ITOPP designs, develops and manufactures a line of generators to perform isentropic compression testing of materials. 

As the only company in the world with this expertise, ITOPP is able to precisely study the behavior of materials subjected to extreme dynamic pressures, in particular the acceleration of projectiles to speeds in excess of 10 km/s, speeds inaccessible by other experimental means.

Due to its high-performing equipment and technologies, ITOPP is able to conduct research on the impacts of hyper-speeds that can be applied to the following fields:

• Defense & Security: Development of armor
• Space: Impact of micrometeorites on satellites
• The physics of explosives
• Materials research: Determining equations of state at extreme pressures (around a million bar)

ITOPP has developed a device to simulate the effects of direct and indirect lightning strikes. The use of this simulator can be adapted to fit a variety of specifications.

ITOPP designs and manufactures ready-to-use test equipment, in line with existing standards or built to meet specific customer performance requirements (electrical, environmental or requirements pertaining to size or mobility).

ITOPP’s technologies are ideal for testing aircraft resistance to lightning strikes. In particular, ITOPP's technologies make it possible to study the behaviors of composite materials, which react very differently than more regular metals during a lightning strike.