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SYMETRIE is proud to announce MICRONIX USA as the exclusive distributor of our precision positioning systems on the US and Canadian markets starting January 2013.

MICRONIX USA specializes in miniature micro- and nanopositioning components for research markets and has a strong experience in precision positioning systems.
Through this appointment, we look forward to a long and successful partnership with MICRONIX USA.

JORAN is a hexapod designed to position and adjust elements with high precision and with a resolution of 0.5 µrad.

The conception of JORAN, particularly of its actuators and platforms, ensures a great stability and guarantees the positioning quality over time.

Developed at the request of ESRF, it is ideal to support mirrors or vacuum chambers on synchrotrons beamlines.

SYMETRIE’s miniature hexapod BORA won the Innovation Trophy in the "controls and tests" category at Mesurexpo trade show on October 4, 2011.

BORA comes with outstanding characteristics for its small size. With a height of only 157 mm, it can position a 10 kg payload with a 0.1 µm resolution.

The Innovation Trophy was awarded by a jury of professional journalists and industry representatives of vision and measurement fields.

• SYMETRIE just qualified the precision hexapod that will position the microtarget of the MegaJoule Laser, which will be the most energetic laser in the world.
• ASTRIUM uses 5 Sirius hexapods to test satellite antennas.
• Next trade shows : ESMATS, International Congress of Metrology, Opto, Mesurexpovision and Laser

 
SYMETRIE was pleased to receive a group of Italian students of the Torricelli Industrial &Technical Institute of Milan on July 27, 2011.

These future engineers and their teachers discovered the advantages of the hexapod technology compared to stacked stages : low mass, high stiffness, easy use of the six degrees of freedom.
During the visit of SYMETRIE premises, they watched the assembly of our miniature positioners BORA in our workshop.
 
In our metrology laboratory with controlled temperature and humidity, the students were able to discover our technological equipments, such as our high capacity coordinate measuring machine (CMM).

• SYMETRIE has been chosen by the Institute of Spatial Astrophysics to realize a high accuracy positioning system to qualify the SIMBIO-SYS optical instrument, that will explore Mercure in 2014.
• New high accuracy positioning 5 axes system
• New product : BORA, miniature hexapod