIM

Legal name

CTVIM

Website

https://ctvim.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1988

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CTVIM is a French cooperative founded in 1988 providing COFRAC-accredited legal metrology services — verification, calibration, and certification of weighing instruments and standards — to French businesses and 80+ member weighing companies through labs in Arles, Paris, and Auxerre.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Metrology and Calibration Services

NAICS

Testing Laboratories and Services (54138), Testing Laboratories and Services (541380)

SIC

Services-Testing Laboratories (8734)

akta.pro primary industry

Standards, Metrology & Accreditation Bodies (BPAIAOAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Metrology, Calibration & Testing Equipment (Balances, pH/DO, Standards) (HLAGAIAL)

Keywords

• Legal metrology services
• Weighing instrument calibration
• Mass calibration laboratory
• Regulated verification services
• Metrology training

Headquarters

HQ city

Arles

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Legal Metrology Services: Verification, repair, and periodic revision services for weighing instruments (IPFNA and IPFA) and refractometers. These regulated services are performed by authorized technicians within the CTVIM network.
2. Calibration Services: Calibration of weights, masses, and balances in accredited laboratories. Calibration services for weights from 1 mg to 2000 kg, and balances up to 3 tons.
3. Product Sales (Weights and Masses): Sale of standard weights and masses, approved baskets, and weight-price series. Products include weights from 1mg to 5000kg, calibration baskets, and specialized series for price-weighing scales.
4. Training and Consulting: Audits, consulting, and training in legal metrology or internal metrology. Training programs on measurement instruments, weights and masses. Online training platform (CeFoLi) offering courses on weighing and legal metrology.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

CTVIM is a French cooperative that delivers regulated legal metrology services (periodic verification, repair, and revision of non-automatic and automatic weighing instruments and refractometers), COFRAC-accredited calibration of standard weights and masses across three laboratories, sale of certified weights, masses, and LNE-approved calibration baskets, proprietary metrology and quality management software, and online training through the CeFoLi platform. It serves weighing professionals and businesses subject to French metrology regulation, with services performed by an authorized network of 80+ member companies.

Product overview

CTVIM is a cooperative network of over 80 weighing professionals offering legal metrology and calibration services in France. The product portfolio centers on weight and mass calibration standards (Poids et masses, including the Série Poids Prix and Panier étalon approuvé product lines), complemented by a suite of custom software (Logiciels informatique including OISO for intervention programming and CeFoLi Moodle-based training platform), along with regulated services for IPFNA and IPFA weighing instruments, calibration laboratories (Arles, Paris, Auxerre), and consulting/audit services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Prestations IPFNA (Non-Automatic Weighing Instruments services) Regulated technical services on non-automatic weighing instruments (IPFNA), including legal metrology (periodic verification, repair and periodic revision, manufacturing) and calibration. Delivered to weighing professionals and businesses subject to French metrology regulation through CTVIM's network of authorized member companies.
• Prestations IPFA (Automatic Weighing Instruments services) Regulated technical services on automatic weighing instruments (IPFA), including legal metrology (periodic verification and repair). Delivered to weighing professionals and end-user businesses through CTVIM's authorized member-company network.
• Refractometer legal metrology services Regulated technical services on refractometers, including legal metrology (repair and periodic revision). Delivered through CTVIM's member-company network to businesses using refractometers in regulated processes.
• Laboratoires d'étalonnage (Calibration laboratories) COFRAC-accredited calibration services across three laboratories: Arles (1 mg to 2,000 kg, F1 weights / M1 masses), Paris (1 mg to 100 kg, F1 weights / M1 masses), and Auxerre (100 mg to 2,000 kg, M1 weights / M1 masses), plus balance calibration up to 3 tons. Provides traceability for standard weights, masses, and balances used by weighing professionals and end-user businesses.
• Etudes – Conseil (Consulting studies) Consulting services covering optimization of instrument fleet management, regulatory compliance assessment, certification support, and subcontracting of quality assurance functions. Targeted at weighing companies and businesses using regulated measuring instruments.
• Audits (Audit services) Audit services covering NF EN ISO 9001, NF EN ISO CEI 17020, NF EN ISO CEI 17025, and weighing and refractometer regulations. Provided to weighing companies and businesses requiring quality system or regulatory audits.
• Formations (Training programs) Training programs in legal metrology and internal metrology covering measurement instruments, weights and masses. Delivered in-person across CTVIM's training centers and online via the CeFoLi platform.
• CeFoLi (CEntre de FOrmation en LIgne) — online training platform Online training center based on the Moodle platform, offering courses on legal metrology, weighing instruments (IPFNA, IPFA), quality management, and calibration software. Provides self-enrollment access to metrology training for weighing professionals and businesses.
• Poids et masses (Standard weights and masses) Sale of standard calibration weights and masses, including weights from 1 mg to 5,000 kg in classes F1, F2, M1, M2, and M3, and calibration baskets. Sold through the CTVIM online boutique to weighing professionals and businesses for measurement traceability.
• Série Poids Prix (Weight-price series) Weight set designed for 6/15 kg price-weighing scales, totaling 17.11 kg of classified standards, manufactured by ZWIEBEL. Complete case weighs approximately 19 kg. Sold to weighing operators and businesses for legal price-weighing applications.
• Série Poids Prix Bis (Lighter weight-price series) Lighter version of the standard weight set designed for operators who regularly travel to assignments. Complete case weighs approximately 8.4 kg plus an 11 kg case for 2x5 kg weights. Sold through the CTVIM boutique.
• Panier étalon approuvé (Approved calibration basket) Approved calibration baskets for scales, small bridges, and pallet handlers, available in 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and 50 kg models and classable in M1, M2, or M3. Sold under LNE-35550 certificate of approval for legal metrology use.
• Logiciels informatique CTVIM (CTVIM software suite) Custom software suite including quality management software, legal metrology intervention management (OISO), and weight/mass calibration software. Developed by CTVIM over 25 years and sold to weighing professionals and member companies to manage verification activities and quality systems.

