OREANDA-NEWS. Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that Delair-Tech has acquired its Belgium-based Gatewing Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) engineering and manufacturing business. Delair-Tech is a leading provider of long-range, fixed-wing UAS solutions for industrial inspection and asset management applications headquartered in Toulouse, France. Delair-Tech intends to grow the acquired business as part of its portfolio. Financial terms were not disclosed.

"This transaction is part of our continuing program to tighten our corporate focus," said Ron Bisio, vice president of Trimble's Geospatial Division. "Trimble will remain actively engaged in the market by leveraging its brand-agnostic software technology for a broader range of UAS platforms."

Gatewing has been reported as part of Trimble's Engineering and Construction segment. The divestiture will not have a material impact on either overall or segment financial results.

 

About Delair-Tech

Delair-Tech provides long-range UAV solutions and unique image processing techniques to enable companies to make better decisions. In October 2012, Delair-Tech's DT18 was the first and only UAV in the world certified for Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight (BVLOS) operations. This milestone set the tone for the coming operational standards of long-range UAV. Since then, millions of images have been processed to help inspect and monitor infrastructures from all parts of the world—a testament to the high endurance of Delair-Tech UAV systems—and the company has been tasked with the unique experience of extracting only the most valuable information from the massive amount of generated data. Delair-Tech is headquartered in Toulouse, France. 

About Microdrones

For more than ten years Microdrones stands for robustness, endurance and hard-working engineering. UAS are the company's passion: developing customized, intelligent solutions for various applications, particularly in the industrial sector: aerial inspections of pipelines, monitoring plants or identifing defective solar cell with thermal imaging cameras—all by using GPS navigation. Microdrones has a dedicated team focusing on building the standards for the industrial UAS business around the globe: safe, fast and environmental friendly. More than 1,000 customers worldwide rely on microdrones—everyday the company's engineers, IT specialists, scientific advisors and industry experts are working on finding the best possible solution for them. 

About Trimble

Trimble is transforming the way the world works by delivering products and services that connect the physical and digital worlds. Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data analytics enable customers to improve productivity, quality, safety and sustainability. From purpose built products to enterprise lifecycle solutions, Trimble software, hardware and services are transforming a broad range of industries such as agriculture, construction, geospatial and transportation and logistics.