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ASSA ABLOY Acquires Omni-ID in the US

Omni-ID is a Rochester, NY-based manufacturer of RFID tags and industrial IoT hardware devices.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

ASSA ABLOY has acquired Omni-ID, a leading manufacturer of RFID tags and industrial IoT hardware devices for passive and active tagging, tracking, monitoring and alerting ap-plications, based in the US.

“I am very pleased to welcome Omni-ID into the ASSA ABLOY Group. Omni-ID is a strate-gic technological addition to the ASSA ABLOY Group and reinforces our current RFID and IoT offering and provides complementary growth opportunities,” said Nico Delvaux, pres-ident and CEO of ASSA ABLOY.

“In addition to broadening our value-added RFID components and active identification devices offering, the acquisition enhances our ability to serve customers in India and Chi-na by expanding our sales and manufacturing footprint, an important step in extending our industrial IoT technology into emerging markets,” added Björn Lidefelt, EVP and head of Global Technologies business unit HID Global.

Omni-ID was founded in 2007 and has 170 employees. Based in Rochester, NY, it will be part of HID’s Identification Technologies Business Area. Sales in 2020 amounted to about $13 million (approx. MSEK 110).
 

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