Nuclear waste cleanup technology specialist Kurion on Tuesday announced its third acquisition in four years – Oxford Technologies, a 15-year-old robotic systems company based in the United Kingdom.
Oxford Technologies provides expertise and technology for remote handling, complex plant assembly, and operations in irradiated areas. Its remote tools have been used in decommissioning projects at Sellafield and Dounreay in the United Kingdom, among others, according to a Kurion press release.
The company will be incorporated into Kurion’s Robotic Systems & Services unit, which has produced more than 180 systems for projects globally, including investigating the damaged reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan.
“Oxford Technologies is the perfect complement to Kurion’s robotics team,” said Kurion CEO William Gallo said in a press release. “Oxford Technologies’ suite of technologies, client base and team of more than 60 highly skilled engineers and project managers will augment the Kurion team and provide an established base of operations for our continued expansion in Europe. The synergy of the two companies will accelerate Kurion’s growth.”
Oxford Technologies co-founder and managing director Alan Rolfe will retire once the deal is complete but will stay on as a consultant. The company’s engineering director, Bernhard Haist, will take over as director for the Oxford Technologies team in the U.K. He will report to Matthew Cole, Kurion Robotics Systems & Services chief, who is moving to the United Kingdom to head up the company’s global remote systems program.
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