Marposs — a leader in measurement, inspection and test technologies — has announced its acquisition of STIL SAS,
a French company that was founded in 1993 and specialises in optical measurement instruments based on ‘chromatic
confocal aberration and chromatic white-light interferometry’.

The latter exports 60% of its products to non-European markets.

Matteo Zoin, Marposs’s head of marketing and new market development (www.marposs.com), said: “The high-precision measurement technology developed by STIL complements Marposs’s existing portfolio, offering opportunities for use in the glass, glass packaging, plastic, precision mechanics, consumer electronics, semiconductors and biomedical industries.”

Founded in 1952, Marposs supplies solutions that “improve quality and productivity while reducing manufacturing costs through technologies such as process control, machine tool monitoring and precision gauging, as well as leak testing and automated assembly and control lines”.

A long-time supplier to the automotive and aerospace markets, it currently has over 3,700 employees world-wide and is present in 25 countries (through more than 80 offices).