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August 5, 2024
New distributor in Germany
LR Tech is proud to announce the expansion of its sales territory in the Germany with its new distributor SphereOptics. They are promoting...

July 27, 2024
LR Tech participated in the preparatory flights
Last week, LR Tech participated in the preparatory flights (engineering flights) for the NASA/NOAA WHYMSIE-SGP mission which will take...

July 27, 2024
MC-S Special Camera Systems as new agent in Netherlands
LR Tech is proud to announce appointment of MC-S Special Camera Systems as new agent in Netherlands for promoting Fourier-transform...

May 23, 2024
LR Tech appoints new agent in UK
LR Tech is proud to announce appointment of Mapping Solutions Ltd. as new agent in United Kingdom for promoting Fourier-transform infrared...

May 23, 2024
Newsletter, quarter 2, 2024
Since 2003, LR Tech offers innovative and high-performance spectro-radiometry solutions (FTIR Spectrometer) to address requirements for...

February 9, 2024
LR Tech exhibit at AMS
LR Tech participated in the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society at the Baltimore Convention Center in Maryland to...

February 7, 2024
LR Tech appoints new agent in USA
LR Tech is proud to announce appointment of Infrared Imaging, LLC. as new agent in USA for promoting VSR Spectroradiometer Fourier...

August 14, 2023
Honors received by NASA
LR Tech is pleased to share the honors received by NASA for its participation in the FireX-AQ Science mission. FIREX-AQ objective was to...

July 3, 2023
A change, an evolution
I would like to thank Mr. Carl Mercier for his professionalism and dedication to the company over the past three years. Through his...

September 10, 2022
LR Tech delivers the 2 SpIRS units to DRDC
SpIRS (Spatially-resolved InfraRed Spectrometer) is a new product, developed as per customer’s specifications, and now ready for sales to...

May 27, 2021
LR Tech register the first results from the South Korean Ministry of Environment project.
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February 24, 2021
An LR Tech instrument is now crisscrossing the China Sea!
After the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, our ASSIST II (Atmospheric Sounder by FT-IR) is now on a...

February 2, 2021
NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory acquires two ASSIST II atmospheric sounders
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) recently purchased 2 of LR Tech’s...

January 26, 2021
Ministry of Environment of South Korea acquires 3 Versatile Spectroradiometers (VSRs)
LR Tech is pleased to announce that South Korea’s Ministry of Environment has acquired 3 Versatile Spectrorardiometers (VSRs). LR...

January 14, 2021
LR Tech announces new advisory committee
LR Tech is proud to announce the formation of its advisory committee. This committee will provide us with complementary and essential...

December 9, 2020
LR Tech welcomes new instrumentation and applications specialist
LR Tech is pleased to announce that Vincent Michaud-Belleau has joined LR Tech as an Instrumentation and Applications Specialist. Vincent...

November 12, 2020
New compact interferometer for OEM application
Last August, LR Tech shipped the first series of its new compact interferometer dedicated to the integrator market and first responder...

November 9, 2020
LR Tech relocates in Lévis
The fit-out work on our 6,000 sq.ft. premises on Guillaume-Couture Boulevard is underway and should allow us to move there in mid-January...

October 19, 2020
LR Tech names new CEO
Carl Mercier to lead global sales strategy for atmospheric and defense remote sensing instruments company Lévis, September 6, 2020 – LR...

March 14, 2020
Introduction of the VSR at the 2020 Air Warefare Symposium
Last month, LR Tech attended the AFA's 2020 Air Warfare Symposium, a premier event for the aerospace and defense industry in Orlando,...

March 13, 2020
Atmospheric Sounder ASSIST-II in action at AMS 2020 in Boston
In January, LR Tech attended the 100th AMS Annual Meeting held in Boston, Massachusetts, to present our atmospheric sounder...

December 11, 2019
ASSIST atmospheric sounder spectrometer upgrade
After over 12 years of continuous operation, our team just refurbished one of the first LR Tech ASSIST atmospheric sounder spectrometer....

December 3, 2019
100th AMS Annual Meeting held in Boston
LR Tech will be attending the 100th AMS Annual Meeting held in Boston, Massachusetts, from January 12th to 16th, 2020. We will be...

