Lyncis
Lyncis builds laser-based LIBS analyzers that read the elemental composition of ore on a moving conveyor or slurry inside a pipe, feeding results straight to plant SCADA in real time with no radioactive source involved.
What is Lyncis?
Lyncis is an instrument maker rather than a piece of software. UAB Lyncis, registered in Vilnius in December 2016, designs, manufactures, calibrates and commissions industrial analyzers built on Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy. A pulsed laser is focused onto the material; the spot turns to plasma; as the plasma cools it emits light; a spectrometer converts that light into a wavelength spectrum, and the concentration of each element is calculated from it. The shot repeats hundreds of times per minute, so a reading describes the bulk of the stream rather than one point on it, and results reach the plant control system every few minutes.
Three products share that engine. The Cross-belt Analyzer sits above a running conveyor and reads bulk material with no sampling and no sample preparation. SlurryView measures feed, concentrate or tailings directly in the pipe and can be coupled to a third-party multiplexer, so a single instrument covers several streams. The Express Analyzer handles a collected sample in roughly three to five minutes, above a small conveyor after a feed hopper, on an X-Y table holding about 200 ml, or on a flat moving surface; crushing to 10 mm is generally enough, which removes the two to twenty-four hours a conventional laboratory preparation would have cost.
Two claims carry the commercial argument. LIBS emits no gamma, neutron or X-ray radiation, so no government licence, no permit and no radiation-handling staff are required. And LIBS reads light elements — lithium, carbon, silicon, magnesium, aluminium, phosphorus, boron — that XRF cannot measure at all.
The company describes its calibration work as combining newer analytical approaches with traditional chemometric methods, and the homepage credits advanced data analytics and machine learning with keeping measurements accurate and stable across the life of an installation. That is the whole of what the site says about its algorithms; no page is devoted to them.
Installations are reported across Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, India, South Korea, Turkey and Brazil, backed by sixteen representatives worldwide. Lyncis holds ISO 9001:2015 certification covering the design, manufacture, calibration and commissioning of industrial LIBS analyzers.
What it does
- Measure the elemental composition of bulk material directly on a running conveyor belt, continuously and automatically
- Measure element grades in slurry, brine or solution inside the pipe, across feed, concentrate and tailings
- Send composition data to plant SCADA in real time so the process is corrected as it runs rather than afterwards
- Sort ore by grade, reject off-spec material and build stockpiles to a target composition
- Dose water, fluxes and flotation reagents against live readings instead of an assumed feed
- Analyze a collected sample in three to five minutes without lengthy laboratory preparation
- Track derived parameters such as ash, calorific value, moisture and volatile matter on coal
When to use Lyncis / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Lyncis is the right fit.
When to use Lyncis
- Mineral processing and metallurgy engineers who steer a plant on elemental grade rather than on laboratory results that arrive hours later
- Cement, lime, coal and fertilizer producers who need light elements such as silicon, magnesium, aluminium or phosphorus that XRF cannot measure
- Plant and process control engineers wiring continuous composition data into SCADA through MODBUS, Profibus, OPC UA or a 4-20 mA loop
- Health and safety managers who want to drop the licences, permits and radiation-handling staff that gamma, neutron or X-ray gauges require
- Operations running several product lines, where an Express Analyzer replaces a dedicated instrument on every single line
When not to use Lyncis
- Anyone looking for software: this is heavy industrial hardware that has to be engineered onto a conveyor or a pipe
- Buyers who need a published price, since nothing is costed on the site and every enquiry goes through a sales conversation
- Teams expecting a free trial or a self-service sign-up, neither of which exists here
- Developers hoping for a web API, a mobile app or a SaaS console: none of the three is offered
- Laboratories after a general-purpose bench instrument, rather than an analyzer aimed at industrial material streams
How to use Lyncis
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Get in touch through the contact form, by email or by phone, describing the material stream and the process problem to be solved
- Go through an analytical consultation in which Lyncis assesses your material and the quality standards you work to
