Precision Team: Topcon Acquires Digi-Star

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Topcon Positioning Group has acquired Digi-Star, a global agricultural solutions provider of weight sensors and control systems for feeding, planting, fertilizer, and harvest equipment manufacturers.

“After several years of working on development projects together, we are delighted with this acquisition,” said Ray O’Connor, president and CEO of Topcon Positioning Group. “Digi-Star and Topcon are a perfect fit, bringing complementary technologies and distribution channels to our rapidly growing precision agricultural division.”

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Based in Fort Atkinson, WI, Digi-Star offers electronic equipment, precision sensors, optical yield and feed management sensors, displays, position verification, and software used by farmers and other equipment operators globally to precisely measure and analyze valuable data from critical farming processes.

Digi-Star has a unique balance of expertise in the livestock and grain equipment markets. The company enhanced its agricultural applications and added construction experience following its 2012 purchase of RDS Technology, based in the United Kingdom.

Topcon also added additional global expertise with its 2014 acquisition of Wachendorff Electronik, a German-based manufacturer of in-cab consoles.

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Mac Moore, president and CEO of Digi-Star, said, “Topcon and Digi-Star have numerous synergies with electronics, sensors, and integration of specific user interfaces for the agriculture and industrial markets that will complement each other’s customers. Both companies will benefit from the expanded product lines and solutions that progressive customers depend upon for maximum profitability.”

Digi-Star currently employs more than 220 employees in its three locations, with approximately half located in the U.S. or Europe. Its operations will continue to be based in Fort Atkinson, WI.

 

Source – Topcon Positioning Group

 

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