Sunshine Through the Rain

We here at the blog have been a little remiss in updating this little thing (oops! sorry!). It’s been a whirlwind of activity here especially with the year slowly winding down. Here’s what we’ve been up to for end of Q3-beginning of Q4.

(1) IDEX ASA-IONICS Agreement

At the end of Q3 we inked a licensing agreement with IDEX ASA providing us the rights to manufacture and sell fingerprint sensor products based on IDEX’s patented SmartFinger technology.

You can check out our blog feature here
And the more comprehensive press release here

(2) Typhoon Ketsana/Ondoy

Massive flooding

The Philippines experienced the worst rainfall and flooding in recorded history when Typhoon Ketsana/Ondoy swept through the country late September. The typhoon dumped more than a month’s worth of rain in just 12 hours, swamping entire towns, setting off landslides and leaving neighborhoods in the capital with destroyed houses, overturned vehicles and roads covered in mud and debris. Over 430,000 people were affected by this calamity. To make matters worse, 4 other typhoons have come and gone since then hampering relief efforts.

We at Ionics organized our own outreach program in an attempt to help out one of the hardest hit areas in the south (near our factories). With the help of management and volunteers, we were able to put together food packages for over 1600 whole families (not individuals).  Just doing what we can to help those devastated by this catastrophic event.

Some pictures:

Ionics staff putting together relief packages

Ionics staff handing out relief goods

IDEX ASA and Ionics EMS Inc. Enter Into Strategic License Agreement.

One of the things we meant to update you on earlier is our exciting licensing agreement with IDEX ASA to manufacture their fingerprint sensor products. As the world gets smaller and technology becomes even more accessible over time, security threats tend to become more prevalent. These products are the answer to the growing demand for increased identity-security measures.

The strategic IP licensing agreement provides Ionics rights to manufacture and sell fingerprint sensor products based on IDEX’s patented SmartFinger technology. The Agreement entails transfer of IDEX’s sensor products to Ionics’ manufacturing plant enabling the partners to serve the high volume markets. Ionics possesses manufacturing expertise, supply-chain management skills and customer channels and is thus perfectly suited to advance the award-winning SmartFinger technology to cost-effective, high quality, high-volume production.

A little background on IDEX ASA — it is a Norwegian firm specializing in fingerprint imaging and recognition technology. It won the Frost & Sullivan “2009 Global Swipe Sensor Product Differentiation Innovation of the Year Award.”

As you can probably guess, we are thrilled about this agreement and are looking forward to a fruitful and successful partnership.

For more information on IDEX, Ionics and this agreement please visit: http://www.ionics-ems.com/idex_ionics.html