FEBRUARY 27--Basler Vision Components (Ahrensburg, Germany; www.basler-vc.com) has opened a sales office in France and recruited Sébastien Désessard as key account manager for the French market. BFI Optilas will remain as distributor and will continue to service established business in France. With Sébastien supporting BFI Optilas' activities and working with key accounts, customers will be offered a more rapid response time and differentiated market processing.

In 1991, Sébastien earned engineering diplomas in electronics and computing. In his earlier positions, he gained R&D experience as well as product-management experience at a camera manufacturer. Sébastien can be reached either by phone at +33 1 64 99 51 55 or by e-mail at sebastien.dessessard@baslerweb.com.

Basler-VC designs and manufactures advanced vision components for industrial users. Products include color and monochrome linescan, basic area-scan, and intelligent area-scan digital cameras for high-speed and/or high-resolution applications. Product designs are driven by industry requirements offering easy interfacing, compact size, and a strong price/performance ratio.

Mon Feb 27 11:19:00 CST 2006