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Omnisens SA develops measurement and monitoring systems. It provides measurement for energy, oil and gas, pipeline, power, civil engineering and geotech. The company offers asset integrity and long range distributed temperature monitoring solutions for pipeline integrity monitoring, ground movement detection, and roads and railways infrastructure monitoring; structural health monitoring solutions for civil engineering projects, tunnels, bridges, dams, and nuclear plants and dynamic strain/temp monitoring solutions. Omnisens was founded by Andre Bals, Marc Nikles Bals and Ion Bals in 1999 and is headquartered in Morges, Switzerland.

Chromis Fiberoptics, Inc. designs, manufactures, and distributes perfluorinated graded-index polymer optical fibers. The firm develops technology of plastic optical fiber and offers custom fiber design and manufacturing services. Its product line includes bare fibers; optical connectors; finishing tools; media converters; patch cords; and simplex/duplex premises cables, as well as custom cables comprising flat cables, distribution cables, hybrid cables, ribbon cables, and other specialty cables. The firm's products are used as solution for: data center interconnects; consumer electronics; enterprise networking; industrial automation; mobile platforms; and medical photonics. The company was founded by Whitney R. White and Miri Park in June 2004 and is headquartered in Warren, NJ.

Verrillon, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets fiber optic components. It offers optical fibers for harsh environments, such as temperature and pressure monitoring systems, gyroscopes, fiber lasers and communication components and modules. The firm also provides fibers that are encapsulated in a variety of metallic tubes; avionic cabled fibers for intra avionic platform communications; harsh environment optical fibers for extreme well conditions and custom fiber optic solutions. The company was founded in 2000 by Abdel Soufiane and is headquartered in Duncan, SC.