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QTF, a Tampa-area firm founded in 1991, produces optical components and laser crystal coatings, according to its website.

The acquisition, which includes a 14,000-square-foot plant, will allow Edmund Optics to boost its laser optics manufacturing capabilities, according to Samuel Sadoulet, the Barrington firm’s president and chief operating officer.

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After an initial reliance on catalog sales, he moved the business in 1948 to its Barrington location, where an Edmund Scientific store sold telescopes, binoculars and microscopes.

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The firm expanded into industrial optics and in 1995 opened its first foreign office in Tokyo. The company now has locations in China, Germany, France and South Korea, among other countries.

The South Jersey firm, with locations across the United States and abroad, designs and makes optical components, lenses and other products. It employs about 200 people at its Gloucester Pike headquarters.

In that show, the company's account says, Bart Simpson brings a box of locusts from Edmund Scientific to his new next-door neighbor.

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BARRINGTON – A local firm that began by selling surplus optical equipment to hobbyists has grown into an international business with more than 1,000 employees.