Paris--The French News Digest reported that Automa Tech completed on December 31, 2005 the acquisition of its main North-American rival, U.S. optical components and systems company PerkinElmer Optoelectronics SC, effective January 1, 2006.

Automa-Tech will manage the acquired company as an autonomous entity and will keep on developing this acknowledged brand. The main effects expected from the move for the Automa-Tech group include an additional turnover of between $8 million (6.7 million euro) and $10 million (8.4 million euro), in a short run, and a favorable contribution to the group's profits as of the second year of the acquisition. Automa-Tech also gets access to a customer base which is 70 percent complementary to its own portfolio. In addition, the French group gains an extended product range and a stronger presence on the North American market, as well as a better coverage of the global market.

PerkinElmer Optoelectronics (optoelectronics.perkinelmer.com), a subsidiary of U.S. group PerkinElmer, Inc., provides optical components and systems, as well as training and support services, to the medical, biotech, military, aerospace, and industrial markets. The company makes amorphous silicon digital X-ray detectors for medical imaging applications, optical sensors used in instrumentation, luggage screening, and security applications, as well as xenon flashtubes and laser pump sources used in digital cameras and laser machine tools.

Automa-Tech ( www.automa-tech.com ) specializes in machinery for the printed circuit board industry, including photo exposure units, punching machines and imaging lasers, also providing software and imaging technology such as collimated light, scattered light, scanning light and laser direct imaging.

Source: Boursorama
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