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Microsys Technologies Inc. and Transportation Sciences Center of Calspan Announce Partnership to Jointly Market Their Automotive
Safety Products
MISSISSAUGA, ON, June 15, 2006 – Safety comes out on top as the biggest benefactor in a newly formed alliance announced today between
automotive-oriented companies Microsys Technologies Inc. and the Transportation Sciences Center (TSC) of Calspan.
Working together, Mississauga-based Microsys and Calspan can offer complete
barrier test facilities to the automotive safety community, including car makers, major automotive suppliers and government test labs.
“Partnering with Calspan means crash customers around the world can contract
with a single company to set up a new barrier facility with a level of system integration unmatched in the industry,” said Corey Miller, president, Microsys.
Sam Pugliese, director, Calspan Transportation Sciences Center , envisions the complementary capabilities and
resources of both corporations will prove beneficial to the market. “We plan to offer highly integrated products
to the automotive safety community,” said Pugliese. “This is a synergistic partnership that builds on the core strengths of each of our companies, offering total solutions for our customers.”
Located all over the world, Microsys occupant safety customers consist of top automotive manufacturers and
Tier One suppliers, including General Motors, BMW, Honda, Toyota, Key Safety, Toyoda-Gosei, Delphi, Johnson Control, Takata, Lear, Intier, Visteon, and TRW.
For the past 50 years, the Transportation Sciences Center at Calspan in Buffalo, N.Y. has honed their
expertise within the automotive safety community in areas such as the design, manufacture, and integration of test equipment and facilities, crash and component testing, restraint system design and evaluation, tire
research, and vehicle crash worthiness. The Transportation Sciences Center has 29 employees.
Microsys has provided the occupant safety industry with integrated high-speed video, data acquisition, data
management and analysis solutions for airbag deployment and crash test applications for 15 years. The company has 15 employees. For more information on Microsys, visit www.micro-sys.com.
Calspan’s Transportation Sciences Center is the leader in high-quality, independent automotive safety testing,
research, development, testing, and evaluation using state-of-the art facilities since 1948. TSC also provides
custom-engineered test facilities to automotive equipment manufacturers worldwide. For more information on Calspan, visit www.calspan.com.
For further information (reader enquiries or media), contact:
Corey Miller, Microsys Technologies Inc. 1-905-678-3288 ext. 2600
Sam Pugliese, Calspan 1-716-631-6839
Jeffrey Bucki, Travers Collins & Company 1-716-842-2222, ext. 309
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