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ISRA VISION per current share at the Annual General Meeting for the
2016/2017 financial year. Isra is therefore increasing its
FOCUS ON EXTERNAL dividend for the eighth time in a row to allow its share-
holders to successively participate directly in the com-
GROWTH CONTINUES pany’s operational development.
The integration of Polymetric GmbH, which was acquired
Isra Vision AG, one of the world’s top in January 2018, is progressing rapidly. In addition to
companies for industrial image process- this technologically motivated takeover, as announced in
ing (machine vision) and a global leader December 2017, the company is continuing its strategy of
in surface inspection of web materials further growth through acquisitions in addition to organic
and 3D machine vision applications, has announced that business expansion. Several acquisition projects are in
the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board will be progress and some are at an advanced stage. The com-
proposing a stock split at the Annual General Meeting on pany is assuming one further deal in the current financial
28 March 2018. Following a capital increase from com- year.
pany funds, each shareholder will receive four more Isra After a good start into the new 2017/2018 financial year,
shares at no charge. For every share held before the split, ISRA is still gearing its strategic and operational planning
shareholders will thus own five shares after the split. The towards structural expansion in all areas of the company
share price will be divided by five accordingly. Sharehold- in preparation for the next big step in revenues beyond
ers’ voting rights or the company’s market capitalization EUR 200 million. Management is planning low double-
or equity will not be affected. digit revenue growth for the 2017/2018 financial year,
Furthermore, the Executive Board and the Supervisory as in the previous year, with margins at least remaining
Board will continue the sustainable dividend policy of stable. The company will publish a detailed forecast at the
past years and will be proposing a dividend of EUR 0.59 end of February 2018.

LISEC
FITLINES – NEW GENERATION FOR ECONOMICAL

MANUFACTURING OF INSULATING GLASS

The new LiSEC FitLines have proven product and the ease of use of the - FitLine 4: Using appropriate tilting
components at the highest techni- line. tables, the flexible spacers are manu-
cal level, the insulating glass lines The basic structure of lines 1-3 is ally set, automatically pressed and
combine good product quality and identical: washing machine, inspec- gas-filled as well as manually sealed.
performance with easy handling even tion and frame mounting station as - FitLine 5: Automatic applicator for
in limited space conditions. well as a gas filling press. In addition flexible spacers, automatic pressing
All LiSEC FitLines are available in line to the standard components, the dif- and fully automatic hotmelt sealing.
sizes 25/20 (sheet size length 2.5m ferences between the three lines are LiSEC, with headquarters in Haus-
and height 2m) and 35/25 (sheet size the following variants: mening/Amstetten, is a globally
length 3.5m and height 2.5m). - Line 1: Manual sealing with tilting operating group, and has been offer-
The FitLine 2 FitLine 2 is particularly table ing individual and complete solutions
short, inexpensive and effective, in - Line 2: Automatic sealing in the field of flat glass processing
size 25/20 with a total length of 27 - Line 3: Automatic sealing with ad- and finishing for over 50 years. The
meters and a cycle time of 51 seconds ditional integrated tilting table for service portfolio includes machines,
for triple insulating glass sheets. special sheets automation solutions and services.
Line 5 is equipped with an automatic Insulating glass lines 1-3 can be LiSEC develops and fabricates glass
spacer applicator in version 35/25 customized (option) using 3-fold and cutting and sorting systems, single
and has a total length of 33m. 4-fold steps and special shapes. components and complete produc-
The machine concepts of FitLines In contrast to the other three ver- tion lines for insulating glass and
1-5 The machine concepts of FitLines sions, lines 4 and 5 are designed with laminated glass fabrication as well as
1-5 have favourable prices favourable an applicator for setting flexible spac- glass edge processing machines and
prices, the high quality of the end ers and differ as follows: tempering machinery.

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