Every year, Technisch Weekblad (TW) publishes its R&D Top 50, highlighting the most innovative companies in the Netherlands. We’re proud to announce that Demcon has secured a 21st place this year!

Twinning participaties has invested in Curix to further develop our technology. Twinning is an investor who focusses on not only creating financial return, but also social return. Peter Frinking, managing director Curix adds: With Twinning's investment, we are working towards the first clinical evaluations. Twinning is not just an anonymous financier, but is genuinely involved and interested. Twinning published an article about our partnership.

Last summer, we were visited by Douwe de Vries, a reporter from Overijssel Onderweg. Throughout the season, he toured several companies in the province to learn about their sustainable mobility policies. True to the theme, he cycled all the way from the provincial government building in Zwolle to our headquarters in Enschede. During his visit, he interviewed Emma van Geel (Manager Corporate Sustainability) and Mika Bakker (Communications Specialist). You can read the result below.

From 20 to 22 January 2026, Demcon high-tech systems will attend the SPIE Photonics West exhibition in San Francisco, the leading event for photonics technologies and applications in areas such as lasers, optical systems, imaging, sensing, and precision solutions. Find us at booth #5305 in the Holland Pavilion to learn more about our integrated approach merging optics, mechanics, and control technologies to deliver robust, high-precision systems for photonics applications.

After more than a decade at Radboud University, completing her bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD in physics, Elze felt it was time for a change. “I wanted to experience the working world outside of academia,” she says. “Preferably at a larger company, where I could explore different roles and really find out what suits me.”

Today in Assen, provincial deputies Bennema (Groningen) and Meeuwissen (Drenthe), together with council member Rink from the municipality of Emmen, awarded a subsidy of €14,927,479.42 to the project SORTED, a consortium of fourteen partners led by the Sympany foundation. The grant was provided by the ‘Samenwerkingsverband Noord-Nederland’ and originates from the European Just Transition Fund (JTF), including €6 million in co-financing from the Ministry of Economic Affairs.