Expansion plans are being drawn up for a specialist Bradford firm which has been taken over.

ISIS Products, which is located on the Listerhills Science Park, has been acquired from Datacolour International by a Norwegian company, Technor.

ISIS, which employs 10 workers, is planning to move to bigger premises on the Science Park and will also be taking on extra staff as the business expands.

Renamed Technor ISIS, the company designs and manufactures specialist computer equipment which can be used in hazardous areas.

The computers' terminals allow an operator to control industrial processes without risk of making a spark which could cause an explosion.

Being part of Technor, which has its headquarters in Stavanger, Norway, will allow the firm to grow and increase its export potential.

The new firm will be headed by former ISIS general manager Steve Richardson, who is now managing director.

His management team includes Tim Harrison, who is technical director, and Darren Anderson, technical services manager. Ken Johnson will continue to head the firm's US operation.

Tollak Melberg, Technor's chief executive, said today: "This latest move reinforces and enhances Technor's position as one of the world's leading experts in equipment and systems for hazardous areas.

"ISIS has an excellent reputation in Europe and the USA and is a natural and logical extension of our business."

Steve Richardson added: "Access to key customers and new technology will enable ISIS to realise its potential worldwide.

"We are already working on new products for the next millennium."

Set up in 1983, Technor operates out of four centres in Norway and one in France called Technor Atex.

Technor director Ingulf Egeland and company secretary Magnar Oanes will join the new Technor ISIS board.

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