History (1995): EMASS Acquires Grau

EMASS Inc. (Garland, TX), a commercial products group within the $2 billion company E-Systems, Inc. (Dallas, TX), is now an independent, fully-owned subsidiary of E-Systems.

Also, EMASS has acquired two companies and certain rights from a third: 1/ Advanced Archival Products (Littleton, CO); 2/ an 80% interest in Grau Automation (Böhmenkirchen, Germany); 3/ the exclusive rights to manufacture and distribute Grau libraries in the US from Bosch Storage Systems (Bridgman, Ml).

Grau is an European manufacturer of automated storage 3480/3490 libraries and associated software for mainframe computers. Its installed base is a dozen libraries in the US and just over one hundred in Europe.

In 1992, Bosch International bought a 30% interest in Grau Automation. Some of its robots were sold by IBM and Hitachi Data Systems.

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue 85, published on February 1995