NDC Infrared Engineering Merges with Beta LaserMike
- Published: July 14, 2014
IRWINDALE, CA | NDC Infrared Engineering and Beta LaserMike, both part of the Spectris family of companies and suppliers of noncontacting measurement and control solutions, have merged to create NDC Technologies.
Reportedly, the combination strengthens the new company’s position in the marketplace by offering a more comprehensive portfolio of gauging solutions with enhanced cross-selling opportunities. In addition, the new operating model expands the company’s reach to better serve its growing global base of customers. The corporate headquarters for NDC Technologies will be based in Irwindale.
According to Drew Cheshire, president of NDC Technologies, "…By combining these rich offerings into a single complete portfolio, we can provide customers with a broad range of gauging systems that meet a diverse scope of application requirements. This combination will yield many synergies and benefits in the years ahead and pave the foundation for future growth."
"This merger represents the best strategic move for both NDC Infrared Engineering and Beta LaserMike, and it is the strategy that is most likely to deliver increased value to our respective stakeholders," says Ken Wright, former president of Beta LaserMike and now president of global engineering and marketing for NDC Technologies. "We are confident that the combined company, NDC Technologies, will increase our competitive advantage in products, sales distribution, and technical support, while enhancing our relationships with customers and partners."
NDC Technologies will offer four key product groups:
• Web solutions for the converting, extrusion, calendering, and nonwovens industries, delivering real-time measurement and control of key product parameters such as product thickness, coating thickness, and basis weight
•Sensors—on-line gauges and at-line analyzers for the measurement of moisture and other key product constituents in the food, chemical, pharmaceutical, mineral, bulk materials, and tobacco industries
• Metals—x-ray gauges for the on-line measurement of thickness, coat weight, width, and optical flatness measurement for the ferrous and non-ferrous metals industries
• Laser and ultrasonic—noncontact gauges for the on-line and off-line measurement of diameter and ovality, wall thickness and eccentricity, length and speed, and other dimensional monitoring of products in the wire and cable, fiber optics, pipe and tube, building, nonwovens, paper, plastic, and metals industries.
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