Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence
In 2025, ATEQ proudly celebrates 50 years of innovation, growth, and global leadership in leak testing and quality control solutions. What began in 1975 as a small French engineering company has evolved into a worldwide group with offices in more than 40 countries, serving over 5,000 customers and maintaining more than 300 000 testers in operation around the world.
This milestone is more than just a celebration of time: it’s a recognition of people, partnerships, and perseverance. For five decades, ATEQ has combined engineering excellence, reliability, and customer commitment to become a trusted partner for manufacturers across every continent.
“We are proud of how far we’ve come from one innovation to a global standard. Our success is built on trust, teamwork, and a shared vision to make manufacturing cleaner, safer, and more efficient,” says the ATEQ leadership team.
Looking forward, ATEQ continues to invest in sustainable testing technologies, ensuring that the next 50 years are just as pioneering as the last! Discover ATEQ Group!
1. Understanding Our Clients’ Challenges
Before turning to ATEQ’s leak testing solutions, many manufacturers struggle with production inefficiencies, quality control bottlenecks, and costly leak-related defects. In critical industries such as automotive, aerospace, medical, and electronics, even a microscopic leak can have serious consequences. The challenge is achieving maximum speed with uncompromising accuracy. Moreover, many clients are not always familiar with what non-destructive leak testing involves or how different testing technologies and solutions apply to their specific production needs. To address this, ATEQ not only provides advanced equipment but also offers daily support, training, and education to help customers fully understand, implement, and optimize leak testing within their processes. New challenges are also facing for ATEQ Group such as the development of data centers, the hydrogen market and the HVAC application!
2. Defining the Productivity Problem
Our collaboration always starts with a comprehensive diagnostic phase built on close partnership with our clients. ATEQ experts work hand in hand with production and quality teams to deeply analyze not only the manufacturing process but also the fundamental questions surrounding leak testing and sealing integrity. We help customers understand what leak testing really measures, why it matters, and what risks are involved when leaks go undetected, from product malfunction and safety hazards to costly recalls and reputational damage.
During this phase, our engineers perform a detailed study of the customer’s production environment, materials, and testing requirements to identify inefficiencies, whether caused by outdated methods, calibration drift, or unnecessary downtime. This in-depth technical and risk-based approach enables ATEQ to design and recommend the most effective, customized testing solutions that optimize both performance and productivity while ensuring long-term product reliability and compliance with industry standards.
3. Removing Barriers to Efficiency
ATEQ instruments are engineered for seamless integration into automated lines, performing fast, accurate, and repeatable tests. Our top priority is to optimize each customer’s production flow while fully respecting their cycle times, productivity goals, and operational constraints. We understand that every second counts on a manufacturing line, and our solutions are designed to deliver high performance without interrupting or slowing down production.
By replacing manual or inconsistent methods, our testers reduce false rejects, shorten cycle times, and increase throughput — delivering measurable efficiency without sacrificing precision or reliability. Whether implemented in high-speed automotive assembly lines or delicate medical device manufacturing, ATEQ systems ensure that quality control becomes a strength, not a bottleneck, allowing our customers to achieve both speed and accuracy in their daily operations.
4. Innovation Driving Measurable Results
Innovation is at the core of ATEQ’s DNA. Our R&D teams, located across the globe, work tirelessly to develop cutting-edge leak testing devices and advanced monitoring systems for quality control. This international network of research and development centers enables us to stay close to our customers, understand regional market needs, and continuously evolve our technologies to meet new industrial challenges. ATEQ also operates dedicated intellectual property offices where we protect and manage our technological breakthroughs. Each year, we file a significant number of patents covering innovations in testing principles, measurement accuracy, automation, and digital integration. These patented technologies reflect our commitment to pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in leak testing. Through this global R&D ecosystem and our culture of innovation, ATEQ transforms leak testing into a real-time, data-driven process that empowers manufacturers with actionable insights to enhance quality, reliability, and productivity continuously
.5. Seamless Implementation
From audit to installation, ATEQ’s technical teams ensure a smooth transition from problem recognition to solution implementation. We provide full support, training, and calibration assistance, minimizing downtime and ensuring rapid return on investment.
6. Tailored Solutions for Every Industry
Every industry has unique requirements, and ATEQ has developed the expertise and flexibility to stay ahead of the curve in each one. Our modular systems can be customized for applications in automotive, aerospace, electronics, medical, or hydrogen energy testing — adapting to every customer’s production needs, technical standards, and communication protocols. ATEQ is also proud to be a pioneer in supporting emerging sectors and anticipating technological shifts. We invest early in understanding and designing solutions for new industries where leak integrity and precision testing are becoming critical, such as electric mobility, hydrogen fuel systems, data centers, and HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning). These markets demand increasingly high performance and reliability, and ATEQ’s expertise ensures we are ready before the demand peaks. By maintaining close relationships with global leaders and start-ups alike, we stay at the forefront of innovation and provide tailored, future-ready testing solutions that help our clients secure efficiency, safety, and sustainability in their growing markets.
7. Measuring Productivity Gains
Our clients consistently report tangible productivity gains following the integration of ATEQ solutions. These improvements are reflected in their ability to maintain and often increase, production cadence without compromising quality or precision. By ensuring testing keeps pace with manufacturing speeds, ATEQ helps prevent costly production slowdowns or recalls, reinforcing both reliability and customer trust.
Beyond the numbers, these productivity gains are evidenced by key operational outcomes: production targets met or exceeded, absence of product recalls, and consistently high customer satisfaction. Each of these results demonstrates how ATEQ technology transforms testing into a strategic asset ensuring smooth, efficient, and dependable production performance day after day
9. Building Long-Term Efficiency and Sustainability
At ATEQ, our commitment extends far beyond delivering a tool: we design for performance, reliability, and sustainability. Every product is engineered with eco-innovation in mind — from low energy consumption to modular upgrades, remote diagnostics, and simplified calibration. We consistently integrate eco‐design principles into our development cycle, aiming to reduce resource use, minimize waste, and extend equipment life. Our management system, aligned with the standards ISO 14001, ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 17025 for laboratories, underpins this effort by promoting continuous improvement of environmental and quality performance. By helping our customers prevent leaks, maintain integrity and avoid costly failures, we actively contribute to waste reduction, lower emissions and less resource consumption — supporting their sustainability goals as well as our own. Our approach results in a dual benefit: customers gain a lower total cost of ownership, increased uptime, and higher reliability, while also taking meaningful steps toward environmental responsibility and operational excellence.
