BELGIUM: Barco, the image processing company, today signed a contract with TAN Projektionstechnologie GmbH & Co.KG and TAN AG, based in Düsseldorf, Germany and Marin, Switzerland.

The contract will enable BARCO to incorporate the existing customer base of TAN ( a pioneer in the virtual and augmented reality segment), its current orders and projects, besides technological and market know how and an experienced team of system engineers, system integrators, sales and support people. With the domain of virtual and augmented reality showing a lot of potential, Barco hopes to reinforce its commitment and contribution to the Virtual & Augmented Reality market.

The increase in the system engineer team, the system integrators and sales and support teams will create new synergies at BARCO, says a company release, enabling Barco to expand and improve its services and support to both Tan and Barco customers. The contract with Tan will enlarge the share of Barco in the German market, the release says.

Kortrijk, Belgium headquartered Barco's three key activities are active in image processing, with BarcoProjection active in various markets of large screen visualization, BarcoView developing and manufacturing display systems for life critical applications, while BarcoVision develops systems for visual inspection and quality control.