OREANDA-NEWS. Nikon Corporation (Kazuo Ushida, President, Tokyo) is pleased to announce that its US subsidiary, Nikon Americas Inc. (Satoshi Hagiwara, President, New York) has made $10 million strategic investment in Tribogenics Inc. (Dale Fox, CEO, California).

In recent years, there is an increasing need for X-ray non-destructive testing. Nikon and Tribogenics intend to work together to expand sales of Handheld X-ray analyzers and Cabinet-Type X-ray CT products. We aim to strengthen product competitiveness and to develop a new market in X-ray non-destructive testing.

As stated in its Medium Term Management Plan, Nikon will expand strategic fields such as the Industrial Metrology Business by pursuing an open innovation policy.