Industrial Optics innovative products plans get a boost

In the coming years the firm will spend zł.90 million on developing innovative products using technologies of Italian Galileo and achievements of the Military Technical Academy (WAT). Cooperation with the foreign firm is related to offset obligations of Oto Melara, provider of armed turrets for the Rosomak armored transporter. Following two years of hard bargaining, the Italian company which owes EUR 308 million in offset obligations, will not only render accessible technology to manufacture Galileo cameras, but will also supply the Polish plant with necessary equipment. "Some solutions of the optical company have already become technological hits. PCO is one of the most innovative companies of the state arms sector," said Andrzej Kiński, head of magazine Nowa Technika Wojskowa. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B7) M.M.