HTGF sells Luphos to Ametek

Luphos received financing from HTGF in 2008 and 2010, as well as from Wagnisfinanzierungsgesellschaft für Technologieförderung in Rhineland Palatinate. The company used the funding to engineer and build its first measurement systems and to gain entry into the European market.

Ametek seeks to gain access to Luphos' non-contact metrology technology via the transaction. Luphos will join Ametek as part of the company's ultra precision technology division, itself part of the wider electronic instruments group. Ametek, which saw sales of $2bn in 2013, conducts advanced monitoring, testing and calibrating.

Company
Founded in 2006 by three members and the chair of the Institute of Applied Physics at Darmstadt's University of Technology, Luphos specialises in measuring distances and positions with a margin of error of less than one nanometer. This allows for the measurement of complex optical components, such as lenses, axles and bearings.

Luphos has patented its fibre-based multi-wavelength interferometry (MWLI) technology, which solves distance measurement tasks with nanometer precision in a non-contact manner.

People
Andres Olmes is a senior investment manager at HTGF. Jürgen Petter is business director at Luphos.

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