FLiDAR Acquired by AXYS Technologies

AXYS Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the FLiDAR shares. Together, AXYS and FLiDAR will be a leading supplier of floating Lidar systems worldwide. AXYS has plans to expand the capabilities of the current FLiDAR office in Belgium to include AXYS’s other offshore measurement offerings such as metocean buoys, TRIAXYS wave buoys and the AXYS-APS Geo-portal. AXYS will centralise its complete European sales, service and engineering team from this new office which aims to continue product development through R&D projects which involve customers, strategic suppliers and commercially focused research centres.

Canada-based and privately held, AXYS has a history in environmental monitoring for the last 40 years. In 2009, AXYS developed the WindSentinel floating Lidar (image) to meet the wind resource assessment needs of the offshore wind industry. The WindSentinel has since evolved into a dual-Lidar platform, the most reliable and data-redundant floating Lidar in the world.

Belgium-based FLiDAR was formed in 2011 as a joint venture between 3E and Offshore Wind Assistance (part of the DEME group) to become a world-leading provider of floating Lidar offshore wind measurement technology, well-known for its accuracy and European service team.