After two years of construction, SAMSON has opened the ROLF SANDVOSS INNOVATION CENTER – the most modern R&D and test center for valve engineering – on the eastern end of its Frankfurt site. The new, integrated R&D and test center enables all companies within the SAMSON group to meet the future requirements for testing and R&D activities. At the same time, the facilities of the ROLF SANDVOSS INNOVATION CENTER are open to SAMSON's customers and partners for research and certification so that the center can be run at a profit.

An area of more than 7000 m² is available for prototyping, simulations and a wide variety of tests. New fields in valve R&D, for example data analysis and cloud technologies, are being explored in the ROLF SANDVOSS INNOVATION CENTER in addition to the traditional research topics, such as materials science, flow engineering, cryogenics, acoustics, control engineering, device safety and system integration.

Work in the ROLF SANDVOSS INNOVATION CENTER is focused on the digital transformation of SAMSON products. Important foundations for this have been laid by equipping the center with complex plant engineering and a sophisticated digital infrastructure. They enable SAMSON to cover a wide variety of tests, process media, process conditions and fields of application. At the same time, they constitute the ideal base for the research, development and testing of SAMSON products for all Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 environments.
The entire infrastructure, which includes more than 200 test instruments, enables SAMSON to quickly develop new prime-quality products. These products achieve a high level of reliability in a wide variety of applications already when they are launched onto the market.