Bruker Corp., Billerica, Mass., announces that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Alicona Imaging GmbH, a leading provider of optical-based metrology products in Austria. For calendar year 2018, Alicona expects to be profitable with revenues of approximately $25 million. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
Bruker anticipates the acquisition to expand its application reach and offer customers an even more comprehensive selection of complementary metrology solutions to serve materials research, engineering, and high-precision quality assurance needs.
Alicona is a global supplier of optical 3D surface measurement solutions for quality assurance in the lab and in production. Its key competence is the measurement of form and roughness of even complex, miniaturized geometries. The stable and robust technology of Alicona Focus-Variation delivers repeatable and traceable measurements even in a production environment. Research and Development acts very closely to the direct need of industry, which enables Alicona to design both standard products and special solutions based on industrial partnerships. Alicona headquarters is in Austria, with additional subsidiaries in Germany, France, UK, USA, South Korea, and Italy.
