ISI was founded in October 1975. You can allready find the first traces of ISI (Intercontinental Serrvice Inc.) in Massachusets (USA) early 70’s. The Frenchman James Royer, then sales manager of an american manufacturer of military components, imagines to create a Cy offering to american components manufacturers the service of helping them to export outside USA by developping for them distribution networks in Europe. From there the name Intercontinental Services Inc..
The finalisation of this idea results in the creation of ISI in Belgium in october 1975. Rapidely the activity extends to the sales of the same products on the Belgium-Luxemburg marketplace.
In 1978, James Royer starts the french cy Microel and hires Etienne Neyens to run ISI in Belgium. End 1979, the family Neyens takes 100 % control over the ISI shares.
Due to the background of the new shareholders, the Cy activity changes gradually by specialising in turnkey instrumentation systems for physical quantities, delivering the sensors, the conditioning, the electronics, the data acquisition and the software. ISI became also a leader in Belgium for the measurement and monitoring of noise and vibrations.