EOS Acquires Longtime Supplier KiwiStar Optics
Electro Optic Systems Holdings Ltd. (EOS) has entered into an agreement with Callaghan Innovation to acquire the assets and hire the personnel of KiwiStar Optics (KSO), a producer of precision optics (telescope lenses up to and over 1 m in diameter) and spectrographs. KSO is a supplier to EOS.
A KiwiStar Optics technician inspects the surface quality of a finished 1-m optic. Courtesy of EOS.
EOS is also investing to add further capability to KSO through an investment in new state-of-the-art optical equipment via the asset purchase of Arizona Optical Services, a manufacturer of large aspheric optics. This will augment the existing equipment and skill base of the KSO team.
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