Formerly known (until 2005) as GSI Lumonics Inc , GSI Group Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells precision photonic and motion control components and subsystems to original equipment manufacturers in the medical, industrial, and electronics markets. The company operates through three segments: Laser Products, Medical Technologies, and Precision Motion. The Laser Products segment designs, manufactures, and markets photonics-based solutions. This segment offers galvanometer laser scanners and scanning solutions, such as laser scanhead; and CO2 lasers for coding, marking, engraving, and cutting of non-metals, laser sintering, laser converting, and laser aesthetics. It also offers fiber lasers for laser sintering, laser converting, additive manufacturing, and micromachining, as well as for material processing, including laser cutting, machining, welding, and drilling. This segment markets its products under the brand names of Cambridge Technology, Synrad, JK Lasers, and ExoTec Precision. The Medical Technologies segment designs, manufactures, and markets a range of medical grade technologies comprising visualization solutions, imaging informatics products, optical data collection and machine vision technologies, thermal printers, and light and color measurement instrumentation. This segment sells its products under the NDS, NDSsi, Dome, JADAK, General Scanning, and Photo Research brand names. The Precision Motion segment designs, manufactures, and markets optical encoders, air bearing spindles, and precision machined components. This segment markets its products under the brand names of MicroE Systems and Westwind. GSI Group Inc. sells its products through its direct sales force, as well as through resellers and distributors, including manufacturers’ representatives worldwide. The company was formerly known as GSI Lumonics Inc. and changed its name to GSI Group Inc.
