2007 |
COMET's takeover of Hamburg based high-tech company YXLON International Group Holding GmbH after a succesful capital increase of total 145'000 new shares at a strike price of CHF 288 per share. |
2005 |
COMET sells the Dosimetry business unit to a member of its previous management. The new owner takes over the entire organization in Switzerland and France in a newly founded legal entity called Dosilab. |
2004 |
COMET acquires the assets of FEINFOCUS.
In June, COMET successfully completes a capital increase. A total of 100,000 new shares is placed at the then current market price. In November, COMET decides to strengthen the core competences of X-Ray and RF technologies by no longer pursuing the mass spectrometry development project. COMETs new business unit FEINFOCUS introduces the COUGAR versatile X-Ray platform. |
2003 |
COMET China is established in Shanghai.
FEINFOCUS introduces three new configurations of the FOX series, for 2D/3D inspection, high resolution / high contrast digital imaging, and wafer bump inspection. |
2002 |
COMET focuses on industrial X-Ray products and discontinues the medical X-Ray operations.
An own, newly constructed building in Flamatt FR is now home to all COMET business units that had formerly been spread out over six different locations in Berne.
Starting December 17, COMET's shares are listed on the main market segment at the Swiss Exchange in Zurich, delisting from the Bernese Small Cap Stock Exchange. FEINFOCUS introduces the multifocus X-Ray tube with three modes (nanofocus, microfocus, high power). |
2001 |
COMET adapts the technology of vacuum capacitors for the needs of the emerging flatpanel industry and becomes world market leader. FEINFOCUS introduces the FOX system, the industry's first nanofocus X-Ray inspection system. |
2000 |
COMET starts development of a Cryo TOF Mass Spectrometer.
FEINFOCUS introduces the TIGER system for oblique views at high magnifications. |
1998 |
COMET starts sales activity in China for all product lines.
FEINFOCUS introduces the micro3D Visualiser system for 2D/3D X-Ray inspection. |
1996 |
COMET goes public through an IPO at the Bernese Small Cap Stock Exchange. |
1994 |
COMET receives the ISO 9001 certification and keeps it until the present day. |
1992 |
COMET North America is established in Norwalk CT, USA (later to be relocated to Stamford, CT |
1990 |
COMET enters the Personal Dosimetry Market in Switzerland and becomes market leader. COMET adapts the technology of vacuum capacitors for the needs of the emerging semiconductor industry and becomes world market leader. |
1988 |
FEINFOCUS develops their first generation of multi-layer test systems. |
1987 |
FEINFOCUS introduces their first microfocus X-Ray system series called "20". |
1982 |
Near Hanover in Germany, German engineer Alfred Reinhold develops the first commercially viable microfocus X-Ray Tube and founds FEINFOCUS, which will be acquired by COMET in 2004. |
1975 |
COMET starts development of metal-ceramic X-Ray Tubes for industrial applications and becomes world market leader. |
1965 |
COMET diversifies into Vacuum Capacitors for broadcasting applications and becomes world market leader. |
1956 |
COMET builds Rotation Anode X-Ray Tubes under licensing agreement with Machlett who take a 20% stake in COMET. |
1948 |
COMET is founded by a group of Swiss Investors to manufacture Fixed Anode Tubes for medical applications. The company is headquartered in the south western part of Berne, Switzerland. |