Toptica increases capacity for growing workforce
North America subsidiary Toptica Photonics Inc. near Rochester, NY, has moved from its Ontario County location in Farmington to Pittsford on September 9.
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Endress+Hauser receives platinum seal for sustainability
Endress+Hauser again achieved 76 out of 100 points in the EcoVadis sustainability rating. The group of companies was thus able to maintain the top position from the previous year and continues to be among the top percent of the companies compared.
Samsung Venture invests in Elfys
Finnish photodiode startup Elfys is tapping into the growing demand for photodetectors – due to the ever-growing trend of measuring one’s health and wellbeing through wearables.
Synova opens subsidiary in Dubai
The official inauguration ceremony of the MMC Dubai will be held on Thursday, October 13, 2022.
Jenoptik invests more than 70 million euros
Groundbreaking ceremony for the new high-tech fab in Dresden, extremely demanding construction and manufacturing environment taking high environmental standards into account.
Edmund Optics appoints new CEO
Edmund Optics has appointed Samuel Sadoulet as the company's Chief Executive Officer. Sadoulet will succeed Robert Edmund and assume his responsibilities with immediate effect.
VC Xray expands sales in France
VC Xray, a division of Visiconsult, has signed Actemium NDT-P&S as its French distributor. Actemium will offer its customers X-ray inspection solutions with maintenance and service support.
SVS-Vistek merged with Mikrotron
SVS-Vistek takes over all shares in Mikrotron GmbH retrospectively as of January 1, 2022. The two camera manufacturers belong to the parent company TKH Vision, the marriage is intended to open up new market segments.
Tula Solution handles Distribution of PEAK-System Products in Vietnam
PEAK-System expands the list of its worldwide trading partners with the Vietnamese company TULA Solution.
From garage company to hidden champion
Founded as an oHG in Hamm in 1972, the student start-up EKF started with just a few employees with the small series production of electronic laboratory devices in analogue technology
Marisa Edmund is the new Chair of Edmund Optics Board
She succeeds Robert Edmund who is retiring. She will also continue to serve as chief sales and marketing officer for Edmund Optics.
Hema has a new sales manager
Hema Electronic has brought Torsten Schairer into its team. His focus will be on expanding and shaping all sales activities.
IFM acquires 30 percent stake in Swiss microchip manufacturer
IFM acquires a minority stake in the Hidensity Group, the sole owner of Biel-based HMT Microelectronic. Together they want to further expand the area of innovation.
Spinout to develop thin film optical coatings and photonic sensors
A new spinout company from University of the West of Scotland is set to disrupt the thin film and sensor industry – currently valued at more than 2.5 billion pound globally.
Multiphoton Optics becomes a Heidelberg Instruments branch
This step, effective January 1, 2023, will enable even closer cooperation between the technical departments and strengthen the focus of the Würzburg site on future product developments based on two-photon polymerization.
Leuze plant in Malaysa starts production
After 16 months of construction, Leuze opened its production site in Malacca, Malaysia. From now on, sensors for the local Asian market will be produced there. High demand comes from the electronics, solar and laboratory automation sectors.
Basler grows strongly in the first half of 2022
Basler AG today presented results for the first half of 2022. Turnover increased by 14 percent to 130.8 million euro compared to the same period in 2021.
DPE acquires majority stake in Sill Optics from Pinova
Pinova had taken over the company from its former owners in 2019 and successfully developed it. Under the leadership of Christoph Sieber, investments in recent years have included coating and clean room technology, and the management team has been broadened to equip Sill Optics for further growth.
Mitsubishi Electric: Further location planned in India
Mitsubishi is planning another production site in India, Pune. The focus of the factory is to be on drive and control technology for factory automation (FA). For the sustainable realisation of its subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric India, the company says it wants to invest around 21.8 million euros.
Adimec celebrates 30th anniversary
The camera manufacturer Adimec celebrated its 30th anniversary in July. At the same time as this anniversary, Jochem Herrman, co-founder and technical director of Adimec, is retiring.
Stemmer Imaging celebrates 35th anniversary
Stemmer Imaging was founded on July 27, 1987. Now the machine vision supplier is celebrating its 35th anniversary.
EBM-Papst: Certificate of Honour for Energy Scout Project
Markus Mettler, Technical Operations Manager at EBM-Papst, was honoured for his Energy Scout project in Berlin. Energy scouts are trainees who, in addition to their apprenticeship, work to optimise energy consumption and efficiency in companies.
