Surveillance tech company snapped up by Halma

La Salle can announce that Halma plc - who operate a range of technology businesses in the safety, medical and environmental sectors have acquired Navtech Radar, who produce innovative commercial radar solutions used in highway monitoring and security surveillance.

Business acquired: Navtech Radar Limited

Activities: Incorporated in 1999, the company design and manufacture commercial millimetre wave radar for three main market ares including: Wide Area Security Solutions and Intruder Detection, Highways Monitoring and Incident Detection and Industrial Sensing for Collision Avoidance and Automation. Their offices are based in Wantage, Oxfordshire.

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Purchaser: Halma plc

Activities: Incorporated in 1894, the company operate within 3 sectors:
Infrastructure Sensors - detecting hazards, and protecting people and property in buildings
Health and Analysis - improving public and personal health; protecting the environment
Industrial Safety - protecting property and people at work
Their UK offices are based in Buckinghamshire.

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Additional info:

Andrew Williams, Halma's chief executive, said: "Navtech is an exciting addition to our infrastructure safety business and builds on our existing strengths in sensing vehicles, people and assets for safety and control applications.

"It has valuable IP in radar-based hardware and software solutions and also adds a new presence in the fast growing highway and critical infrastructure safety market niches.

"As well as adding these new capabilities to the group, I am confident that Navtech will benefit from all of Halma's strategic growth enablers, including international expansion and digital growth, to accelerate and sustain growth in the future."

Halma is based in Amersham while Navtech Radar is headquartered in Wantage.