Meprolight shooting for synergy
Meprolight is planning to create more of a ‘synergy’ with sister company IWI in order to best integrate its weapon sights onto firearms, company sources have stated.
Speaking to Shephard at a briefing in Tel Aviv, Israel on 19 March, Benny Kokia, director of sales and marketing for Meprolight, said: 'Synergy is very important for the group. In the future [firearms] will be more of an integrated system.
'When IWI is creating the new generation of rifles, they're considering the optics,' he said, adding that the R&D divisions in the companies are sitting down and concentrating on co-operation now.
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