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Bruker Daltonics Inc., a Billerica, Mass., developer of mass spectrometry technology, announced it has appointed Seiichiro Tsurumaki as its assistant vice president for Japan. Tsurumaki was previously sales and marketing director for Bruker Daltonics KK, in Tokyo. . . . Pat Edsell has been appointed president and CEO of NP Photonics, a Tucson, Ariz., maker of advanced micro fiber products for sensing and scientific applications. Edsell was formerly president and CEO of Gigabit Optics Corp. Prior to that, he was chairman, president and CEO of Spectra-Physics Inc. . . . LOH Optical Machinery, a Milwaukee, Wis., subsidiary of LOH AG in Wetzler, Germany, announced that it recently installed its line of asphere processing machines at Kreischer Optics LLC, in McHenry, Ill., including a GII-3A for pre/fine grinding of aspheres and spheres, AII 7-axis robotic polisher (aspheres) and TII-3D topography measuring unit.