Palomar Technologies expands Innovation Center Singapore
The global provider of total process solutions for advanced photonics and microelectronic device packaging, Palomar Technologies, expands its innovation center in Singapore to meet a growing demand in Southeast Asia for process development and specialty OSAT for advance semiconductor new product introductions.
Change in the chairmanship of the Exhibitors' Advisory Board of the SPS
In 2017, Christian Wolf took over the chairmanship of the committee and presided over it for five years. He is now passing on the post as scheduled.
Trumpf reinvests in software companies
The decision to acquire outstanding shares in joint venture and invest in cloud platform programming experts are prompted by the machine tool and laser maker’s ongoing digitalization strategy.
Matthias Lapp Takes Over as Chairman of the Board at Cable Manufacturer Lapp
Matthias Lapp (39), grandson of the company's founder Ursula Ida Lapp, will take over as CEO of Lapp Holding from 1 October 2022. His uncle Andreas Lapp (66), Chairman of the Executive Board, and his father Siegbert E. Lapp (69), Chairman of the Supervisory Board, will retire from the operational business of the Lapp Group on 30 September 2022.
Partnership for the smart glasses of the future
EssilorLuxottica and Politecnico di Milano have created the first ever joint research center aimed at designing the smart glasses of the future, EssilorLuxottica Smart Eyewear Lab.
Vision Engineering Acquires Lens Housing Manufacturer
With the acquisition of Milturn, Vision Engineering aims to expand the existing manufacturing base in the UK and US.
Joint competence centers of Isra Vision, Perceptron, and Quiss
Under the new joint slogan ‘envisioning the future’, the three companies are offering a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for for surface inspection, quality assurance, metrology, machine vision and 3D robotics.
€7M to deliver truly realistic AR/VR
Investment will accelerate development of revolutionary holographic extended reality (HXR) technology to make virtual reality practically indistinguishable from the real world.
Faulhaber is celebrating 75 years
The history of Faulhaber begins at the end of the 1940s with the founding of the "Feinmechnische Werkstätten" by the young engineer Dr. Fritz Faulhaber in Schoenaich.
“The German photonics industry has a leading global role to lose”
The economic policy spokesman of the B'90/Green parliamentary group visited Toptica to discuss export controls, job market, and regulatory interventions.
Big deal for improving ophthalmological diagnoses
Alpao manufactures deformable mirrors that will be used in OCT systems for the retina.
Pruuve wins Photonics21 Innovation Award 2022
Tim Achenbach, Paul-Anton Will and Philipp Wellmann started the spin-off with the aim of bringing reusable UV sensor foils to market maturity. Now they have been honored with the Photonics21 Innovation Award.
Rollon builds new plant in Italy
The new plant in Agrate, north-east of Milan, adds additional production capacity to the two existing production sites in Arcore and Vimercate.
Mesago Messe Frankfurt GmbH
congatec AG
Messring GmbH
U.I. Lapp GmbH
JustLaser GmbH
Q.ANT GmbH
Daimler AG
Rodriguez GmbH
Universal Robots A/S
Conextivity Group SA
technotrans SE
ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co.KG
Xscape Photonics
Beckhoff Automation GmbH
Zebra Technologies (Headquarters)
Zygo Corporation
AMS Technologies AG
hema electronic GmbH
Schneider Electric GmbH
FEMTOprint SA
Sensofar-Tech, S.L.
Quantum Science Ltd
Blackbird Robotersysteme GmbH
KD – Knowledge Development for POF, S.L.
Ziehl-Abegg SE
Schaeffler Technologies
IFR International Federation of Robotics
Instrument Systems GmbH
Nikon GmbH
Luxinar Inc
Process Sensing Technologies PST GmbH
Innoptics SAS
Shapeways Holdings, Inc.
SEDI-ATI Fibres Optiques
ABB Automation GmbH
Nabtesco Precision Europe GmbH
Siemens AG
CTX Thermal Solutions GmbH
Menlo Systems GmbH
Rauscher GmbH Bildverarbeitung
Excelitas Noblelight GmbH
SCANLAB GmbH
IoTmaxx GmbH
Technologie-Lizenz-Büro (TLB) der Baden-Württembergischen Hochschulen GmbH
Baumer Group
Carl Zeiss AG
X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries GmbH
Samsung Electronics GmbH
Basler AG
Opto GmbH