The Right Vision
STEMMER IMAGING is one of Europe’s leading machine vision technology providers for science and industry. The company has gone through some significant changes over the last few years, further cementing its leading position in Europe and beyond, as UK Managing Director Mark Williamson explained to Romana Moares.
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TEMMER IMAGING offers the optimum combination of innovative products, intelligent consulting and extensive service, all coming together to provide a complete solution. As a provider of industrial machine vision systems and components, such as cameras, optics, illumination, cabling and especially its proprietary software, the company has built a strong position in the dynamically growing market. The German based company reached an important milestone in 2018. Its founder, Wilhelm Stemmer, handed over responsibility for the family business and sold his shares to SI HOLDING GmbH, a company of the PRIMEPULSE SE Group, and several of the company managers. The change in ownerships was not the only key event. On 22 January 2018, the company announced the placement of new and existing ordinary shares as part of an initial public offering in the Scale segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange’s Open Market. “We are now a public company. The issue proceeds are intended to be used to implement the company’s ambitious plans for expansion and innovation. In particular, we plan to strengthen our competitive position in the European 120 Industry Europe
market, to make targeted use of growth potential in Asia and to develop innovative products, solutions and services.” said Mr Williamson. “The floatation enabled us to execute a growth strategy - we have acquired two additional companies, the French ELVITEC and Dutch Datavision, both specialist in advanced imaging and machine vision solutions. In addition we invested in Perception Park, an innovative software provider focused on hyperspectral imaging based in Austria,” he says, adding that in the last financial year, STEMMER IMAGING achieved an outstanding financial performance of over €100 million in turnover.
Novel applications Mr Williamson says that the company is continuing to develop its product portfolio through both third-party products, creating vision subsystems for OEM’s and creation of proprietary software solutions. He explains that vision technology does not only achieve extraordinary results in industrial applications, it is also very useful in other areas: “Our products are applied in sports, traffic, broadcast and other fields, demonstrating the wide range of use. For
