Applus+
Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona area), Spain
Spanish-headquartered global TIC group providing industrial asset inspection, non-destructive testing, and technical consultancy across the oil and gas value chain, including onshore and offshore upstream, midstream, and downstream pressure equipment work. Worldwide testing, inspection and certification group whose civil infrastructure services line covers bridge, road, rail and tunnel inspection, technical assistance and construction supervision, including UAV-based infrastructure inspection and fiber-optic structural monitoring. Applus+ is a global testing, inspection, and certification group that provides offshore and maritime non-destructive testing (NDT), inspection, and maritime certification services, including hull and jetty inspection work for vessels and harbor infrastructure. Its NDT capability grew substantially through the 2006 acquisition of Dutch NDT specialist Röntgen Technische Dienst (RTD).
- Headquarters
- Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona area), Spain
- Founded
- 1996
- Website
- www.applus.com
Notable facts
- Created in Barcelona in 1996 within the former Agbar Group before later becoming an independent listed company
- Operates in more than 65 countries with over 25,000 employees
- Reported revenue of roughly $2.3 billion
- Operates in more than 65 countries with over 25,000 employees, per the company's public materials.
- Was incorporated in 1996 in Barcelona, later absorbing the LGAI testing laboratory (originally founded 1907) and launching the global Applus+ brand in 2003.
- Publicly describes use of digital twin and AI-based defect detection alongside conventional bridge/tunnel inspection methods.
- Origins trace to Agbar Automotive, set up in Barcelona in 1996; listed on the Spanish stock market in 2014
- Acquired Röntgen Technische Dienst (RTD), a Netherlands-based NDT and oil-and-gas inspection specialist founded in 1937, in 2006
- Headquartered on the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona campus in Bellaterra, Barcelona
Service categories
Sources. This profile is compiled from public reference data, WebSearch-verified againstsource 1 · source 2 · source 3. Data as of 2026-07-11. See methodology.
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