Physik Instrumente Expands to Silicon Valley

PI (Physik Instrumente) LP has expanded its reach to Silicon Valley.

The company, a subsidiary of Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG of Germany, is headquartered in Auburn, Mass., and said its new facility in Sausalito, Calif., will be similar to PI's existing sales and applications office in Irvine, Calif.

"Building a high-quality sales, applications support and technical development team in Silicon Valley is essential for continued business success in the West," said President Brian Lula. "Our new Bay Area facility is a natural outgrowth of the requirements to support our strong customer base in the West."

PI manufactures precision motion-control equipment, piezo motors, air bearing stages and hexapod parallel-kinematics for semiconductor, photonics, bio- and nanotechnology, and medical engineering fields.