IRIS Instruments: Activity sets a new record in 2025!

High-power transmitters (12,000 watts, 3,000 volts) operated in series in Peru. © Jesus Garcia de Arce Geofisicos

Building on an exceptional year in 2024, IRIS Instruments maintained this momentum in 2025, setting a new turnover record. Alongside this commercial success, the company completed the second phase of its expansion project. Having adapted its infrastructure to support its growth, it now boasts industrial facilities that are fully suited to its future ambitions.

IRIS Instruments’ international presence has been significantly stepped up, expanding from 50 to 62 countries. While the United States remains the largest single market, more than half of the company’s turnover is now generated in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. This expansion relies on the mobility of its geophysical experts: through their active participation in major international conferences and events, they can share cutting-edge know-how while drawing on feedback from customers and partners on every continent.

Strategy based on innovation

To stay one step ahead, IRIS Instruments continues to place innovation at the heart of its strategy, while pressing on with its research and development efforts. Each new feature is designed to leverage the efficiency of teams in the field while ensuring that the data collected are faultless. The priority is to offer customers solutions that are fully aligned with their specific issues. For IRIS Instruments, the main challenge lies in designing a unique product capable of simultaneously meeting the distinct requirements of both academic research and the private sector.

In 2025, the launch of new product ranges – Terra resistivity meters and receivers, and TIP high-power transmitters – generated sustained growth, supplementing rather than eating into sales of established product lines. In this regard, the FullWaver unitary receivers also performed impressively. These devices – designed for acquiring extended profiles and 3D models of resistivity and induced polarisation – had already proved to be a great success in 2024, and sales in 2025 exceeded the previous year’s performance.

IRIS Instruments’ success is based, above all, on the unwavering commitment of its in-house teams and its network of partners, suppliers and representatives. These human synergies form the basis of the company’s stellar performance.

The Syscal Terra next-generation resistivity meter, used by RDCL in New Zealand. © Alistair Stronach