Barco opens expanded North American facility

Kortrijk, Belgium-based Barco this week officially opened an 88,000-square-foot addition to its North American BarcoView facility in Duluth, Georgia.

Consisting of a two-story addition, the facility will house engineering, sales and marketing activities, as well as customer service and warehousing.

Barco also says that the new facility will allow BarcoView to increase production capacity of its high-performance graphics and video controller boards, high-resolution displays and integrated visualization systems for the defense and security and traffic management markets.

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