Oplink Communications LLC is a
US-based business manufacturing and selling optical components.
Oplink's headquarters is located in
Fremont, California,
[ and it has facilities in China] and Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
.
History
The company was founded in San Jose, California
San Jose, officially San José (; ; ), is a major city in the U.S. state of California that is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley and largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2020 popu ...
in 1995. Oplink moved its manufacturing facility from San Jose to the Zuhai Free Trade Zone in Zhuhai
Zhuhai (, ; Yale: ''Jyūhói''), also known as Chuhai is a prefecture-level city located on the west bank of Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern Guangdong province, People's Republic of China, on the southeastern edge of Pear ...
, China in 2000. The company went public (Nasdaq: OPLK) in 2000, with an initial public offering of 13,700,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $18.00 per share. Oplink moved its headquarters to Fremont, California in 2004. Koch Industries
Koch Industries, Inc. ( ) is an American privately held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas and is the second-largest privately held company in the United States, after Cargill. Its subsidiaries are involved in the ...
acquired Oplink for $445 million in December 2014, and the legal entity changed to Oplink Communications LLC. Oplink is currently owned by Molex, a global electronics components company and Koch Industries
Koch Industries, Inc. ( ) is an American privately held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas and is the second-largest privately held company in the United States, after Cargill. Its subsidiaries are involved in the ...
subsidiary.
Mergers and acquisitions
Oplink acquired Optical Communication Products, Inc. (Nasdaq: OCPI) for $85.3M in 2007.
Oplink was acquired by Koch Industries
Koch Industries, Inc. ( ) is an American privately held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas and is the second-largest privately held company in the United States, after Cargill. Its subsidiaries are involved in the ...
for $445M in 2014.[
]
References
External links
*{{Official website, http://www.oplink.com/
Companies based in Fremont, California
Photonics companies
Optics manufacturing companies