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  • Barco opens new company in Canada

    Barco opens new company in Canada

    MUMBAI: In line with its expansion plans in America, Barco is opening a new subsidiary in Toronto, Canada, says a company statement.

    The new subsidiary follows recent key appointments in the areas of sales, marketing, and service for the Canadian market.

    “Barco is experiencing continuous growth in Canada,” said Barco Inc. executive VP Tom Ray in America. “We feel confident that Canada’s market offers a substantial upward potential for all of Barco’s business units, and we therefore believe that now is the right time to move forward with a considerable investment in this market.”

    Luc Kindt who is the president global sales & services and senior vice-president of Barco has stressed on the growth potential for the media and entertainment and control room market, as well as the medical imaging market in Canada. “I am confident that our local presence will contribute substantially to business we receive in those markets,” he says in the statement.

    Barco is headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium. The company designs and develops solutions for large screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection.

  • Belgium based Barco acquires German company Tan assets

    BELGIUM: Barco, the image processing company, today signed a contract with TAN Projektionstechnologie GmbH & Co.KG and TAN AG, based in Düsseldorf, Germany and Marin, Switzerland.

    The contract will enable BARCO to incorporate the existing customer base of TAN ( a pioneer in the virtual and augmented reality segment), its current orders and projects, besides technological and market know how and an experienced team of system engineers, system integrators, sales and support people. With the domain of virtual and augmented reality showing a lot of potential, Barco hopes to reinforce its commitment and contribution to the Virtual & Augmented Reality market.

    The increase in the system engineer team, the system integrators and sales and support teams will create new synergies at BARCO, says a company release, enabling Barco to expand and improve its services and support to both Tan and Barco customers. The contract with Tan will enlarge the share of Barco in the German market, the release says.

    Kortrijk, Belgium headquartered Barco’s three key activities are active in image processing, with BarcoProjection active in various markets of large screen visualization, BarcoView developing and manufacturing display systems for life critical applications, while BarcoVision develops systems for visual inspection and quality control.