EOS Acquires Longtime Supplier KiwiStar Optics
SYMONSTON, Australia, April 11, 2022 — 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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