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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 mar-

keting of thermal imaging systems for a wide variety of commercial, industrial, and gov-

ernment applications. Today, FLIR Systems embraces five major companies with

outstanding achievements in infrared technology since 1958—the Swedish AGEMA In-

frared Systems (formerly AGA Infrared Systems), the three United States companies In-

digo Systems, FSI, and Inframetrics, and the French company Cedip.

Since 2007, FLIR Systems has acquired several companies with world-leading expertise

in sensor technologies:

• Extech Instruments (2007)

• Ifara Tecnologías (2008)

• Salvador Imaging (2009)

• OmniTech Partners (2009)

• Directed Perception (2009)

• Raymarine (2010)

• ICx Technologies (2010)

• TackTick Marine Digital Instruments (2011)

• Aerius Photonics (2011)

• Lorex Technology (2012)

• Traficon (2012)

• MARSS (2013)

• DigitalOptics micro-optics business (2013)

Figure 13.1 Patent documents from the early 1960s

The company has sold more than 350,000 infrared cameras worldwide for applications

such as predictive maintenance, R & D, non-destructive testing, process control and au-

tomation, and machine vision, among many others.

FLIR Systems has three manufacturing plants in the United States (Portland, OR, Bos-

ton, 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, China,

France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Korea, Sweden, and the USA

—together with a worldwide network of agents and distributors—support our internation-

al customer base.

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