Quantifiable outcome

• Network covers entire France through 80+ member companies
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• ZWIEBELcoreTechnology or IntegrationMain supplier of weights and masses. ZWIEBEL is the only French manufacturer of standard weights and masses. CTVIM works exclusively with ZWIEBEL as their primary supplier for weights and masses products, including the specialized weight-price series designed by CTVIM and manufactured by ZWIEBEL.
• COFRAC (Comité Français d'Accréditation)coreOthersFrench accreditation body that performs audits of verifiers and delivers accreditations required prior to obtaining approval by DREETS. CTVIM member companies require COFRAC accreditation for verification activities.
• LNE (Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais)coreOthersNational laboratory that performs audits of repairers and manufacturers and issues quality system approval certificates for manufacturing and repair operations. LNE provides the LNE-35550 certificate for CTVIM's approved standard baskets.
• DREETS/DRIEETS/DEETS (Directions Régionales de l'Économie, de l'Emploi, du Travail et des Solidarités)coreOthersRegional state services in charge of legal metrology in France. DREETS (DRIEETS in Ile-de-France, DEETS in DOM) is the authority responsible for legal metrology, delivers approvals to verification organizations, and monitors compliance with regulatory obligations.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Intertek: Global TIC provider with calibration and instrument verification services. Comparable to CTVIM in regulated verification/calibration activity, though operates at vastly larger scale and across multiple geographies and product verticals.
• SGS: One of the world's largest testing, inspection, and certification companies, offering calibration and metrology services alongside a much wider industrial and consumer testing portfolio. Comparable to CTVIM only at the calibration service level, but a relevant incumbent for benchmarking scale and accreditation footprint.
• TÜV Rheinland: Major international TIC group offering calibration, testing, and certification services. While primarily German-based and broader in scope, it competes for accredited metrology work and represents the type of scale player CTVIM could partner with or benchmark against.
• Bureau Veritas: Global TIC (Testing, Inspection, Certification) giant with a regulated metrology and calibration services line. Overlaps with CTVIM on calibration and instrument verification, but operates as a broad, publicly-listed incumbent rather than a niche French cooperative.

Emerging players

• Kern & Sohn: German precision balance and weighing instrument manufacturer. Comparable as an equipment-side peer whose regulated products require the kind of verification, calibration, and traceability services CTVIM provides in France.
• A&D Company: Japanese manufacturer of weighing instruments and balances with European distribution. Comparable to CTVIM at the instrument level: produces the regulated IPFNA/IPFA-class devices whose verification and calibration cycles drive CTVIM's service revenue.

Others

• LNE (Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais): France's national metrology laboratory and the body that issues quality approvals (including CTVIM's LNE-35550 type-approval for standard baskets). Functions as CTVIM's upstream regulator and standards-setter, not a competitor, but tightly entwined with CTVIM's accreditation.
• AFNOR Certification: French standards and certification body covering ISO 9001, 17020, 17025 — areas CTVIM audits clients against. Adjacent rather than competitive: a potential partner or downstream referral for CTVIM's regulated clients needing ISO certification.

Direct peers

• Mettler-Toledo: Leading global manufacturer of precision balances and weighing instruments, whose installed base of regulated instruments is the substrate CTVIM verifies and calibrates. Closely linked through the regulated instrument lifecycle, though CTVIM is service-side and Mettler-Toledo is equipment-side.
• Sartorius: Manufacturer of precision balances and weighing equipment for laboratory and industrial use. Analogous position to Mettler-Toledo: its regulated instruments create downstream demand for the type of verification and calibration services CTVIM provides in France.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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