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Trumpf Opens Plant in Monterrey, Mexico
May 1, 2007 — Trumpf Inc. of Farmington, Conn., has opened a sales, service, demonstration and production facility in Monterrey, Mexico. The 6400-sq-m plant houses the company’s equipment to produce frames for its machinery, and it includes a 420 sq-m showroom. Trumpf has invested more than $10 million in the center, which is open to Mexican fabricators and manufacturers for tours and technology demonstrations. The company’s equipment is used by manufacturers and sheet metal fabricators to make products for...
USI and PhotonIC Form Alliance
May 1, 2007 — Universal Semiconductor Inc. (USI) of San Jose, Calif., has partnered with PhotonIC Corp. of Culver City, Calif., and Honolulu to expand its semiconductor and photonic production capabilities in the US. The companies will offer integrated...
What’s in Your Wallet?
May 1, 2007 — It isn’t only the makers of film who should fear digital photography. It’s also the bills in your wallet, according to a recent report from the Washington-based National Research Council. The report states that counterfeiting banknotes is getting...
Agreement Signed by EV Group and McBain
Apr 1, 2007 — EV Group E. Thallner GmbH of St. Florian, Austria, has signed an agreement with McBain Instruments of Chatsworth, Calif., to handle worldwide distribution of its ZIII-NIR wafer inspection system. With the agreement, the European company said that it...
Alfalight Awarded $1.7 Million Contract
Apr 1, 2007 — A research and development contract worth $1.7 million has been awarded to Alfalight Inc. of Madison, Wis. The contract was provided by the Army Research Laboratory of Adelphi, Md., to fund the development of high-power fiber-coupled pump modules...
Ambios Receives Record Order
Apr 1, 2007 — Ambios Technology Inc. of Santa Cruz, Calif., has received an order for 10 of its stylus-type surface profilers from a company in Taiwan. It is the largest purchase of the profilers from a single customer. The value of the sale was not disclosed....
Basler Appoints New Distributor in Japan
Apr 1, 2007 — Basler Vision Technologies of Ahrensburg, Germany, has selected LinX Corp. of Yokohama, Japan, as a local representative for its eXcite intelligent cameras, which it will provide to LinX for resale. Under terms of the agreement, the latter company...
ChemImage and Headwall to Collaborate
Apr 1, 2007 — ChemImage Corp. of Pittsburgh and Headwall Photonics Inc. of Fitchburg, Mass., have entered into a collaboration to develop more economical spectroscopic imaging products for high-throughput pharmaceutical, forensic and materials characterization...
Companies Partner to Advance Camera Modules
Apr 1, 2007 — DxO Labs SA of Boulogne, France, has entered into a licensing and cooperative agreement with STMicroelectronics of Geneva to develop and commercialize image sensor modules incorporating DxO digital optics technology. The Swiss company’s new imaging...
Cree Purchases Cotco
Apr 1, 2007 — Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., will acquire Cotco Luminant Device Ltd. of Hong Kong, a producer of high-brightness LEDs. Under the terms of the agreement, the former will pay the latter $70 million in cash, along with stock shares valued at $130...
CyOptics to Acquire Apogee Photonics
Apr 1, 2007 — In Pennsylvania, CyOptics Inc. of Breinigsville has signed an agreement to acquire Apogee Photonics Inc. of Allentown, a supplier of laser sources for the 10- and 40-Gb/s markets. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. CyOptics noted that the...
Demand for LED Drivers Expected to Rise
Apr 1, 2007 — The trend toward mobile phone cameras with flashes could spur significant growth of driver integrated chips for LEDs. IMS Research of Wellingborough, UK, expects revenue from LED drivers to grow by 50 percent, to $600 million, by 2012. The report...
Dymax Acquires Crosslink Technologies
Apr 1, 2007 — Crosslink Technologies Inc. of Fort Wayne, Ind., has been bought by Dymax Corp. of Torrington, Conn., a producer of light-curing systems, masks, coatings and adhesives. The former makes and distributes light-curing adhesives, epoxy-based coatings,...
Gigabit Ethernet Imaging Company Founded
Apr 1, 2007 — Gevicam — a company focused on development of Gigabit Ethernet-based cameras and hardware neural network implementation — has been established in Sunnyvale, Calif. Technologies from the concern will be intended mainly for the medical, scientific,...
Growth Is Expected in Backlight Unit Market
Apr 1, 2007 — The market for backlight unit (BLU) optical films likely will hit $2.4 billion this year, a South Korean research firm forecasted in a recently released industry report. The market for the films last year was $2.3 billion. Displaybank Co. Ltd. of...
Hexagon Metrology Launches Portable Metrology Group
Apr 1, 2007 — Hexagon Metrology Inc. of North Kingstown, R.I., has formed the Portable Metrology Group to serve the inspection and measurement markets in North America. The unit will provide a single source for the portable coordinate measuring machines, the...
Integrys Becomes Channel Distributor for JAI
Apr 1, 2007 — JAI Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has appointed Integrys Ltd. to act as a channel distributor in Canada for its industrial camera products. Based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, Integrys has operations in several Canadian locations as a supplier of...
Ion Optics Changes Name
Apr 1, 2007 — ICx Ion Optics of Waltham, Mass., a business unit of ICx Technologies Inc., has changed its name to ICx Precision Photonics. The change — which reflects the unit’s focus on the development of infrared wavelength-tuned optical devices — coincides...
JDSU to Acquire Picolight
Apr 1, 2007 — A provider of broadband and optical products, JDSU of Milpitas, Calif., has agreed to acquire Picolight Inc., a designer and manufacturer of optical pluggable transceivers. Under terms of the agreement, JDSU will purchase the Louisville, Colo.,...
Jiangda to Distribute Optis Software in China
Apr 1, 2007 — Jiangda Technology Development Co. Ltd. of Shanghai, China, will distribute in that country the Speos CAA V5 light and vision simulation software from Optis of Toulon, France. The software — integrated into a product life cycle management technology...
KVH Industries Receives Another US Navy Order
Apr 1, 2007 — KVH Industries Inc. of Middletown, R.I., has received a $2.6 million follow-on order for its TG-6000 fiber optic gyro-based inertial measurement units, which will be used in the US Navy’s MK54 torpedoes. The devices measure both rate and...
Lightspeed Technologies Expands Offerings
Apr 1, 2007 — Lightspeed Technologies of Campbell, Calif., has agreed to distribute two new product lines in the US. The Q-Macs system from Neoplas Control GmbH of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, employs mid-IR quantum cascade lasers in a scanning absorption...
LIGO and Virgo Form Alliance
Apr 1, 2007 — A collaborative effort has been formed to search for gravitational waves from sources in and beyond the Milky Way galaxy and to pinpoint the source of the signals. The waves were predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916 but have not been directly...
Lumera’s Contract Extended
Apr 1, 2007 — The US government has extended a contract with Lumera Corp. of Bothell, Wash., to develop wideband optical modulators. The 12-month contract is valued at approximately $1.15 million, and the overall value of the contract is about $6.9 million. The...
Morgan Advanced, Photek Collaborate
Apr 1, 2007 — Ceramic component manufacturer Morgan Advanced Ceramics has secured a contract with Photek Ltd. of St. Leonards-on-Sea, UK, to supply hexagonal ceramic insulators for intensifiers used in NASA’s Owl, an earth-orbiting system for the study of air...

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