Nikon Corporation has announced a development agreement between Nikon Advanced Manufacturing and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM), managers of America Makes.
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In the face of economic uncertainty and global economic turbulence, Bosch, the supplier of technology and services, is boldly continuing with its commitment to provide venture capital to startups: its subsidiary Bosch Ventures, already one of Europe’s biggest corporate venture-capital investors, is launching a new fund worth around 250 million euros.
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Peak Technologies, a system integrator in the Automatic Identification and Data Capture market, has acquired Automation Intelligence. Automation Intelligence enhances Peak Technologies’ portfolio with advanced robotics and machine vision solutions, further strengthening its industry-leading digital supply chain offerings.
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Sodick Co., Ltd., headquartered in Yokohama, Japan, has finalized its acquisition of Prima Additive from the Prima Industrie Group. The acquired company will now operate under the new brand name Prima Additive by Sodick, continuing to base its operations at its Italian headquarters.
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The aisles of Messe Stuttgart were alive with innovation last week at CONTROL 2025, the international trade fair for quality assurance, once again proved to be the global stage for the latest in manufacturing metrology. A walk through the halls revealed not only a clear trajectory in metrology’s future but also a significant shift in the global supplier landscape.
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For the three months ending March 31, 2025, Renishaw posted revenues of £180.7 million, a 5% year-on-year increase that outpaced the 3% growth achieved in the first half of the fiscal year. The figure also represents a 7.9% sequential rise from the £167.5 million reported in the preceding quarter, supported by what the company described as a ‘solid’ order intake.
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AMETEK and FARO Technologies have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which AMETEK will acquire all outstanding shares of FARO Technologies common stock for $44 per share in cash, which represents an approximate 40% premium to FARO’s closing price on May 5, 2025. The transaction values FARO at an enterprise value of approximately $920 million. The boards of directors of both companies have unanimously approved the transaction.
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PVA TePla AG has acquired DIVE Imaging Systems GmbH with retroactive effect from January 1, 2025. The company offers specially developed innovative solutions for industrial quality control and process optimization.
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New orders of metalworking machinery, measured by the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report published by The Association For Manufacturing Technology (AMT), totaled $389.9 million in February 2025, a 9.9% increase from January and a 12.5% increase from February 2024.
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The Sandvik Group has announced that Metrologic Group, leading provider of measurement software and analysis, and Dimensional Control Systems (DCS), supplier of tolerance analysis software to industry, have merged to form a new Business Unit.
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