Koch Engineered Solutions Acquires Majority Stake in DarkVision Technologies
May 19, 2020
Koch Engineered Solutions (KES), a unit of Koch Industries, acquired a majority stake in DarkVision Technologies and made a significant growth equity investment to support R&D and expansion. The deal brings DarkVision's acoustic imaging hardware and software into KES as part of a strategy to build an integrated asset integrity platform serving NDT and multiple industrial end-markets.
- Targets
- DarkVision Technologies Inc.
- Industry
- Industrial Services
- Location
- British Columbia, Canada
- Transaction Type
- Buyout
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