Airmar Acquires Former Materials Systems Inc.
Littleton, MA from Channel Technologies Group (CTG). MSI was founded in 1991, sold to CTG in October 2014, and post-acquisition, will be incorporated as MSI Transducers Corp. AIRMAR’s President and CEO, Matthew Boucher, stated, “The integration of our piezoceramic transducers and sensor technology coupled with MSI’s piezocomposite transducer offerings enables us to diversify our product line and significantly broaden our offerings to the commercial and defense markets. We are excited to add the MSI team to the Airmar family.” MSI’s proprietary process, which involves
FORCE Expands Tidal Energy Project Team
is a professional engineer and certified project manager with background in managing large, multi-disciplinary environmental engineering projects. Ms. Belliveau has a BEng from Dalhousie and an MSc from NYU. Simon Melrose has been named the project manager for the FAST (Fundy Advanced Sensor Technology) platform. Mr. Melrose is a well-known ocean scientist and most recently served as Nova Scotia manager for Oceans Ltd., Canada's largest marine weather and oceanographic company, providing services to both offshore oil and gas operations, as well as mapping the tidal resource in the Minas Passage