The group’s board of directors met yesterday and paid homage to chairman Leonardo Del Vecchio who passed away peacefully Monday morning. They said he will forever be remembered for his values, robust leadership, passion, exceptional character as well as his dedication toward the company and its employees.
Saab AB and Lumibird SA have completed a transaction whereby Lumibird, through a newly established Swedish subsidiary based in Gothenburg, is acquiring Saab’s laser rangefinder business.
The Maxon Group continued to increase its sales in 2021. Compared to the previous year, sales grew by 13.2 percent to a new record of CHF 626.5 million (previous year CHF 553.5 million). The company has the highest order backlog in its more than 60-year history for the current year.
Laser manufacturer Luxinar has officially opened its USA office near Detroit. The team of John Podwojski, regional general manager and Dan McArthur, technical support manager welcomed guests to the regional office in Shelby Township on 22 June.
Founded in 1972 as a manufacturer of industrial pipe clamping systems, Rose+Krieger has developed into a full-range supplier with a product selection of linear technology, profile assembly technology, connection and modular technology.
The seventh edition of Lasys ended on Thursday amidst a positive mood. In Mahle Hall 4 at the Messe Stuttgart trade fair, trade visitors from all over Europe gathered information from a total of 93 exhibitors from 16 countries.
The supplier of compound semiconductor wafer products and advanced material solutions IQE has signed an agreement with Lumentum for the supply of epiwafers supporting 3D sensing, lidar for automotive and optical networking applications.
ifm has now inaugurated a new company building at the Singapore location, which doubles the previously available space.
With the release 4.0 of the EMVA 1288 standard last year, new terms of use came into effect. Now the transition period has expired and all users of the old one have to apply for a new license. In addition, all members of the GenICam working group must re-register after June 30, 2022.
Zebra Technologies has completed the acquisition of Matrox Imaging.
The 3D optical coherence refraction tomography produces highly detailed images that reveal features difficult to observe with traditional OCT.
Board members of the laser working group discuss thematic development priorities, electromobility, and potentials of blue diode lasers.
A semiconducting structure absorbs mechanical energy provided by ultrasound excitation, with the erbium oxide providing a light emission.
Quantum dot specialist has expanded its staff with a raft of new appointments as it catches up with sharply rising demand for its Infiq QD products.
The project µg welding investigates if lasers could be used to join add-on parts or spare parts in micro or zero gravity.
In the past financial year (April 2021 - March 2022), Keba increased its sales from 415.4 million euros to 537.7 million euros.
Ipf Electronic can look back on 40 years of company history this year. Over the years, the company has become an expert in the development of user-specific sensor solutions.
Over 2,500 people attended the 18th Rapid.Tech 3D. They heard about new products and services in additive manufacturing (AM) from 97 exhibitors representing 11 countries. 13 of the exhibitors in Thuringia came from outside Germany, including companies from the US, Great Britain, Austria and Switzerland. Visitors were delighted with the conference programme, and delegate numbers were higher than at the last live conference in 2019.
After three years of cooperation, KEB Automation has acquired a majority stake in Brusatori Electric Motors. The takeover brought a change in the company management.
A tunable electro-optic modulator for free space applications can modulate light at gigahertz speed.
For the first time, Automatica and Laser World of Photonics will be held at the same time and under the same roof from 27 to 30 June 2023, and every two years thereafter.
According to the VDMA, sales in the German machine vision industry rose by 16 percent in 2021, reaching 3.1 billion euros. Overall, revenues in the robotics and automation sector also grew at a double-digit rate.
Kappa Optronics is buying embedded vision specialist Schmid-Engineering, effective May 1, 2022. The founder, Michael Schmid, becomes Director Innovations of Kappa.
Issue 3/2022 – June/July – is online and has been mailed. It includes feature articles from Civan Lasers, Duma Optronics, Hübner Photonics / Cobolt / Valo Innovations, Luxinar, Martec Photonics, Optogon, Philips, Trumpf, and more companies and institutions.
Technology to sense absorption or refractive index changes can be used to identify and characterize a wide range of materials and biochemical samples.
Contrinex celebrates its 50th anniversary. Since its foundation in 1972, the Swiss company has developed numerous sensor solutions for factory automation.
New device produces a bright, warm light with even less blue wavelength emissions than natural candlelight.
The year 2022 is a special year for the family company Mayr Antriebstechnik: The managing partner Ferdinand Mayr and great-great-grandson of the company founder takes over the position of CEO from Günther Klingler.
The Schall Group is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. At the same time, Motek, one of its most important trade fairs, is taking place for the 40th time from 7 to 8 October in Stuttgart.
Michael Cmok has been with the company from the beginning. His expertise and organizational skills have contributed to the current success of the company.
New approach to exploit the full potential of organic solar cells.
The European Machine Vision Association EMVA is calling on researchers and developers to contribute to the 5th European Machine Vision Forum.
In order to meet the growing demand for flow measurement technology, the company has built a new production and office building in Cernay, France.
At the spring meeting of the VDMA Working Group on Lasers and Laser Systems for Material Processing (AG Laser), the members elected a new board for the next four years.
For customized applications in optical machine monitoring of plants, Vision & Control now also offers the development of individual optics.
