Home

PerkinElmer acquires Opto Technology; expands LED portfolio

Feb. 10, 2009

PerkinElmer (Waltham, MA), a technology company focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, acquired Opto Technology (Wheeling, IL), a supplier of light-emitting diode (LED)-based lighting components and subsystems.

Gail Overton

The acquisition of Opto Technology adds optical subsystems to PerkinElmer's portfolio of high-brightness LED components. This addition builds on PerkinElmer's position in providing energy efficient solid-state lighting solutions to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) serving the health, safety, and security markets. PerkinElmer's LED solutions are part of its Environmental Health business that is based upon helping to ensure a cleaner environment and safer and more secure surroundings.

"A core part of our mission has been designing energy-efficient lighting systems that make the world a brighter, healthier, safer and greener place to live. We are delighted that there is such clear synergy with PerkinElmer's strategic focus," said Thomas Hegberg, president and CEO of Opto Technology.

PerkinElmer reported revenue of $1.8 billion in 2007 and has approximately 9100 employees serving customers in more than 150 countries.

For more information, go to www.perkinelmer.com.

About the Author

Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)

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.