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Kontron’s US arm buys AP Labs Group

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TAIPEI, TAIWAN: Kontron’s US subsidiary has acquired expert defense and aerospace systems integrator AP Labs Group.

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AP Labs was established in the year 1984 and has two subsidiaries and Kontron expects additional annual revenue of $30 million.

Kontron plans to integrate AP Labs with its North American headquarters that is also based in San Diego. The company AP Parpro Inc. which is consecutively formed wants to utilize the economical, local production capacities and is situated in a 45,000 sq. ft. facility in Mexico. AP Labs states that it employs 85 people in San Diego.

Kontron's income share in the security application area increased to 16 percent during the previous business year.

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Ulrich Gehrmann, Kontron's CEO said, "AP Labs' complementary system product line also rightly supplements our French subsidiary's board product variety in the security section, which reports steady development, and has historically been free of business cycles,".

"In the year 2008, Kontron acquired the earlier French company Thales Computers SA from Thales Group, strengthening Kontron both in the defense/aerospace area, and regionally in European region."

Gehrmann deems "the opportunity lies in high-margin and very complex systems and solutions, as delivered by AP Labs." AP Labs' strengths in the engineering region should also assist Kontron to further optimize both future growth costs and times to product launch.

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