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About FLIR Systems

FLIR Systems was established in 1978 to pioneer the development of high-performance
infrared imaging systems, and is the world leader in the design, manufacture, and
marketing of thermal imaging systems for a wide variety of commercial, industrial,
and government applications. Today, FLIR Systems embraces five major companies
with outstanding achievements in infrared technology since 1958—the Swedish
AGEMA Infrared Systems (formerly AGA Infrared Systems), the three United States
companies Indigo Systems, FSI, and Inframetrics, and the French company Cedip.
In November 2007, Extech Instruments was acquired by FLIR Systems.
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Figure 18.1 Patent documents from the early 1960s
The company has sold more than 128 298 infrared cameras worldwide for applications
such as predictive maintenance, R & D, non-destructive testing, process control and
automation, and machine vision, among many others.
FLIR Systems has three manufacturing plants in the United States (Portland, OR,
Boston, MA, Santa Barbara, CA) and one in Sweden (Stockholm). Since 2007 there
is also a manufacturing plant in Tallinn, Estonia. Direct sales offices in Belgium, Brazil,
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