4 February 2010 - Halma has acquired Sphereoptics, a producer of custom light-measurement technologies.
Sphereoptics will join Halma's group of photonics businesses as it is merged with light-metrology company Labsphere.
10 August 2009 - Labsphere has appointed new European dealer representatives BFI Optilas SAS to serve France, and BFI Optilas to serve Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
BFI Optilas is a pan-European technical distributor of specialist products and services, including design-engineering support, to the electronics and photonics markets.
It focuses on technology products such as magnetic, lasers, sensors, connectors, electro-optics, imaging, fibre optics, RF plus microwave and other specialty components, systems, assemblies and metals.