Maysville, Kentucky, USA (May 8, 2025)– As part of its major commitment to bring manufacturing of precision measurement instruments back to the United States, Carlson Software announced several new initiatives at their 2025 User Conference. First, American manufacturing is already under way at their Maysville, Kentucky, headquarters—a high-accuracy GNSS base station called the Carlson VASCO-B. Secondly, they have purchased an adjoining property to extend their manufacturing space and capabilities.
Carlson President and Founder Bruce Carlson speaks at the 2025 Carlson User Conference.
American-made manufacturing and assembly has now been under way at Carlson´s Kentucky headquarters for several months. Building on their years of experience in the manufacture of high-precision measurement devices at their branch location in York, UK, Carlson has now begun producing products for the North American market in Maysville, while continuing production in their UK facility for international markets.
The VASCO-B GNSS base station.
To support this new American-made push, Carlson has purchased an adjacent “sister” building to their headquarters—both buildings being built in 1915, in the same design, by the same builder. Carlson has already begun work to establish manufacturing and assembly in the new building.
Carlson´s newly purchased building, adjacent to Carlson´s headquarters on the right.
The first new product to be made in America is the Carlson VASCO-B, a flexible, best-in-class GNSS base station for use in permanent installations to provide RTK positioning corrections for a localized site or as part of a base network configuration. Broadcasting RTK over cellular, UHF or network and tracking all satellite constellations with Carlson´s own RTK engine, GAMA, the VASCO-B provides high accuracy positioning for the land surveying, civil engineering, machine control, GIS, and other industries.
But the story doesn’t end there. Expect more announcements from Carlson, who will be delivering totally new, industry-beating, completely in-house designed products as production ramps up in Maysville. Watch this space!
About Carlson Software
Founded in 1983, Carlson Software Inc. specializes in CAD design software, field data collection, laser measurement and machine control products for the civil engineering, surveying, GIS, construction, and mining industries worldwide, providing one-source technology solutions for the entire project cycle. Carlson Software is headquartered in Maysville, Ky., U.S.A., with branch offices in Boston, Mass.; Almere, The Netherlands; Brisbane, Australia; Ottawa, Canada; and York, England.
