About Us
S-DH is a spin-off company from the University of Heidelberg. Founded in the year 2000 with the aim of enhancing neutron science with better neutron guides. And still this is what drives us to research, innovate and offer solutions to our customers.
Along this path, our biggest asset is the experience and reliability of our staff members.Experience based on 26 years R&D and optimisation are made available to you in our neutron guides.
Our high level of vertical integration ensures the first-class quality of our products. For example, we do have a complete glass workshop, from grinding on big plane grinding machines, over lapping to several polishing machines - all made in house - all made in Germany.
For good reason, we have always some tons of Borkron glass in stock, to be more independent from glass manufacturer.
We invest in new production machines and new developments - for the benefit of our customers and the environment.
For example, we do use a 68 kW peak solar plant and a 150 kWh battery storage for the manufacturing of neutron guides.
We machine glass and metal using high-precision milling machines: we have a 3-axis, a 4-axis, and a 5-axis machine. Our largest milling machine has a cutting length of 3 meters.
We operate 5 coating systems for supermirrors and 10B4C coatings. The largest system has a coating area of 2.6 x 1.1 m².
Since 2023, we have also been manufacturing the vacuum housings completely in-house. With this state-of-the-art laser welding system, we can perform both semi-automatic and manual welds. We can weld Steel, Aluminum and Stainless Steel. After welding, the flanges can be reworked on our large machining center.
Extensive machining capabilities require extensive measurement capabilities. To this end, we have a state-of-the-art Renishaw coordinate measuring machine with a 3-meter measuring range, a laser tracker, two X-ray diffractometers, an Ametek white-light interferometer, and an LT-Ultra interferometer.
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