NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI-Hexagon AB has entered into a formal agreement to purchase the measuring equipment businesses of Romer CimCore Inc. (Carlsbad, CA), a manufacturer of portable articulated arm coordinate measurement machines (CMMs) and specialized accessories such as laser scanning probe heads and the GridLOK measurement volume expansion system sold under the Romer brand in the United States, and the CimCore brand elsewhere in the world.
Portable articulated arm 3-D measurement systems have a variety of uses in the automotive, aerospace and general industrial markets. They are particularly useful for applications such as large aerospace assemblies, where bringing the measuring device to the workpiece is more practical than bringing the workpiece to a measuring device.