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Detector Company Changes Its Name
May 1, 2006 — Gresham Scientific Instruments Ltd. of High Wycombe, UK, has been renamed e2v scientific instruments Ltd. The company was purchased by e2v technologies plc of Chelmsford, UK, for £5.1 million in July 2005. It supplies detectors for energy dispersive x-ray and x-ray fluorescence spectrometry. Industrial equipment manufacturers and researchers use the devices in scanning and transmission electron microscopes and x-ray fluorescence analyzers.
DMG and Svedice Form Strategic Partnership
May 1, 2006 — DMG Technologies Inc. of Monterey, Calif., a manufacturer of optical subassemblies used in telecommunications and instrumentation systems, and Svedice AB of Järfälla, Sweden, provider of customized InP-based semiconductor design and processing...
GenTek Chosen as Southeastern Distributor
May 1, 2006 — Fiso Technologies of Quebec City has chosen GenTek Inc. of Tampa, Fla., to act as its sales representative in the southeastern US. The latter will promote the Canadian company’s fiber optic sensor products in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi,...
German and US Companies Form Alliance on Polymer Products
May 1, 2006 — Wahl optoparts GmbH of Triptis, a subsidiary of Jenoptik AG of Jena, both in Germany, has formed a partnership with Apollo Optical Systems LLC and RPC Photonics Inc., both of Rochester, N.Y. The companies will cooperate in the manufacture of...
Global Semiconductor Equipment Sales Reported Down in 2005
May 1, 2006 — The worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment totaled $32.88 billion in 2005, down from the $37.08 billion posted in 2004, according to data compiled in the Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics Report. The report was...
Industrial Laser Group Merges with SME
May 1, 2006 — The Industrial Laser Group is now represented as the Industrial Laser Community within the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Technical Community Network. The purpose of the merger is to bring together large and small laser companies,...
Instrument Systems, Suss Join Forces
May 1, 2006 — Suss MicroTec Inc. of Waterbury Center, Vt., and Instrument Systems GmbH of Munich, Germany, will jointly develop a high-throughput test system for LED devices at the wafer level, enabling manufacturers to test up to 70,000 LED dies per hour. The...
JMar, Portaqua Offer Water Monitoring System
May 1, 2006 — JMar Technologies Inc. of San Diego has signed an OEM agreement with Portaqua, a Blacksburg, Va.-based company introducing a portable water system to the bottling market. The device works with JMar’s BioSentry water quality monitoring system, which...
KLA-Tencor Acquires ADE
May 1, 2006 — KLA-Tencor Corp. of San Jose, Calif., has agreed to buy ADE Corp. of Westwood, Mass., in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at approximately $488 million. ADE is a supplier of metrology and inspection systems for the semiconductor, magnetic data...
Light Technology Companies Merge
May 1, 2006 — The newly formed company International Light Technologies Inc. has announced that its divisions, Gilway Technical Lamp and International Light, will combine their resources and consolidate operations at a facility in Peabody, Mass. Each division...
Machine Vision Market Exhibits Growth
May 1, 2006 — The machine vision and imaging industry showed strong growth in 2005, and the trend is expected to continue in 2006, according to a study conducted by the Automated Imaging Association of Ann Arbor, Mich. Titled “Machine Vision Markets — 2005...
Melles Griot To Supply HeNe Lasers Directly
May 1, 2006 — Melles Griot of Carlsbad and Coherent Inc. of Santa Clara, both in California, have agreed that the former will begin supplying its helium-neon lasers, previously distributed by Coherent under its own name in a private-label arrangement, directly to...
Nanometrics Buys Soluris
May 1, 2006 — Nanometrics Inc., a supplier of metrology equipment to the semiconductor industry in Milpitas, Calif., has announced the acquisition of Soluris Inc., an overlay metrology company in Concord, Mass., for $7 million. Soluris was formed in 2003 through...
Ocean Optics Forms Alliances
May 1, 2006 — Ocean Optics Inc. of Dunedin, Fla., and Centice Corp. of Research Triangle Park, N.C., have entered into an agreement under which Ocean Optics will add Centice’s multimodal multiplex spectroscopy technology to its product portfolio. The Raman...
OIDA Presents Plans for High-Brightness LED Technology
May 1, 2006 — Michael Lebby, president and CEO of the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA), discussed the organization’s vision for high-brightness LED technology in a speech delivered in February at North Carolina State University in Raleigh....
Olympus Creates Life Science Group
May 1, 2006 — Olympus America Inc. of Melville, N.Y., has combined its Scientific Equipment and Diagnostic Systems groups and Life Science Business Development unit to create a Life Science Group. The move is designed to align the company’s organization with that...
Photon Chooses Distributor in China
May 1, 2006 — Photon Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has entered into an agreement with China Light, a representative for advanced photonics, optical systems, and testing and measurement instrument companies in Beijing, to market its products in China. The company...
Photonics in Taiwan Shows Strong Growth
May 1, 2006 — The Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association of Taipei, Taiwan, has released a report on the state of the photonics market in the country. The organization’s mission is to work with private enterprises and government agencies to...
Report: Verizon Expands Fiber-to-the-Premises Operations
May 1, 2006 — New York-based Verizon has begun to install several billion dollars’ worth of fiber-to-the-premises infrastructure in its network, according to a report released by BIA Financial Network Inc. of Chantilly, Va., and Telecom Pragmatics Inc. of...
Taos Relocates to Larger Headquarters
May 1, 2006 — Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions (TAOS) Inc. has moved to expanded headquarters in Plano, Texas, in response to the growing demand for the company’s sensor products. The new facility will provide up to 10,000 additional square feet of office...
Yokogawa and Fujitsu Collaborate
May 1, 2006 — Yokogawa Electric Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd., both of Tokyo, have agreed to jointly develop core technologies and key components for ultrahigh-speed optical transmission systems. The companies aim to achieve a faster transmission network infrastructure...
Zeiss Resumes Camera Lens Distribution
May 1, 2006 — Carl Zeiss Camera Lens Div. of Oberkochen, Germany, has assumed global distribution of its products. The company’s sales department will distribute its soon-to-be launched ZF lenses and its Zeiss Ikon camera system, previously distributed by a...
Air Force Awards Aculight Second Contract
Apr 1, 2006 — Aculight Corp., a developer of laser technologies, has been awarded a second contract from the US Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M. The $935,000 contract will enable the...
Avantes Relocates
Apr 1, 2006 — In Colorado, Avantes Inc. has moved from Boulder to a larger facility in Broomfield. The company supplies products for fiber optic spectroscopy, such as, light sources, spectrometers, fiber optic cables and multiplexers, and accessories for...
Bookham Acquires Avalon Photonics
Apr 1, 2006 — Bookham Inc., a provider of optical components, modules and subsystems in San Jose, Calif., has agreed to acquire Avalon Photonics. Based in Zurich, Switzerland, the latter company supplies single- and multimode vertical- cavity surface-emitting...

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