Case details

CCENT/2008/62 - SPECTRIS / LOCHARD

Lochard

an undertaking with its headquarters in Australia; it manufacturers and supplies equipment for the control and efficient management of environmental noise and provides services associated with the operation of that equipment.

Spectris

A British company quoted on the London Stock Exchange; its activities are structured on the basis of four distinct areas: (i) materials analysis - design and manufacture of analytical systems for materials characterisation; microcontamination monitoring systems for ultraclean environments and manufacturing processes, among others; (ii) test and measurement - supply of equipment (including transducers, sound level meters and analysers for sound and vibration measurement), with applications, in particular, in the aerospace and automobile industries; (iii) in-line instrumentation - including equipment for non-contact laser-based dimensional measuring and ultra-sonic dimensional gauging for flaw detection, with applications in the petrochemical, petroleum and gas, pulp and paper, plastics, and rubber industries, etc; (iv) industrial controls - including high-speed industrial barcode scanning and decoding instruments; operator interfaces, and signal conditioners, with applications in manufacturing processes in general.

Inapplicability (Law 18)

Inapplicability (Law 18)

Conglomerate

Closed

Phase 1

Non-applicable

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