Lake expands overseas ops

Lake Image Systems' UK managing director Martin Keats said the company was "very optimistic about tackling the Australian and Indian markets" after using Ipex to announce two distribution agreements to support the growth in sales of its inspection systems in these areas.

The vision control and verification systems manufacturer has agreed deals with Dataform Paper Processing and Propix Technologies, both of which will support distribution of its Discovery PQ and Multiscan products.

Australian company Dataform Paper Processing is working towards a 10-system distribution project while Propix Technologies has a proven track record in the sale of visions systems.

The combination of both agreements are expected to deliver revenues of more than €300,000 (£257,000) before the end of 2010.

The Discovery PQ and Multiscan products form part of Lake Image Systems' Discovery Suite, which launched on the opening day of Ipex. The new suite also includes Discovery Enterprise, its server-based database engine.

"We are delighted that all the development work has come to fruition in time for Ipex, where we expect the product to make quite a splash," said Keats.