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Prosilica renamed

Prosilica’s integration into the Allied Vision Technologies group is now complete and it has been incorporated as Allied Vision Technologies Canada.
February 2, 2012 Read time: 1 min
Prosilica’s integration into the 518 Allied Vision Technologies group is now complete and it has been incorporated as Allied Vision Technologies Canada. Its new CEO is Michael Cyros, who also heads AVT’s subsidiary in the USA, Allied Vision Technologies. Allied Vision Technologies acquired Prosilica in July 2008. The Canadian camera manufacturer had successfully established itself in the market by pioneering the technology of digital cameras with Gigabit Ethernet interface (GigE Vision).

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