Ndt.Net
Ndt.Net is a German open-access portal and publishing platform for the global non-destructive testing industry, operating since 1996. It serves NDT practitioners, researchers, and equipment manufacturers through two journals, an archive of 25,000+ papers, a 112-exhibitor virtual marketplace, and conference cooperation services.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded1996
- HeadquartersMayen, Germany
- Headcount1–10
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingDigital Commerce or Content
What Ndt.Net does
Ndt.Net GmbH & Co. KG operates the largest open-access portal serving the global non-destructive testing (NDT) industry, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Germany. The platform is a web-based digital archive and publishing system anchored by two journals: the e-Journal of Nondestructive Testing (eJNDT, ISSN 1435-4934, published monthly since 1996) and the peer-reviewed Research and Review Journal of Nondestructive Testing (ReJNDT, ISSN 2941-4989, launched in 2023). The architecture combines a searchable archive of 25,000+ papers and 270+ publications with a virtual exhibition marketplace of 112 exhibitors, a technical forum, a professional network (MyNDT), and a buyers guide organized by NDT method, country, and business type. Content is indexed in CrossRef, Google Scholar, and DOAJ, with DOI and ORCID assignment supporting academic credibility.
The platform serves a horizontal audience spanning NDT practitioners, academic researchers, equipment manufacturers, and conference organizers across more than ten countries. Ndt.Net generates revenue through a mix of subscription and advertising streams: virtual exhibition stand subscriptions (€60–100/month in three tiers), banner advertising (€350–500+), sponsor logos (€300–500), dedicated email blasts to 25,000+ subscribers (€1,300 each), and company memberships (from €60/month). Conference cooperation services are provided largely on a barter basis, exchanging media sponsorship and proceedings publishing for promotional visibility. Free individual memberships and free open-access content underpin community growth and traffic; Google Analytics reports 100,000 monthly users, with 60,000+ unique monthly users and 25,000+ newsletter subscribers. Strategic distribution is reinforced by media-sponsorship roles at major industry conferences including ECNDT 2026 (Verona, 3,998 participants), iCT 2027 (Grenoble), and SINCE 2027 (Singapore).
Ndt.Net firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Ndt.Net
- Legal name
- NDT.net
- Website
- https://ndt.net
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 1996
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 1–10 employees
- Short description
- Ndt.Net is a German open-access portal and publishing platform for the global non-destructive testing industry, operating since 1996. It serves NDT practitioners, researchers, and equipment manufacturers through two journals, an archive of 25,000+ papers, a 112-exhibitor virtual marketplace, and conference cooperation services.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Ndt.Net industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Industry Publishing Platform
- NAICS
- Periodical Publishers (51312), Periodical Publishers (513120), Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers (5131), Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (519), Book Publishers (513130)
- SIC
- Miscellaneous Publishing (2741), Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) & Inspection Services (IMAIACAI)
Keywords
Where Ndt.Net is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Mayen
- HQ country
- Germany
- HQ region
- Europe
Markets served
Ndt.Net business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Digital Commerce or Content
- Cost components
- Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations
Revenue model
- Virtual Exhibition Stand Subscriptions: Monthly subscription packages for companies to create virtual exhibition stands featuring company descriptions, logos, banners, product showcases, and video content. Packages range from Standard (60€/month) to StandardPlus (80€/month) to Premium (100€/month).
- Advertising and Sponsorship: Revenue from banner advertising (skyscraper, footer, section-specific), newsletter banners, main sponsor and sponsor logo placements, showcase promotions, and dedicated email blasts (1,300€).
- Company Membership: Paid company/organization memberships starting from €60/month enabling businesses to highlight products and services, share content, and reach the NDT community.
- Conference Promotion Services: Barter-based conference promotion packages where NDT.net receives media sponsor or publisher recognition in exchange for promotional services including logo placement, newsletter features, and dedicated bulk mailings.
- Professional Membership: Free individual membership providing profile creation, job discovery, and content access. Platform facilitates community building and user engagement for the NDT professional network.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription | Annual | Standard virtual exhibition stand with essential visibility features |
| Subscription | Annual | Standard plus product showcase visibility |
| Subscription | Annual | Premium unlimited showcase and maximum promotion |
| Other | Multi-year contract | Showcase promotion for permanent top placement |
| Other | Multi-year contract | Wide Skyscraper Banners shared placement |
| Other | Multi-year contract | Footer Banners non-shared placement |
| Other | Multi-year contract | Main Sponsor Logo placement |
| Other | Multi-year contract | Sponsor Logo placement |
| Other | Pay-as-you-go | Dedicated Email Blast |
| Freemium | Annual | Free individual professional membership |
| Subscription | Monthly | Company/Organization membership |
Go-to-market motion2 records
Distribution channels4 records
Marketing channels8 records
Ndt.Net product offering
Product offeringCore offering
NDT.net GmbH & Co. KG operates an open access web portal for the non-destructive testing (NDT) industry, publishing two journals (eJNDT since 1996 and ReJNDT since 2023), archiving over 25,000 papers, hosting an online exhibition marketplace with 112 exhibitors, a professional network (MyNDT), a technical forum, and conference proceedings publishing services. The platform generates revenue through paid virtual exhibition stand subscriptions, banner advertising, sponsorships, company memberships, and dedicated email blasts to its 25,000+ newsletter subscriber base.
