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:
• NEOS (2019)
• Endeavor Robotics (2019)
• Aeryon Labs (2019)
• Seapilot (2018)
• Acyclica (2018)
• Prox Dynamics (2016)
• Point Grey Research (2016)
• DVTEL (2015)
• DigitalOptics micro-optics business (2013)
• MARSS (2013)
• Traficon (2012)
• Aerius Photonics (2011)
• TackTick Marine Digital Instruments (2011)
• ICx Technologies (2010)
• Raymarine (2010)
• Directed Perception (2009)
• OmniTech Partners (2009)
• Salvador Imaging (2009)
• Ifara Tecnologías (2008)
• Extech Instruments (2007)
Figure 18.1
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,
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