Private equity firm to take 83% equity stake in the optoelectronic component maker, with €10 M earmarked for expansion.

After posting record orders and its second-best sales ever, the laser systems company remains confident amid the macroeconomic gloom.

The industrial giant prepares to cut 4500 jobs, as sales of LED-based lighting products grow 32% year-on-year.

Space applications in Korea and Brazil help to boost UK company's high-performance imaging business.

The industrial behemoth is about to start building the largest panel factory in the US, and expects to begin commercial shipments in 2013.

The world's dominant lithography equipment supplier aims for commercial productivity levels by mid-2012, after problems with light sources.

"Multi-million" euro agreement covers engineering and flight model phases of a next-generation optical payload for Earth observation.

Analysts at Solarbuzz identify more than 1000 non-residential PV projects in China, and estimate a project pipeline of 14GW.

Holland Private Equity becomes the largest external shareholder in the developer of water-jet-guided laser cutting technology.

Jury returns a verdict of non-infringement in the patent saga, five years after IMRA America sued IPG Photonics.

Acquisition of the Israeli photonics company will help to insulate Newport from an anticipated down-cycle in the semiconductor equipment market.

Only a handful of publicly listed companies showed any gain in value in Q3 2011, although the industrial laser sector still looks strong.