Ushio Inc. has successfully completed the acquisition of the ams OSRAM’s OSRAM Entertainment and Industry (ENI) business, which now operates as Ushio INE GmbH.

This acquisition strengthens Ushio’s global position in specialty lighting and expands its capabilities across entertainment, cinema projection, stage lighting, industrial applications, and high performance professional solutions.

OSRAM is a global leader in semiconductor and traditional automotive & industrial specialty lamps technologies. Furthermore, they also focus on specialty lamps for semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The scope of this transfer includes specialty lamps for semiconductor manufacturing equipment, among others.

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Strengthens Business Portfolio

The sale approximately costed Ushio ¥28.8 billion Japanese (2024 value, approximately US$194 million) and would absorb around 500 ams-OSRAM employees worldwide.

Under Ushio’s New Growth Strategy “Revive Vision 2030”, the company is steadily implementing initiatives for business portfolio revamping, structural reforms, and improvement of capital efficiency. The acquisition is part of revamping its business portfolio.

Ushio expects to achieve a return on invested capital exceeding 10 percent and will significantly contribute to its quantitative targets of 12 percent or more the company set forth in its New Growth Strategy Revive Vision 2030.

Through this takeover, Ushio will further strengthen its competitiveness and raise the level of its revenue base to expand the IP business, and lead it to future consolidation of the light source industry and a faster improvement in production efficiency.

06 March 2026