ULM, Germany — The management team of WITec GmbH recently announced that WITec was acquired by UK-based Oxford Instruments plc and in the future will be part of Oxford Instruments’ Materials Analysis Group. WITec’s founders, Dr. Joachim Koenen and Dr. Olaf Hollricher, will continue as Managing Directors, and the well-established WITec brand will be retained in the new organizational structure.
Founded in 1997, WITec grew from a small university spin-off into an innovative Raman imaging company. It made notable progress in developing microscopy technology and installed more than a thousand Raman, AFM and SNOM systems worldwide.