LYNRED manufactures both cooled and uncooled microbolometers covering all infrared bands and is Europe’s leading supplier of this type of technology.

The Lynred workforce numbers 1,000 and the company is focused on several markets: defense, space, security and surveillance, leisure, industry and automotive.

Because of Teszner's significant experience, Sofradir quickly became the largest producer of MCT products in Europe due primarily to the research transferred to it from CEA-Leti.

The company also participated in the production of high performance infrared common modules (SADA II) for the US Army as well as 2D staring arrays mainly for use with missiles.

In January 2019, Sofradir and its subsidiary Ulis confirmed their participation in the Nano 2022 program, the French component of the European IPCEI plan on nanoelectronics.

The company currently develops and commercializes several IR technologies: microbolometers, InGaAs and MCT (Mercury Cadmium Telluride, also abbreviated as HgCdTe).

In 2023, Lynred invested 85 million euros in its new Campus infrared technology production site, to meet the growing needs of both the military and automotive markets.

Second-generation IR detectors have a high level of sophistication because they require the integration of readout electronics on the Focal Plane Array (FPA) as well as signal processing.

Sofradir is also advancing the development of third-generation IR detectors made from MCT layers using the Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) techniques.