JAI Signs Integrys as Channel Distributor in Canada
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, February 26, 2007 - JAI Inc., a leading manufacturer of high-performance industrial cameras, today announced that it had signed a distribution agreement with Integrys Limited of Mississauga, Ontario, to act as a channel distributor for JAI's full line of industrial camera products throughout Canada.
Integrys is a leading supplier of specialized products and support services for OEMs and system integrators with locations in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto (Mississauga), Ottawa, and Montreal. The agreement between JAI and Integrys enables Integrys to offer the full line of JAI and PULNiX camera brands to customers in the machine vision, medical, and scientific communities.
"Integrys is a great fit as a distribution partner for JAI," said Steve Borochoff, vice president of sales and marketing for JAI. "With their 40 years of experience across a wide range of specialized technology products, including image processing, they understand our technology and, more importantly, they have a tremendous understanding of the users of these products."
According to Brian Flippance, president and CEO of Integrys, "We are excited about partnering with JAI to bring these outstanding products to our customers in Canada. Designers of vision systems are continuing to push the limits of camera technology, and JAI's broad line of high performance cameras will enable us to provide a wide range of choices to meet our customers' needs."
About Integrys Limited
For over 40 years, Integrys Limited has been the Canadian leader in supplying integrated solutions to mission critical-focused OEMs and System Integrators. Integrys Limited is an ISO 9001-2000 certified enterprise and a subsidiary of Allan Crawford and Associates. Offering high-availability solutions, Integrys meets the needs of the most complex and demanding of today's applications. Integrys' infrastructure supports a full range of requirements for leading companies in telecommunications, computer telephony, industrial, factory automation, data acquisition, image processing, transportation, aerospace and military market spaces. With its complete line of stand-alone hardware, software solutions, integration, and other services, Integrys offers the balance of vision, knowledge, and technology needed to deliver true value-added solutions.
About the JAI Group
JAI is a manufacturer of high quality, industrial-grade cameras for the machine vision, transportation, military, aerospace, homeland security, medical and scientific markets. JAI provides the broadest camera offering of any industrial camera manufacturer in the world. JAI's product line features both CCD and CMOS technologies, spatial resolutions from VGA to multi-mega pixel, progressive scan and interlaced format, and sensitivity to light levels as low as .00001 lux. Camera offerings include both monochrome and color, capture rates from real-time to over 1,000 fps, and a wide variety of physical interfaces including Camera Link(TM) and the new GigE Vision Gigabit Ethernet standard.
Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, JAI has subsidiaries in Japan, the US, and the UK. The JAI Group has annual sales of more than $70 million (USD) and employs 250 people worldwide.
JAI has two primary businesses: Camera Solutions and Traffic Solutions. Camera Solutions is a component supplier that designs, manufactures and markets CCD and CMOS camera solutions primarily for the ITS, medical and industrial machine vision markets. JAI cameras help improve customer businesses in a variety of ways, whether by improving quality and accuracy, lowering costs, increasing yields, or simply enabling better service. The Traffic Solutions business unit is one of the world's leading manufacturers of specialized traffic systems. Solutions are based on JAI-developed hardware and software, which is often integrated with third-party products.
Contact:
Rich Dickerson,
JAI, Inc.,
408-383-4394,
rdi@jai.com
