Foss Electric, Hillerød, is one (of two) co-sponsors of ACACSRG's R&D professorship for the period 2001-2002. Extensive collaboration is a given, much of which is of proprietary nature in the context of Foss' world market leadership within NIR-systems a.o. Specific collaboration topics include: development of new NIR-applications, validation of automatically calibrated models etc. (Kim H. Esbensen, Lars P. Houmøller, Thomas Mathiasen, Carsten Ridder, Henrik Wullf)