Tesa SA

Tesa SA is a Swiss company in precision measurement products. It was set up in 1941 and is currently headquartered in Renens, Switzerland. It is a division of Hexagon AB, a Swedish multinational corporation.[1]

Not to be confused with Tesa SE, a German company manufacturing adhesives.

In 1967 it became part of the USA Brown & Sharpe group, with which it had already worked together for roughly 10 years.

From the eighties on, Tesa acquired a number of companies and their brands: Roch Rolle, Etalon (1981), Merced Ltd., Roch France, Mauser,[2] Compac Geneve, Cary (2000),[3][4] Sud Messures (2003).

In 2001, the Brown & Sharpe group is bought by the Swedish Hexagon AB group.[5] However, the manufacturing group of Brown & Sharpe was not bought. All precision measurement products of Brown & Sharpe were already manufactured under the Tesa brand, and production (by Tesa) could be done elsewhere.[6]

IMICRO

In 1950 they introduced the IMICRO, a 3-contact bore gauge with an innovative design, which they digitalised in 1998.[7]

The IMICRO has a cone with a spiral to drive the 3 measurement pins outwards by rotation. This gives a higher precision than a conventional cone.[8]

References
  1. , Company website
  2. '', "Swiss-quality metrology spurs division's growth..", Tooling & Production, 1997-02-01, from The Free Library, Nelson Publishing, retrieved 2019-01-29
  3. , Swatch group sells Nivarox-FAR's Cary
  4. Pierre Yvez-Donzé (2014), A Business History of the Swatch Group, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-349-48222-1
  5. , "Hexagon purchases Brown & Sharpe's worldwide metrology business", 2001-05-03, Metrologyworld.com
  6. , Hexagon AB history, retrieved 2015-10-03
  7. ,Company home page about its history (retrieved 2018-06-16)
  8. , IMICRO sales PDF
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