BFi Optilas International SAS of Evry, France, will serve as the exclusive distributor in the UK and Ireland for CVI Technical Optics of Onchan, Isle of Man, following the companies’ successful collaborations in other territories. CVI’s optical products have applications in the semiconductor, biotechnology, industrial, aerospace and research industries.

The French company also has signed an agreement with Powerlase Ltd., a supplier of high-power, nanosecond, Q-switched diode-pumped solid-state lasers. It will represent the Crawley, UK, company in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands.