Kai Vogel and Andreas Sandner founded Viprotron 20 years ago with a vision: creating a high-quality, reliable and precise solution for quality control in the flat glass industry.
Viprotron started at the Technology and Innovation Centre (TIZ) of Darmstadt University, in Germany, as a two-man show. Kai and Andreas spent countless hours at the workbench and writing code on the computer. In 2004, their hard work paid off, and they were able to put their first glass quality inspection scanner into operation at Glas Dreisbusch.
20 years and many milestones later
Viprotron is a global company head-quartered in Germany with a subsidiary in the United States. The company now employs over 40 people worldwide.
Viprotron GmbH is 100 percent privately owned by the two founders and has always stood for quality scanners “made and developed in Germany.”
The company has long outgrown the premises of TIZ and the start-up label. Today, the company is head-quartered in Pfungstadt, near Darmstadt, in the heart of Germany’s high-tech centre.
To this day, Viprotron maintains close cooperation with the Technical University of Darmstadt, where it all began. The expanded and diversified product portfolio of inspection systems enables quality control of the entire production and processing process of flat glass.
Viprotron has presented many technical innovations to its customers over the past 20 years. The company is committed to staying up to date with the latest technology, market requirements and developments.
Customers have repeatedly approached the company with specific problems. Viprotron’s team has always embraced these challenges as exciting opportunities and approached problem-solving with highly innovative work methods and creativity. Employees embody the company spirit and always put customers first. This has been the foundation of building such strong and long-lasting customer relationships.
