Reduce costs, improve reliability.

As technology continues to advance, it is essential that industries keep up with the latest in technical innovations to maintain their competitive edge. Radiometric process control measurement is no exception. If your business relies on maintaining good control of your process, you know the importance of accurate and reliable measurements of plant parameters such as density and level. It’s essential to have instruments that can continue to perform these measurements in a cost-effective manner without compromising the quality of your process output. If you use nuclear gauges to control your process, we can help.

Berthold has over 70 years of experience in radiometric process measurements. We are experts in radiation measurement technology, but our focus is always on the needs of our customers. One need we are keenly aware of is the need for support amongst nuclear gauge users. One of Berthold’s main competitors in the US recently announced they will no longer support their nuclear gauges, leaving a lot of customers in a bit of a bind. But we are here.

Berthold has a varied product portfolio, specialized knowledge, and extensive experience in developing solutions for various industries and applications. One of these solutions is our Detector Retrofit Program, which allows users to extend the life of their existing radiation sources while improving measurement reliability. With Berthold’s highly sensitive detectors, your measurement's signal to noise ratio will be better, even using your old source, resulting in superior measurement performance compared to our competitors’ systems.

Berthold detectors can be retrofitted onto your existing measurements where the radiation source activity has decayed to a point where it is too weak to work with your installed, old detector design. With thousands of systems installed around the world, Berthold has the products, the knowledge, and the experience to specify a new detector that will bring your old, failing system back to life, And you can keep your existing radiation source.

This concept offers many benefits:

• extending the life of existing but aged sources
• managing overall site source activity without having to dispose of sources
• improving measurement stability and reliability
• having a mitigation plan in place well before your measurement quality degrades

Berthold detectors have twice the sensitivity of the competition, twice the source life, and twice the resolution. They offer the best reliability and stability, reduced maintenance costs, easy installation on any brand of source holder, and they only require calibration once. Our technology doesn't drift.

The benefits of Berthold's Detector Retrofit Program are clear. You'll reduce the cost of nuclear source ownership, handling, and disposal. Source replacement is costly and time-consuming, and disposing of a source does not always work towards a reduction in site source activity if you have to replace it to make your measurement work. By utilizing Berthold's high sensitivity detectors, the need for frequent source replacement is eliminated, and measurement performance is improved, at a much lower cost.

Berthold’s radiation measurement experts are committed to providing the best possible solution for our process control customers, even in the most challenging of applications. With local sales and technical support, inventory and a global network of highly qualified experts, Berthold Technologies is always ready to assist you with the best possible solution for your measurement needs. Please contact us to let us know how we can help you.