Indus Holding, an SME holding company which concentrates on the long-term development of its portfolio companies, acquired an 89% stake in Mesutronic, which operates in the measuring technology and control engineering sector. Financial terms were not disclosed. “For 27 years, we have been supplying our customers with tailor-made solutions for the integration of inspection systems with high-frequency metal detectors and foreign body detectors based on X-ray technology in complex production processes,” says Karl-Heinz Dürrmeier, Managing Partner of Mesutronic. “With Indus as a parent company, we can preserve the typical virtues of the German “Mittelstand” while at the same time continuing our swift international growth.”