Teledyne RESON Acquires ATLAS HYDROGRAPHIC Assets

Teledyne RESON A/S announce that its subsidiary, Teledyne RESON GmbH, has acquired assets of ATLAS HYDROGRAPHIC GmbH and that the business, product lines and a number of employees from ATLAS HYDROGRAPHIC GmbH are now part of the Teledyne Marine Acoustics Imaging group.

Teledyne RESON Acquires ATLAS HYDROGRAPHIC Assets

ATLAS HYDROGRAPHIC specializes in high-performance deep-water hydrographic survey solutions for the civil market. The product portfolio consists of deep-water Multibeam Echosounders, Parametric Sub Bottom Profilers that going forward are to be sold under the product line name “Teledyne ATLAS Hydrographic.”

“In Teledyne RESON we are happy to welcome our new colleagues from ATLAS HYDROGRAPHIC GmbH, and this acquisition further strengthens our position to service customers in all core markets,” said Kim Lehmann, President Teledyne Marine Acoustic Imaging Group and Teledyne RESON Group. “With our combined product offering and global reach to our customers, we are now uniquely positioned to provide complete solutions and offer customers a full range of acoustic solutions for new vessel builds for research, deep water, offshore and seismic surveys – and all with state-of-the-art technology including high power multi-ping capable Multibeam Echosounders with ice-protection and advanced deep-water Sub Bottom Profilers.”

“The Teledyne Marine Acoustic Imaging Group has with this acquisition added additional capability”, Kim Lehmann continued, “Our group now includes Teledyne RESON, Teledyne BlueView, Teledyne ODOM Hydrographic and now the new product line Teledyne ATLAS Hydrographic. We have a world leading team of high quality people with strong knowledge of underwater acoustic solutions supporting customers in all parts of the world. It is our ambition to provide strengthened value-add to our customers securing high-quality products and solutions, and by developing new innovative applications through our strong knowledge and unique technology base across the four entities.”

Teledyne RESON GmbH, ATLAS HYDROGRAPHIC GmbH and ATLAS ELEKTRONIK GmbH has entered an strategic agreement to work together to improve the support of existing and new customers over the next couple of years to ensure that our customers get high quality products, services and support.

Teledyne ATLAS Hydrographic’s offerings include the following product range and recognized industry brands:

HYDROSWEEP Multibeam Echosounders, available in a number of different configurations ranging from mid-ocean depth to full-ocean depth performance. Key features include multi-ping capabilities and Sub Bottom Profiler functionality built into the system as well as optional ice protection of the transducers. The growing market for survey vessels going to the artic regions can now be better serviced by Teledyne RESON.

PARASOUND Parametric Sub Bottom Profiler systems. The PARASOUND is hull-mounted parametric sub-bottom profiler, offering rapid high resolution sub-bottom as single profile or in multi-beam mode at an operational cost-efficiency that only a hull-mounted system can provide. It is able to penetrate the seabed more than 200 meters in water depths as deep as 11,000m.

Press Release, August 27, 2014