Cordouan Technologies SAS is a French manufacturer of scientific instrumentation founded in September 2007 through a technology transfer from the French Institute of Petroleum (IFPEN). Based in Pessac (Bordeaux’s Optics and Photonics cluster), the company specializes in the engineering, assembly, and commercialization of optical instruments dedicated to the physico-chemical characterization of nanoparticles, nanomaterials, and colloidal suspensions.
Cordouan’s analytical instruments are 100% designed and manufactured in France and are deployed in more than 30 countries across prominent academic research institutes and multinational industrial laboratories, including TotalEnergies, Solvay/Rhodia, L’Oréal, Dow Chemical, STMicroelectronics, and CNRS.