In 1991, after more than 20 years of experience in food processing, Jean-Louis Sourbès created the company IRTECH with the goal of designing and developing innovative industrial processes, mainly for the seafood sector, both on-land and at-sea. A few years later, in 1998, PROCONCEPT, was naturally created as a subsidiary of IRTECH. PROCONCEPT mission is to manufacture the equipment thus designed and to distribute it to and maintain it for its customers.