Roctest Diversifies its Efforts in the Fiber Optic Market.ST-LAMBERT, Quebec--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 1997-- ROCTEST (ME:RTT RTT - Round-Trip Time ) Roctest, in cooperation with Capimont and Le Fonds de solidarite des travailleurs du Quebec (FTQ FTQ Fédération des Travailleurs du Québec FTQ First Time Quality FTQ Fetch Target Queue FTQ Fond de Solidarité de La Fédération des Travailleurs du Québec ), invests 110,000 dollars on a total investment of 320,000 dollars for the start-up of Kromafibre Inc. in which Roctest will hold 13.33 percent of the shares. The new company will manufacture filters and other components for the new generation of very high bit rate frequency-division-multiplexed(FDM (1) (Fused Deposition Modeling) See 3D printing. (2) (Frequency Division Multiplexing) Transmitting multiple data signals simultaneously over a single wire by using multiple carriers, each having a unique center frequency. ) fiber optic communication systems. These components will allow to combine and separate the many communication channels transmitted by an optical fiber, and also to restore optical signal quality after their transmission over long distances. The world market for these new components is expanding rapidly and should reach 100 million dollars in the year 2000. The star-up of Kromafibre is made possible by the expertise of its president and shareholder, Francois Ouellette, who holds more than 18 years experience in optics in Canada and abroad, mainly in the field of Bragg gratings See fiber Bragg grating. , a technology which is at the core of Kromafibres's developments. Through this second start-up that it promotes, the first one being Fiso Technologies of Quebec city in 1994, a manufacturer of Fabry- Perot fiber optic sensors under license of National Optics Institute, Roctest confirms its leadership position in the marketing of a revolutionary line of fiber optic sensors, under the name of Sensoptic, to be used in a large civil engineering structures, its traditional field of activity. Kromafibre's contributing to this strategy will be essentially in the development of advanced manufacturing techniques which will find common applications for Kromafibre's and Roctest's needs. Roctest, a public company listed at the Montreal Stock Exchange Montreal Stock Exchange See Bourse de Montreal, Inc. (Canadian Derivatives Exchange) , is involved in the design and manufacturing of geotechnical and structural measuring instruments used worldwide in major engineering projects such as dams, mines and tunnels. In addition, Roctest, through its affiliate GeoStructure markets environmental instrumentation instrumentation, in music: see orchestra and orchestration. instrumentation In technology, the development and use of precise measuring, analysis, and control equipment. . Roctest owns subsidiaries in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , France and Canada. CONTACT: Roctest Ltd. Pierre Carrier, 514/ 465-1113 514/ 465-1938 (FAX) or Roctest Ltd. Jocelyn St-Denis, 514/ 465-1113 514/ 465-1938 (FAX) |
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