(Left to right) François Blateyron, COO, and Christophe Mignot, CEO of Digital Surf, Jan Friis Jørgensen, CEO, and Anders van der Aa Kühle, Technical Product Manager of Image Metrology. |
Digital Surf (Besançon, France), which makes surface imaging and metrology software for microscopes and profilers, has acquired Image Metrology (Hørsholm, Denmark), a provider of nano- and microscale image processing software. Both companies will continue to operate independently under their existing management, and share software technologies and expertise.
Image Metrology will release SPIP version 6.3 in September 2014 including new software for particles and pores analysis. Digital Surf will release Mountains version 7.2 in November 2014, including new software for scanning electron microscopy. In the future Digital Surf and Image Metrology will exchange their technologies to enhance Mountains software and SPIP software. Longer term they will develop a common software platform for microscopes, profilometers, and spectrometers that is upwards compatible with both Mountains and SPIP. Both companies will recruit additional personnel to accelerate these developments.
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Founded in 1989, Digital Surf specializes in providing surface imaging and metrology software for all types of surface metrology instrument including 2D and 3D profilometers, optical microscopes, scanning probe microscopes, scanning electron microscopes and hyperspectral instruments. Image Metrology, founded in 1998, provides nano- and microscale image processing software.
Source: Digital Surf