The laser manufacturer SPI Lasers, a member of the TRUMPF Group, is to acquire the company JK Lasers with effect from April 15, 2015. With almost 100 employees and annual sales of 17.6 million euros, JK Lasers is one of the world's leading manufacturers of high-power fiber lasers for industrial use.
JK Lasers, until now a member of the GSI Group, has more than 40 years of experience in laser development. The company's core competence is in fiber lasers with outputs from 100 watts to 4 kilowatts, as well as combiners for joining laser sources and other beam guidance components. The most important target groups of JK Lasers include machine manufacturers for laser cutting applications and for additive manufacturing.
JK Lasers is based in Rugby, UK, only a few hours' drive away from the headquarters of SPI Lasers in Southampton. Rugby will act as an additional production and development center for fiber lasers and optical components – the combined expertise and product focus areas complement each other in many respects.
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JK Lasers, based in Rugby, UK, has manufactured high-power lasers for industrial applications since 1972.
about TRUMPF
TRUMPF is a leading global high-technology company and produces machine tools, lasers and electronics for industrial applications. Products manufactured with the company's technology can be found in almost every sector of industry. TRUMPF is the world technological and market leader for machine tools used in flexible sheet metal processing, and also for industrial lasers.
In 2013/14 the company – which has approximately 11,000 employees – achieved sales of 2.59 billion euros. With more than 60 subsidiaries, the TRUMPF Group is represented in almost all the countries of Europe, North and South America, and Asia. It has production facilities in Austria, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, and the USA.
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