Product overview
NDT.net is an open-access portal and publishing platform for the nondestructive testing (NDT) industry. The platform consists of multiple interconnected services: two core journals (e-Journal of Nondestructive Testing published since 1996 and Research and Review Journal of Nondestructive Testing launched in 2023), a repository for proceedings and dissertations, an online exhibition platform with 112 exhibitors featuring product showcases and buyers guide, a professional forum for technical discussions and career networking, and conference cooperation services. The platform serves over 60,000 monthly unique users and 25,000 newsletter subscribers with free open-access publishing model for authors and readers.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- e-Journal of Nondestructive Testing (eJNDT): Open access journal publishing research papers, proceedings, application notes, technical blogs since 1996. ISSN 1435-4934.
- Research and Review Journal of Nondestructive Testing (ReJNDT)
- NDT.net Repository
- MyNDT
Products and services
- e-Journal of Nondestructive Testing (eJNDT) Monthly open access journal covering a broad range of NDT themes with editorial pre-review, targeted at NDT researchers, academics, and practitioners worldwide.
- Research and Review Journal of Nondestructive Testing (ReJNDT) Peer-reviewed open-access international journal focusing on high-quality reviewed NDT research contributions, targeted at academic researchers and industry scientists.
- NDT.net Repository (Open Access Archive) Open access archive platform for dissemination of previously published content, proceedings, dissertations, e-books, preprints, second publications, grey and white literature, reviews, and open educational resources for the NDT community.
- Online Exhibition Platform Virtual exhibition marketplace enabling NDT equipment manufacturers and suppliers to showcase products, videos, and company profiles to a global audience of NDT buyers, available in Standard (€60/month), StandardPlus (€80/month), and Premium (€100/month) subscription tiers.
- MyNDT Professional Network Professional membership network platform for NDT professionals offering profile creation, skill display, work sharing, job discovery, content bookmarking for individuals, and paid company memberships for product/service visibility and advertising.
- NDT Forum Community discussion platform enabling technical exchanges, career discussions, job postings, virtual showroom listings, and open peer review across NDT topics.
- Conference Cooperation Services Barter-based conference publishing and promotion service for NDT conferences and events, providing proceedings publishing with DOI/ORCID assignment, media sponsorship promotion packages, and conference promotion to the NDT community.
Quantifiable outcome
- Google Analytics reports 100,000 users each month
- +5 more outcomes
Companies that use Ndt.Net
Customer profileNamed customers6 records
Segments4 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
Ndt.Net technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature6 records
Ndt.Net partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered main sponsor, core sponsor, core partner and regional partner.
- Evident Industrialmain sponsorMain sponsor of NDT.net with product showcases including OmniScan X4 phased array flaw detector and NORTEC 700 eddy current array. Provides leading portfolio of innovative test, measurement, and imaging instruments for the industrial professional.
- Waygate Technologies (Baker Hughes)main sponsorMain sponsor and exhibitor, formerly GE Inspection Technologies. Industrial inspection solutions company offering Krautkrämer PAXYS portable phased array ultrasound scanner for corrosion inspection.
- OKOndt GROUPmain sponsorMain sponsor providing turnkey NDT technologies addressing various problems connected with non-destructive testing.
- Sonotron NDTmain sponsorMain sponsor and original developer and manufacturer of advanced ultrasonic instruments for NDT applications.
- Comet Yxlon GmbHcore sponsorSponsor and exhibitor designing, manufacturing, and marketing high-end X-ray and CT system solutions with integrated services for industrial environments.
- Eddyfi Technologiescore sponsorSponsor providing the most advanced NDT technologies in the world. Acquired by ESAB Corporation in June 2026. Offers 321 product showcases on the platform.
- TecScan Systemscore sponsorSponsor and exhibitor offering complete line of NDT scanners, immersion tanks and gantry systems incorporating Ultrasonic, Phased Array and Eddy Current technologies.
- ROSEN Groupcore sponsorSponsor providing state-of-the-art automated NDT solutions and services to the metals, railway and oil & gas industries through Rosenxt brand.
- Magnetic Analysis Corporation (MAC)core sponsorSponsor and exhibitor providing instruments, systems and solutions recognized worldwide as the standard for nondestructive magnetic testing.
- European Federation for Non-Destructive Testing (EFNDT)core partnerAwarded Rolf Diederichs, Founder of NDT.net, recognition for 30 Years of Connecting the Global Community at ECNDT 2026. Key institutional partner in the European NDT industry.
