KORE TECHNOLOGY LTD

Their core work

Kore Technology is a UK-based SME specializing in the design and manufacture of analytical instruments built on soft chemical ionization techniques — principally Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS), Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometry (PTR-MS), and Ion Mobility Spectrometry (IMS). These instruments detect and quantify trace chemical compounds in gas-phase samples, with commercial applications spanning breath analysis, food quality control, environmental monitoring, and security screening. In EU research, Kore contributes as an industrial partner in doctoral training networks, providing early-career researchers with access to commercial instrumentation and applied expertise in ion-molecule reaction chemistry. Their participation in the IMPACT project reflects a company that engages with the foundational science directly underlying its own product line.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both of Kore Technology's H2020 projects began in 2016, making meaningful temporal evolution analysis impossible — there is no keyword shift to observe because both participations are from the same period. Their recorded early-period keywords are entirely concentrated on mass spectrometry and ion chemistry techniques; the absence of recent-period keywords is an artifact of the data structure, not evidence of a change in direction. Any assessment of how their focus has evolved since 2016 would require looking beyond this CORDIS dataset to their current commercial and research activities.

With only two projects from a single starting year and no subsequent H2020 participations recorded, there is insufficient data to project a research trajectory — a prospective collaborator should assess Kore's current direction through their commercial product roadmap rather than their EU project history.

How they like to work

Kore Technology participates as a specialist contributor or third-party partner rather than a project leader, consistent with a focused SME that brings instrumentation expertise and industrial context into academically-led consortia. Their involvement in MSCA Innovative Training Networks suggests a preference for engaging with doctoral-level research, likely hosting secondments and offering hands-on training on commercial instruments. With 34 unique partners reached across just two projects, their exposure to diverse European collaborators comes through the large network structure of MSCA training initiatives rather than through repeat bilateral partnerships.

Despite only two projects, Kore Technology has been part of consortia involving 34 unique partners across 9 countries — a reflection of the broad, multi-node structure typical of MSCA Innovative Training Networks. Their international exposure is European in scope, though the available data does not specify which countries were involved.

What sets them apart

Kore Technology occupies an uncommon position as a small instrument manufacturer that participates directly in the fundamental research underpinning its own commercial products — the ion-molecule chemistry that drives SIFT-MS and PTR-MS performance. This means they bring hardware and application knowledge into research consortia simultaneously, not just methodological expertise. For a consortium targeting analytical chemistry, trace detection, or chemical sensing for health, food, or environmental applications, Kore offers something most academic partners cannot: a direct route from research findings into commercially deployed instrumentation.

Highlights from their portfolio

• IMPACT
  Kore's sole funded project maps directly onto their commercial core — advancing ion-molecule reaction science for analytical chemical technologies, the exact physics their SIFT-MS and PTR-MS instruments exploit.
• ASPIRE
  Their third-party role in a photoelectron spectroscopy training network shows Kore's instrumentation relevance extends into adjacent precision measurement domains beyond mass spectrometry.