Rockwell Collins will sell Kaiser Optical Systems to Endress+Hauser.
Rockwell Collins announced that it has agreed to sell its subsidiary, Kaiser Optical Systems, a spectrographic instrumentation and applied holographic technology company, to Endress+Hauser, a producer of measurement instrumentation and services for industrial process engineering. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The sale is expected to be complete in early fiscal 2014 and is subject to customary closing conditions.
Kaiser Optical Systems, located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, became a Rockwell Collins company in 2000 as part of the company’s purchase of K Systems, the parent company of Kaiser Aerospace and Electronics. Principal products include Raman sensors and instrumentation, advanced holographic components for
spectroscopy, telecommunications, astronomy and ultra-fast sciences, and components for aircraft display systems.
Source: Rockwell Collins
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