- Have trial laboratory samples analyzed to establish what continuous online analysis could deliver on your feed
- Agree the mechanical design of the analyzer mounting on the specific conveyor, pipe or sampling point
- Plan the electrical supply and compressed air, and choose the plant IT link: MODBUS, Profibus, OPC UA, TCP/IP or analogue 4-20 mA
- Have the site assessed and the equipment physically installed and set up
- Run a dynamic calibration in live conditions on your own existing material streams, rather than on a generic reference
- Train the site personnel who will operate and check the instrument day to day
- Take the readings into SCADA and start driving grade sorting, blending and reagent dosage from them
- Optionally sign a Product Support Agreement for remote parameter monitoring, remote calibration adjustment and scheduled preventive maintenance
Pros & Cons
Pros
- No radioactive source at all, which removes licensing, permits, transport constraints and dedicated radiation-handling personnel
- Reads light elements that XRF simply cannot measure, widening the range of processes it can control
- Removes sampling and sample preparation, and with them a slow, laborious and error-prone step
- Results in real time instead of the two to twenty-four hours a laboratory route can take
- ISO 9001:2015 certification issued in the company's own name, with a certificate number and validity period
- Sixteen representatives worldwide and a structured service offering covering consultation, commissioning and ongoing support
- Three complementary formats covering the belt, the pipe and one-off sample analysis
Cons
- No price is published anywhere, so the scale of the investment cannot be judged without contacting sales
- No terms and conditions, no privacy policy and no legal notice are published at all, an absence confirmed by probing those addresses
- Nothing is stated about who owns the measurement data, how long anything is kept, or where it is hosted
- Deployment is an industrial integration project involving mechanical, electrical, compressed air and control system work
- No free trial and no self-service route: every engagement starts with a sales conversation
- The artificial intelligence element is asserted but never described, amounting to two sentences across the whole site
- No mobile application and no web API, so the data path is the plant control system or nothing
Pricing & Plans
No price is published. Lyncis does not operate a free plan or a free trial, and no pricing page exists on the site; requesting one returns the ordinary error page. The analyzers are capital equipment sold on quotation, so the entry point depends on the product, the installation and the scope of engineering work agreed. The figures that do appear on the site measure something else entirely: the amounts quoted on the EU projects page, a maximum eligible expenditure of 294,001.00 EUR with up to 147,000.50 EUR of European Regional Development Fund support, belong to a grant-funded export development project and are in no sense a product price. The savings described elsewhere, such as the two to twenty-four hours of sample preparation avoided, are customer benefits rather than costs. Prospective buyers should expect a scoped quotation.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Lyncis handles your data.
GDPR overview
There is no mention of the GDPR anywhere on the site. Lyncis is established in Vilnius, Lithuania, so the regulation applies to it as a matter of law, but the company neither claims compliance nor denies it. No privacy policy, no cookie policy, no data processing agreement, no data protection officer and no list of subprocessors are published, and the contact form collects a name, company, job title, country, email address and message without stating a purpose, a legal basis or a retention period. No Article 27 representative is named, which is consistent with an EU-based controller that does not need one. Read this as a documentation gap rather than as evidence of non-compliance: the obligation exists regardless, but the site gives a visitor nothing to verify.
Who owns the data?
Nothing is published on this point. Lyncis puts no terms and conditions, no privacy policy and no legal notice on its website, and probing those addresses returns the site's ordinary error page, so the absence is established rather than merely unconfirmed. No document states who owns the measurement data an analyzer produces, what Lyncis may do with it, or whether anything leaves the plant. What the pages do describe is the physical arrangement: the instrument is installed on the customer's site and sends its readings to the customer's SCADA. A support agreement adds continuous remote monitoring of operating parameters and remote calibration adjustment by Lyncis, but the terms governing that access are never set out.