- Italian Society for NDT (AIPnD)core partnerOrganizer of ECNDT 2026, the 14th European Conference on Non-Destructive Testing held June 15-19 in Verona, Italy with nearly 4,000 participants.
- Non-Destructive Testing Society of Singapore (NDTSS)regional partnerOrganizer of SINCE 2027 (Singapore International Non-Destructive Testing Conference and Exhibition) and QIRT-Asia 2027 conferences.
Scale indicators9 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights5 records
Ndt.Net competitors and assessment
Company assessmentBroad incumbents
- Springer Nature: Springer Nature is a major academic publisher with extensive NDT-relevant journal portfolios (NDT & E International, Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation). It competes for premium NDT research submissions and provides an alternative publishing venue that overlaps with NDT.net's journal offerings.
- ThomasNet: ThomasNet is a long-established industrial B2B supplier discovery and content platform. Although much broader than NDT.net, it competes for the same NDT equipment manufacturers' visibility and lead-generation budgets that NDT.net monetizes through its virtual exhibition.
- Engineering360 (formerly GlobalSpec): Engineering360 is a large B2B media platform aggregating industrial product catalogs, technical articles, and supplier directories. It serves a much broader industrial audience than NDT.net but competes for NDT supplier advertising spend and engineering audience attention.
- Elsevier NDT & E International: Elsevier publishes NDT & E International, the leading subscription NDT research journal. It competes with NDT.net's eJNDT and ReJNDT for high-quality NDT research submissions and library/institutional readership.
Emerging players
- Inderscience Publishers: Inderscience publishes peer-reviewed academic journals including NDT-adjacent titles. It competes for NDT research publication submissions and library subscriptions, overlapping with NDT.net's eJNDT and ReJNDT journals.
Direct peers
- Quality Magazine (BNP Media): Quality Magazine is a B2B trade publication covering metrology, testing, and inspection - the same audience NDT.net serves. It uses a digital publishing plus event model with sponsor and exhibitor revenue, parallel to NDT.net's exhibition and newsletter monetization.
- Inspectioneering: Inspectioneering is a vertically-focused media and publishing platform covering asset integrity, reliability, and inspection topics that overlap heavily with NDT. Like NDT.net, it pairs editorial content with a B2B buyer audience and produces sponsored content and digital resources for industrial professionals.
Others
- ASM International: ASM International is a materials-focused professional society with journals, conferences, and reference resources. Its NDT-adjacent content in failure analysis and materials characterization overlaps with NDT.net's editorial coverage and competes for NDT professional and academic attention.
- ASTM International: ASTM is a global standards and technical publication organization whose NDT-related standards and journal articles overlap with the content NDT.net publishes. Both serve as reference resources for NDT practitioners and compete for institutional library and individual subscriptions.
Regional players
- American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT): ASNT is the primary North American NDT membership organization, publishing Materials Evaluation journal and running conference programs. While structured as a member association rather than a commercial portal, it competes for NDT professional attention, journal publishing, and conference partnerships that NDT.net also serves.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
Ndt.Net social profiles
Digital presenceNdt.Net financial estimates
Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
Ndt.Net leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles2 records
Ndt.Net funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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Ndt.Net M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
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Frequently asked questions about Ndt.Net
What does Ndt.Net do?
NDT.net GmbH & Co. KG operates an open access web portal for the non-destructive testing (NDT) industry, publishing two journals (eJNDT since 1996 and ReJNDT since 2023), archiving over 25,000 papers, hosting an online exhibition marketplace with 112 exhibitors, a professional network (MyNDT), a technical forum, and conference proceedings publishing services. The platform generates revenue through paid virtual exhibition stand subscriptions, banner advertising, sponsorships, company memberships, and dedicated email blasts to its 25,000+ newsletter subscriber base.
Is Ndt.Net a public or private company?
Ndt.Net is a private company. It is classified as family owned and is currently operating.
When was Ndt.Net founded?
Ndt.Net was founded in 1996. It employs 1 to 10 people.
Where is Ndt.Net based?
Ndt.Net is headquartered in Mayen, Germany, in the Europe region.
How does Ndt.Net make money?
Five revenue lines are on record. Virtual Exhibition Stand Subscriptions are the primary driver. The others are advertising and Sponsorship, company Membership, conference Promotion Services and professional Membership.
Who are Ndt.Net's main competitors?
Broad incumbents on record are Springer Nature, ThomasNet, Engineering360 (formerly GlobalSpec) and Elsevier NDT & E International. Inderscience Publishers is listed as an emerging player. Direct peers are Quality Magazine (BNP Media) and Inspectioneering. Others are ASM International and ASTM International. American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) is listed as a regional player.
Does Ndt.Net have an API?
No public API is recorded for Ndt.Net.
What industry is Ndt.Net in?
Ndt.Net's product category is Industry Publishing Platform. Its primary akta.pro industry code is IMAIACAI, Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) & Inspection Services. Its NAICS code is 51312 and its SIC code is 2741.