荷兰Profound   www.profound.nl www.profound-usa.com
Profound公司的业务是研发并销售基桩诊断及监测系统、专业且经济的基桩质量控制和保证系统。在过去的50年里，Profound一直是这一领域的先行者。

公司创始于1960年代，当时是荷兰应用科学研究所（TNO）—欧洲第二大R&D组织—的建筑和施工研究部门。顾名思义，基桩诊断系统(FPDS)组织，利用当时最先进的技术，为客户在基桩测试方面开展了广泛的研究、测试及开发工作。而且，Profound开发的设备和软件使得客户自己就能够进行基桩检测工作。

在1980年代，这个市场，尤其是国际市场，急剧膨胀。为了在维持产品技术的高水平的同时，还确保为客户（包括国际客户）提供最优质的服务，Profound从一个附属部门变成了一个独立的TNO全资子公司。这个子公司被命名为Profound (PROfessional FOUNdation Diagnostics)。在大约3年后的2002年，它从TNO组织中分离出来，成为了一家私人公司。

作为一间私人公司，Profound继续着50前就开始的事业，为超过40个国家的客户提供专业服务。同时，Profound致力于技术创新，不断在基桩诊断领域里为客户开发出更有效、实用的新技术。

Profound develops and manufactures innovative and high quality Pile Testing Equipment and Geotechnical Monitoring Systems for professional use.

Ranging from inventive pile testing methods to innovative geotechnical monitoring equipment, we are continuously striving to make the best technology available to you.
Profound develops and markets Foundation Pile Diagnostic and Monitoring Systems, professional and cost-effective systems for the quality control and quality assurance of foundation piles and other structural components, and has been a pioneer in this field for almost 50 years.

The company began in the 1960’s as a group of the Building and Construction Research Department within the Dutch organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), the second largest R&D organization in Europe. The Foundation Pile Diagnostic Systems (FPDS) Group, as it was called, took on a broad range of activities for its clients in foundation pile testing with state-of-the-art technology that was developed in research and development projects. Their equipment and software also enabled clients to perform or monitor foundation pile testing themselves.

During the 1980’s the market, and especially the international market, expanded substantially for these activities. To ensure continued optimal services to all clients (incl. the international clients) while maintaining the high technology standards of the products, the decision was made in 1999 to change the department to a fully owned subsidiary of TNO. This subsidiary was called Profound (PROfessional FOUNdation Diagnostics), which was split off from the TNO organization some three years later, when it became a privately held company in 2002.

As an independent company Profound continues with the work that was started some 50 years ago, to accommodate its clients (now in more than 40 countries), and also to innovate by continuously making new practical applications in the field of foundation engineering and geotechnical monitoring available to the market.