LumaSense Technologies Receives $25.5 Million in Credit Facilities from Comerica Bank
May 10 2007 - 2:35PM
PR Newswire (US)
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Comerica Bank today
announced $25.5 million in credit facilities for LumaSense
Technologies, a leading provider of sensing solutions for the clean
technology, medical and energy sectors. The credit facilities
include a $10.5 million working capital line and a $15 million term
loan. Vivek Joshi, chief executive officer of LumaSense, said: "The
credit lines will be used to increase LumaSense's financial
flexibility as the business expands globally. The facilities from
Comerica provide LumaSense with additional capital to support our
strategy of growing organically and through acquisitions. In
particular, we recently completed our acquisitions of Andros and
Mikron Infrared, leaders in their respective fields of gas and
temperature sensing." The credit facilities were provided through
Comerica's Technology & Life Sciences Division, which has
extensive experience in providing innovative debt financing to
growth companies with proven technology and strong management
teams. "We are extremely pleased to be able to work with LumaSense,
and we look forward to growing the relationship and supporting the
company as it expands its debt financing requirements," said Alan
Jepsen, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of the
Technology & Life Sciences Division. About LumaSense
Technologies, Inc. LumaSense Technologies is a global leader in
providing quality sensor instrumentation to the clean technology,
medical and energy markets. LumaSense is an operating company with
a strategy to acquire other leading sensor instrumentation
companies serving similar customers with complementary technologies
and products. LumaSense's first two acquisitions are industry
pioneers with hundreds of global customers: Luxtron Corporation -
fiber optic temperature measurement sensors and Innova AirTech
Instruments - trace gas monitoring and analysis. In February, 2007,
LumaSense announced the acquisition of Mikron Infrared [NASDAQ:
MIKR], a leading provider of thermal imaging systems and blackbody
calibration instruments. LumaSense is backed by Oak Investment
Partners, a leading multi-stage venture capital firm with a 28-
year history and Element, a leading venture capital investor in
clean technology. About Comerica Bank's Technology & Life
Sciences Division Comerica Bank's Technology & Life Sciences
Division is one of the nation's leading technology banking
practices, offering a wide range of financial services tailored to
corporate customers, entrepreneurs and professionals. Veteran
bankers provide credit and financial services and products to
young, growing, professionally backed technology and life science
companies, as well as to their more mature counterparts. The
Technology & Life Sciences Division serves all major U.S.
technology centers from offices coast-to-coast and its headquarters
in Palo Alto, Calif. Comerica Bank is a subsidiary of Comerica
Incorporated, a financial services company that is among the 20
largest banking companies in the U.S. with $57.5 billion in total
assets at March 31, 2007. For more information, see
http://www.comerica.com/ DATASOURCE: Comerica Bank CONTACT: Media,
Barry Holtzclaw of Comerica Bank, +1-408-556-5111, +1-408-315-6554,
Web site: http://www.comerica.com/
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