Reuse rights
The site carries no terms and conditions, so there is no published rule on reuse. Nothing grants or restricts what a customer may do with the elemental readings the analyzer generates, and nothing describes any Lyncis claim over them. In practice the measurements are produced on the customer's premises and delivered into the customer's own control system, which suggests the data stays with the operator, but that is an inference from the architecture and not a commitment made anywhere in writing. The optional support agreement gives Lyncis engineers remote visibility of operating parameters and the ability to adjust calibration remotely, without stating what is transmitted, retained or reused. Anyone who needs certainty here should obtain it contractually.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Nothing is published about data hosting. The site has no privacy policy, no terms and no security or trust page, so no hosting country, region or jurisdiction is ever named, and no subprocessor is disclosed. What can be said factually is architectural rather than contractual: the analyzer is equipment installed on the customer's own site, and its readings are delivered into the customer's SCADA system, which places the measurement path inside the plant. The only remote function described is the optional support agreement, under which Lyncis monitors operating parameters and adjusts calibration remotely; where that traffic terminates is not stated. One trap is worth flagging: the lyncis.lt website itself resolves to Cloudflare infrastructure on a United States anycast address, but that describes the hosting of a marketing site and says nothing whatsoever about where any customer or measurement data might reside. Buyers who need a jurisdictional answer will have to obtain it directly.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Lyncis.
- The site publishes no terms, no privacy policy and no legal notice at all, so ownership of measurement data, retention and hosting are entirely undocumented and must be settled contractually
- A Product Support Agreement grants Lyncis engineers continuous remote visibility of operating parameters and remote calibration adjustment on a live installation, without any published terms governing that access
- Claims of more than fifteen years of proven technology and more than eighteen years of team experience sit alongside a legal entity registered only in December 2016; the seniority belongs to the people and the technique, not to the company
- The main contact address sits on lyncis.org while the site is lyncis.lt, and three of the five published addresses are hidden behind Cloudflare obfuscation, so a quick reading of the page can miss them
- The representatives page lists fourteen email addresses belonging to independent distributors; they are third parties and should not be mistaken for Lyncis contacts
- A European Regional Development Fund grant of up to 147,000.50 EUR appears on the site and is easily misread as investor funding; it is a public subsidy for export development, not a fundraising round
- Trusting a continuously running analyzer to drive dosage and grade sorting concentrates real financial risk in one instrument, so plants should keep an independent laboratory check rather than let the skill of manual verification lapse
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
High, and closer to a plant project than an installation. Expect mechanical design of the analyzer mounting, an electrical supply, compressed air, and control system integration over MODBUS, Profibus, OPC UA, TCP/IP or 4-20 mA, followed by a site assessment, physical installation, a dynamic calibration on your own live material streams and operator training. Lyncis performs this work as a service. Two things lighten the load: no radiation licensing or handling competence is needed, and routine upkeep is limited to filter changes and simple cleaning by site staff. The Express Analyzer is markedly simpler, shipping with ready-to-use calibration algorithms.
Behind Lyncis
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Frequently asked questions
What is LIBS and how does the measurement actually work?
Is there any radiation risk to plant personnel?
Does the material need to be sampled or prepared first?
Which elements can it measure?
How do the results reach the process control system?
What maintenance does the equipment need?
How much does an analyzer cost?
Which industries is it used in?
Is the company certified?
How long does an express analysis take?
Should you pick Lyncis?
Lyncis is a credible, narrow and unusually well-evidenced piece of industrial instrumentation. The technical case holds together: LIBS genuinely reads light elements that XRF cannot, and doing away with the radioactive source removes a real regulatory and staffing burden rather than a theoretical one. The company is nine years old, holds an ISO 9001:2015 certificate issued in its own name with a verifiable number and validity window, and supports installations through sixteen representatives across four continents. The three-product range is coherent, covering the belt, the pipe and the one-off sample without overlapping.
The reservations are almost entirely about what is not published. There is no price, no pricing page and no indication of order of magnitude. More striking, the site carries no terms and conditions, no privacy policy and no legal notice whatsoever, so nothing is stated about ownership of measurement data, retention, hosting or the terms under which Lyncis engineers hold remote access to a running installation. For a supplier selling into plants that take security seriously, that silence is worth raising in negotiation.
Prospective buyers should also calibrate their expectations about the artificial intelligence in this product. Machine learning and advanced data analytics are credited with measurement stability, and the calibration work is described as blending modern approaches with chemometrics, but that is the extent of it: two sentences across seventeen pages, with no page devoted to the algorithms. The intelligence here is embedded in a measurement chain, not sold as a capability in its own right.
Treat this as a capital equipment purchase with a long engineering lead-in, not as a tool to try out. Bring your own samples to one of the trade shows Lyncis attends, and get the contractual questions answered in writing.
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