Hyland Optical Technologies acquires assets of Ealing Catalog

Nov. 14, 2013

Newly founded Hyland Optical Technologies has purchased the assets of Ealing Catalog.

Scotts Valley, CA--Optomechanical assemblies and subsystems manufacturer Hyland Optical Technologies haspurchased the assets of Ealing Catalog (San Jose, CA). Ealing Catalog has been providing quality photonics products for over 50 years to research and OEM customers in life science, OEM, and industrial applications.

Hyland Optical Technologies (Hyland) was recently founded by principals of Market Tech (Scotts Valley, CA) and Omicron Laserage (Rogau, Germany) to supply optomechanical assemblies to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and catalog customers. Hyland will invest in future products, in people, and in the processes of Ealing Catalog that will address the needs of customers as well as strengthen the brand.

Sonke Baumann, CEO of Hyland, said, "We are very excited to have a valued brand like Ealing Catalog as part of our portfolio that has a long history of providing Photonics Tools. The acquisition of Ealing Catalog assets brings additional products and capabilities to build a larger product portfolio for our customers."

SOURCE: Hyland Optical Technologies; http://www.hylandopticaltechnologies.com/news/news.html

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Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.