CISAM-ERNST

Who we are

Specialization and a wide range of products are the strengths and most distinctive features of CISAM-ERNST srl, a leading company in the field of hardness testing, with over 60 years of experience in research, design, and production of hardness testers.

"Always be the best partner in finding the most appropriate solutions to every need in the field of hardness testing.”

With this objective, CISAM-ERNST srl has developed a high level of specialization and an extremely wide range of products , which includes portable hardness testers, bench hardness testers, automatic, standard and specialized hardness testers.

This high specialization guaranteed by CISAM-ERNST srl is determined by its extensive experience in the development of the most advanced measurement tools. Experience which turned it into a real landmark in the hardness testing all around the world and that allows the company to create continuous innovation, able to provide solutions more and more specific and targeted.

Together with its clients, CISAM-ERNST srl developes equipment that can operate efficiently even in a complex environment, in which difficult application requirements combine with the need to provide fast, accurate and reliable results. The testers’ customization and the opportunity to have them designed, adapted, and integrated into a productions line or to provide a complete of automation, are issues that have always characterized us.

That's why we feel like more than just suppliers: whoever chooses CISAM-ERNST srl, knows that they can count on a real partner, on a consultant ready to suggest, study, and design very customized tools. A vision that is also reflected in the commitment to support and follow each client, step by step, in the search for increasingly advanced solutions. That is why we are present in every part of the world and we can count on a distribution network widely spread on five continents.

Our values

Passion, precision, and a continuous view towards the future characterize the history of CISAM-ERNST srl. Born from the genius of a great researcher and carried out with commitment and vision by his successors, CISAM-ERNST srl has been driving the research and the innovation in hardness testing for over 60 years.

CISAM-ERNST srl was born from the pioneering vision of great innovator, who created his first patent in Switzerland in 1946. Ever since, the ERNST patents have been the past and the future of the company.. Thanks to this ability to always create new solutions and to adapt them to more and more complex needs and demands, CISAM-ERNST srl has actually been growing over the years up to becoming an established leader at international level, not only in the production and distribution of hardness testers, but also in research and development of advanced testers, able to offer a concrete answer to the changing problems of industry.

"Research and innovation have always been part
of the DNA of CISAM-ERNST srl, that, today the same as yesterday,
is committed to building the future in the hardness testing"

CISAM-ERNST srl is still being guided by the family that bears the name of its founder and, then as now, is committed to solve the outstanding issues in the field of measuring the hardness of metals.

A vocation towards constant research and innovation that now, more than ever, makes CISAM-ERNST srl a forward-looking reality, specifically committed to anticipate and meet the needs in the field of hardness, constantly evolving.