Prior Scientific acquires Queensgate for its nanopositioning instruments
Precision optical and mechanical instrumentation manufacturer Prior Scientific Instruments (Cambridge, England) has acquired Queensgate Instruments (also in Cambridge), a division of Elektron Technology. Queensgate, with its manufacturing based in Torquay, England, is a supplier of high-precision nanopositioning systems and sensors.
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"Queensgate is the premier manufacturer of extremely high accuracy positioning devices and sensors and they fit in well with the precision products that Prior has been supplying to a variety of markets," says Prior CEO, Tom Freda. "With our established sales and marketing presence, we look forward to serving the existing Queensgate customer base and expanding the business throughout the world."
Founded in 1919, Prior provides high-precision automation systems and components for a variety of scientific and industrial applications. Prior’s line of motorized xy stages, z drives and columns, illumination systems, autofocus systems, and robotic sample handling allow Prior to supply custom and OEM components and systems.
Queensgate Nano was founded in 1979 and span out from a ground-breaking research program at Imperial College, London. Queensgate says it "wrote the book" on nanopositioning, taking the idea from the lab to real-world applications. Queensgate offers a wide range of standard and custom-built nanotechnology products from nanosensors to nanopositioning devices, control electronics, translators, and software.
SOURCE: Prior Scientific Instruments; https://www.prior.com/uncategorised/prior-scientific-acquires-queensgate-instruments
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.