ZiNIR Ltd is a product development company that takes leading photonics research and translates it into useful, flexible products for industry and academia.The company has a background in the development of near infrared spectrophotometers and data analysis to provide non-specialist users with fast, rich information about the identity of chemicals and the condition of materials. Previous and current projects include:identification of substances with a National Measurement Institute soil contamination with environmental consultants degradation of materials with an engineering firm AlphaBright, a super bright scientific light source, will shortly become available to help scientists working in spectroscopy and microscopy to increase light throughput in their systems and so gather improved data.Our future research and development interests lie in the design of high performance broadband LEDs and semiconductor-based detectors for spectroscopy.