Wenglor Sensoric acquires illumination expert TPL Vision

“We are very pleased to be able to significantly strengthen Wenglor’s product portfolio in the machine vision area through the acquisition of TPL Vision,” says Wenglor managing director Rafael Baur. “The additional know-how and almost 16 years of experience of TPL in the field of industrial illumination technologies are a real advantage. Wenglor and TPL will achieve great things together”

The two central locations of TPL Vision in Perth, Scotland and La Chevrolière, France, where the company moved into a new production facility just this year, will remain in operation. All employees will remain part of the independent Wenglor business unit. This also means that existing TPL customers will continue to be supported by their usual contact persons.

“Wenglor and TPL share not only a young, dynamic and family-oriented corporate culture, but also the passion for innovative technologies,” confirms Daniel Huber, who will be managing director of TPL Vision.

TPL Vision offers a comprehensive product range of different illumination technologies. Thanks to the bright LEDs – so-called power LEDs – objects and surfaces can be perfectly illuminated in any situation and complex tasks can be solved optimally with vision systems, smart cameras or vision sensors. In addition to backlights, spot, ring, bar or dome lighting are also part of the product range, which includes several thousand products. The expertise of Wenglor’s new business unit also includes special illumination systems for the food industry or UV light.

“The wide variety of different illuminations solutions enables us to offer our customers the right combination of camera system, lighting, analysis module and software as a complete package for all types of applications,” says Christian Vollrath, head of the computer vision business unit at Wenglor. “This will allow us to further expand our position as a full-service provider in the Machine Vision sector.”