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LMI Technologies. Lakesight, based in Germany, is a vision
conglomerate formed of Chromasens, Mikrotron and Tattile. It serves the industrial and mobility markets, offering machine vision solutions for inspection, measurement and process control. TKH will purchase 100 per cent of the shares
of Lakesight. Te acquisition is expected to close before the end of the year and will contribute to the earnings per share of TKH from 2019. Te TKH Group posted a turnover of €813
million in the first half of 2018, and an EBITA of €93 million. It is an internal group of companies delivering systems and networks for the provision of information, telecommunication, electrotechnical engineering, and industrial production. Commenting on the acquisition, Dr Ronald
Müller, CEO of Vision Markets, a marketing and management consulting firm, said: ‘Tis move will open interesting opportunities for the group members, as well as for OEM customers.’ With 169 employees, Lakesight has an annual
turnover of around €45 million. It bought the line scan imaging company Chromasens in May 2017, which joined Tattile, a manufacturer of imaging systems for the industrial, traffic, and railway markets – bought in 2012 – as well as high-speed camera supplier Mikrotron, purchased in 2015. Lakesight was owned by European private equity fund, Ambienta. Peter Tix, CEO of Lakesight, commented:
‘We see an excellent fit with TKH to combine our strengths and potential to accelerate growth,
together with complementary technologies and the leverage of the international geographical footprint of TKH.’ Alexander van der Lof, CEO of TKH, stated:
‘Lakesight offers a broad portfolio of high-end vision technologies that fits nicely into TKH’s technologies in the field of vision and security. Te combination will generate synergies and accelerate growth, especially in our defined vertical growth markets machine vision, and tunnel and infra.’ Müller, at Vision Markets, listed the machine
vision portfolio that TKH is now offering aſter the acquisition: embedded, industrial, and shortwave infrared cameras from Allied Vision; high-speed cameras and video recording PCs from Mikrotron; line scan cameras, including 3D, colour and multispectral, from Chromasens, along with high-power line lights; 3D scanners based on laser profilometry from LMI Technologies; and road traffic cameras with integrated number plate recognition from Tattile. In Müller’s opinion, ‘the average integrator,
device or machinery OEM might not see an immediate benefit from the new group’s strength.’ However, he went on to say that global industrial
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Lakesight bought by TKH to create vision super entity
akesight Technologies has been acquired by the TKH Group, the Netherland’s-based company that owns Allied Vision, NET and
Chromasens’ 3DPixa dual 200µm HR camera
players, such as OEMs in automotive, consumer electronics, aerospace or railway, which have a need for various different vision technologies, would benefit. TKH and its group members are now able
to offer a comprehensive range of technologies and products, ‘which would allow them to build solutions where smaller players would not be considered sufficiently powerful on the financial and technology side,’ according to Müller. Müller noted ‘the machine vision market is
facing ubiquitous commoditisation, especially when it comes to cameras … A higher level of integration, i.e. getting closer to specialised solutions for high-potential market niches, is one of the most promising ways to success. A consortium of such a broad span of competencies as within the TKH group, allows for such developments towards unique offerings.’ By joining TKH, Lakesight might be able
to lower its manufacturing costs, because of the greater purchasing volumes that TKH will command for components such as image sensors. Te vision brands within TKH, however, will remain separate entities, in Müller’s opinion.
Stemmer Imaging purchases stake in Perception Park Based in Graz, Austria,
Stemmer Imaging has acquired a stake in Perception Park, the Austrian hyperspectral software provider. The purchase price is a low single-digit million-euro amount; Perception Park is consolidated retroactively from 1 October 2018.
Stemmer Imaging has been supplying Perception Park’s chemical colour imaging (CCI) software technology as a distributor since January 2016. The purchase expands Stemmer Imaging’s own software portfolio, revolving around Common Vision Blox.
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Perception Park’s data processing platform, Perception System and Studio, renders complex hyperspectral data at the molecular level usable for machine vision. Applications for the technology
encompass the food processing industry, mining, the healthcare sector and the recycling sector. Stemmer Imaging founded a wholly-owned subsidiary in Austria at the beginning of June, and the acquisition of Perception Park strengthens its Graz location.
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