September 23, 2019
Firex-AQ Implication of LR Tech
Firex-AQ Implication of LR Tech inc. into the Investigation smoke from wildfires and biomass burning NAST-I (NPOESS Airborne Sounder...

June 21, 2019
Technical support for the FIREX-AQ Mission
LR Tech is proud to provide the technical support for the July 2019 FIREX-AQ Mission The objective of FIREX-AQ is to improve understanding...

November 21, 2018
LR Tech strengthens its presence in Asia
In October 2018, LR Tech Inc. from Lévis (Quebec, Canada) showcased its products during two conferences in Asia. The topics of those...

November 20, 2018
LR Tech’s Far InfraRed Radiometer deployed
On September 3rd 2018, LR Tech Inc. from Lévis (Québec, Canada) completed the installation of a new ground-based Far InfraRed...

April 26, 2018
Product development: The Far InfraRed Radiometer deployment
On March 26, 2018, at the LR Tech facilities in Lévis, the acceptance tests of the latest system developed by LR Tech Inc., the Far...

April 11, 2018
LR Tech is now ISO 9001:2015 certified
Already considered a world leader in spectrophotometry, LR Tech is proud to announce that it is now ISO 9001: 2015 certified. With this...

January 31, 2018
LR Tech now represented in South Korea!
LR Tech inc. is pleased to annonce its new agreement with BK Instruments of South Korea for the representation of its products and...

January 30, 2018
Implementation phase of the ISO9001
In the concern of continuous improvement and quality of its products and services, LR Tech inc. is currently in the implementation phase of...

October 31, 2017
LR Tech deploys its instruments in the Canadian Arctic
LR Tech is pleased to announce that is has received a contract through the Build in Canada Innovation Program. Atmospheric Science and...

October 17, 2017
A new section about publications in our website
The LR Tech Website has a new section called Publications. In the achievements section, you will find all the publications that LR Tech...

October 17, 2017
New detectors for the DRDC's PIRATES infrared spectrometer
Last July, LR Tech delivers five new focal plane array detectors. These new detectors are intended to update and improve the PIRATES...

May 11, 2016
Nanjing Atmospheric Workshop 2016
LR Tech will be holding a workshop on atmospheric sounding in Nanjing, China, this month. The invited speaker will be Dr. William L....

May 11, 2016
Ground-based retrievals using the ASSIST
The Center for Atmospheric Science of Hampton University has released a short article on the usage of the ASSIST-II as a ground based...

April 11, 2016
2016 Baltimore SPIE exhibit
LR Tech will be present in Baltimore at the 2016 Defense + Security, Sensing Technology + Applications SPIE exhibit. We will be presenting...

March 30, 2016
UQAM Far InfraRed Radiometer (FIIR)
The Far InfraRed Radiometer (FIRR) is meant to be a breadboard for the future Thin Ice Clouds in the Far InfraRed Experiment (TICFIRE)...

June 1, 2015
SNPP-2 Arctic Validation Experiment
The SNPP Arctic airborne field campaign, jointly supported by NASA and NOAA, was conducted out of Keflavik, Iceland between 7-31 March...

May 1, 2015
2015 Baltimore SPIE exhibit
LR Tech was present in Baltimore at the 2015 Defense + Security, Sensing Technology + Applications SPIE exhibit. We were proud to share our...

February 17, 2015
LR Tech unveils its new Compact Airborne Spectro-Radiometer
LR has developed a new Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) for airborne applications. Our new compact airborne spectro-radiometer is a...

November 17, 2014
LR Tech welcomes the VSR to its instrument family
LR Tech is proud to announce the launch of its new product; the Versatile Spectro-Radiometer (VSR). The Versatile Spectroradiometer (VSR)...

October 14, 2014
New Website Released!
LR Tech is happy to announce the release of its new website! Its new design reflects our lean and agile way of thinking. We hope you will...

October 8, 2014
Assist at Sea
In November of 2013 one of the new sea-going ASSIST instruments built for the University of Miami Remote Sensing Group was installed on the...

September 17, 2014
LR Tech releases a new version of the ASSIST-II instrument
At LR Tech, we constantly aim to enhance our products and make it easier and more efficient for our customers to use. With this goal in...