Laird Technologies has announced its acquisition of Cattron Group International. The purchase is claimed to expand the scope of Laird Technologies' wireless machine-to-machine product offering and the markets those products serve. The company designs and supplies reliable wireless remote control systems serving the railroad, mining, and industrial markets globally. In addition to providing custom wireless RC (remote control) systems that enable external operation of heavy equipment and vehicles as well as ongoing service for these RC systems, the company provides fully hosted networked applications software enabling customers to monitor their remote-controlled assets in real time.
Cattron's headquarters are in Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, and they have additional facilities in North America (Toronto, Canada; Montreal, Canada; Escondido, California), Europe (Monchengladbach, Germany; Walton-on-Thames, UK), South America (Campinas, Brazil), Africa (Johannesburg, South Africa), and Asia (Shanghai, China).
