From Salvage to Space

Recently, the Edmunds signed a deal to sell the division to Science Kit & Boreal Laboratories, a division of VWR Scientific Products. The Edmunds—who then changed the company’s name to Edmund Industrial Optics—now were free to move full bore into the b-to-b world of industrial optics.

Robert Edmund’s first move was to acquire the assets of Plummer Precision Optics, a company that specializes in custom design and manufacturing for military and defense applications—thus opening a whole new market for the three-generation family business.