Photonics

Hamamatsu achieves fat sales increase in the fourth quarter of 2020

Photonics specialist Hamamatsu's fourth-quarter 2020 sales rose 5.6 percent year-on-year to 36.4 billion yen (about 288 million euros). Operating profit rose 3.4 percent to 171 million yen (about 1.35 million euros). Products for medical applications in particular sold well.

Brexit: Spectaris expects significantly more bureaucracy

For the German industry association Spectaris, which represents companies from the machine vision, photonics and medical technology sectors, the fact remains despite the positive conclusion of the Brexit negotiations: The handling of many commercial transactions across the English Channel changed significantly on January 1, 2021. The German economy has not had sufficient time to prepare for this.

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