IKS applies laboratory expertise to motorcycling

Sets up racing team and uses XiltriX to monitor racing performance of rider Mervyn Verploegen

IKS International, a Netherlands-based laboratory monitoring specialist and autoclave supplier, has stepped outside its science comfort zone to set up a motorcycle racing team. Rising young Dutch star, Mervyn Verploegen, will be the team’s rider in the Dutch National Talent Cup.

According to IKS md Stephen Tierney, this is not just the usual sponsorship arrangement: IKS will be applying the expertise accumulated in more than 20 years of laboratory monitoring to improve racing performance.

‘We’re delighted to be able to help this young talent advance his sporting career and to support his family, who are very much involved,’ he said. ‘Unusually in such situations, though, we can also contribute technically by applying the technology employed in our XiltriX laboratory monitoring systems to measuring parameters such as tyre temperature and pressure that have a significant impact on racing performance.’

He added: ‘Motor racing is pure adrenaline, but control is vital: our traditional markets are rather more conservative and sometimes slow moving, but control is every bit as important. We like to think that being involved in two such different environments will help develop the progressive and innovative philosophy that will drive our company forward.’

IKS International, based in Rosmalen, near 's-Hertogenbosch, supplies advanced products and services to clinical, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and microbiology laboratories worldwide.

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