IROQOUIS, ON – Ross Video is buying Norpak Corporation from Rovi Corporation, the company announced Tuesday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, and the sale is scheduled for completion on September 17, 2010.
Based in Kanata, just outside of Ottawa, Norpak is well known as the manufacturer of Nielsen encoders and closed captioning Inserters as well as VBI, VANC and transport stream data insertion products. As an openGear partner for the past three years, it also offers a range of openGear compliant data insertion products.
Ross said that it will integrate Norpak operations and personnel into Ross’ Ottawa-based research and development centre and Iroquois manufacturing facility. Ross will continue to sell and service the Norpak product portfolio, which will transition to the Ross brand.
“We are excited to expand our corporate capabilities deeply into the data insertion technology area,” said CEO David Ross, in the announcement. “Norpak’s product portfolio and experience in broadcast data insertion will help Ross provide more complete customer solutions and will be a significant benefit to our openGear and other product lines as we move forward.”
