Product Manual

About FLIR Systems

14 About FLIR Systems

FLIR Systems was established in 1978 to pioneer the development of high-performance

infrared imaging systems, and is the world leader in the design, manufacture, and mar-

keting of thermal imaging systems for a wide variety of commercial, industrial, and gov-

ernment applications. Today, FLIR Systems embraces five major companies with

outstanding achievements in infrared technology since 1958—the Swedish AGEMA In-

frared Systems (formerly AGA Infrared Systems), the three United States companies In-

digo Systems, FSI, and Inframetrics, and the French company Cedip.

Since 2007, FLIR Systems has acquired several companies with world-leading expertise

in sensor technologies:

• Extech Instruments (2007)

• Ifara Tecnologías (2008)

• Salvador Imaging (2009)

• OmniTech Partners (2009)

• Directed Perception (2009)

• Raymarine (2010)

• ICx Technologies (2010)

• TackTick Marine Digital Instruments (2011)

• Aerius Photonics (2011)

• Lorex Technology (2012)

• Traficon (2012)

• MARSS (2013)

• DigitalOptics micro-optics business (2013)

• DVTEL (2015)

• Point Grey Research (2016)

• Prox Dynamics (2016)

Figure 14.1 Patent documents from the early 1960s

FLIR Systems has three manufacturing plants in the United States (Portland, OR, Boston,

MA, Santa Barbara, CA) and one in Sweden (Stockholm). Since 2007 there is also a

manufacturing plant in Tallinn, Estonia. Direct sales offices in Belgium, Brazil, China,

France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Korea, Sweden, and the USA

—together with a worldwide network of agents and distributors—support our internation-

al customer base.

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