The Quality Assurance Specialists in Metal Packaging

Innosen — short for Innovative Sensors — designs and manufactures sensors and quality assurance systems for the metal packaging industry. From detectors that protect welders on high-speed can lines to laboratory gauges that verify coating integrity, our equipment helps canmakers in more than 70 countries minimize downtime, reduce spoilage, and ship cans their customers are willing to pay for.

OUR TEAM

WHO WE ARE

Innosen was established in 2012. However, the expertise behind it has been developing inside metal packaging for more than 40 years. Our founder helped bring some of the first inline quality sensors to canmaking. Among them were the double sheet detector and the original Hoverprobe®. As a result, that engineering lineage still runs through every product we build today.

Metal packaging quality assurance built in-house

We also design and manufacture our own equipment in Premià de Mar (Barcelona), Spain and in Manila, Philippines. Because design and production sit under one roof, the engineers who build a sensor also specify, calibrate and support it. Therefore we can adapt equipment to a customer’s line, rather than the other way around. Meanwhile, four offices — Spain, Hong Kong, the Philippines and the United States — keep support close to the plants we serve.

Metal packaging quality assurance across every can format

Canmakers in more than 70 countries use our detection systems, laboratory gauges and QA software across many formats. For example: 3-piece welded cans, ends, aerosols, tubes, caps and closures, crown corks, DRD cans and drums and pails. In addition, we work upstream in coil handling and lacquering and printing.

Finally, if you are working on a specific defect, line speed or coating specification, talk to our engineers. First, tell us what you need to control on the line or in the lab. Then we will tell you whether we have the right sensor for it.

WHAT WE DO

On The Line

Detection systems help canmakers catch production risks such as double sheets, skewed sheets, and missing lacquer. In other words, problems surface before they cause downtime, spoilage or customer complaints.

For instance, these sensors sit directly in the press, on the welder or on the conveyor. Moreover, they keep working at production speed in oil, dust and vibration. In fact, a single sheet fed twice can stop a line or damage tooling. Therefore the payback is usually measured in avoided downtime rather than in scrap. See the full range for 3-piece welded can lines.

In The LABORATORY

Enamel raters, coating thickness gauges, UV loggers, and test adapters help QA teams verify coating integrity with measurable results.

That is, the aim is repeatability: the same test, the same sample geometry, the same number every shift. In addition, our adapters and stands cover ends, caps, flat sheets, aerosols, tubes and capsules. As a result, a laboratory can standardize on one gauge instead of improvising a fixture for every format. Browse the complete quality assurance range.

IN YOUR DATA

With IS860 CoatPro™, IS810 EnamelPro™ and Innolytix® IS1100, quality measurements are collected and reviewed in one place. In turn, those numbers support better process decisions.

Instead of a paper log, readings go straight from the gauge into one record. Therefore a trend is visible while the batch is still running, not after a complaint. Furthermore, the same data supports audits, customer specifications and internal process capability reviews. In short, that is what turns a set of gauges into a quality system.

OUR STORY

Innosen was built by people who learned quality assurance where it actually happens: on canmaking lines. That production-floor experience — decades of it across our team — still shapes how we design equipment today: robust enough for the production floor, precise enough for the QA lab, and simple enough to run without a specialist.

We grow the same way we started: by solving problems canmakers bring to us. That approach has produced genuine firsts — the IS670 Missing Side Seam Lacquer Detector, the first of its kind in the market — and kept us refining proven tools across generations, like the IS9651 Hoverprobe® II film weight measurement gauge. Under the leadership of our President, Luc Nelen, that customer-problem-first philosophy remains the company’s engineering compass.

“Production does not mean just making loads of cans. They need to be cans that your customers are willing to accept — willing to pay for.”

Luc Nelen

President, Innosen

WHAT WE STAND FOR

Quality without compromise. We build the tools that guard our customers’ quality — our own standards can’t be lower than theirs.
Honesty, integrity, and fairness in how we conduct business — with employees, customers, suppliers, and shareholders alike.

Innovation with a purpose. Every product we develop answers a real production problem brought to us by a real canmaker.
Service that exceeds expectations. Sensors are only as good as the support behind them.