Apple buys Czech firm PlasmaSolve to toughen up iPhones

Apple, through a subsidiary, has acquired the Brno-based company PlasmaSolve, founded in 2016 by Adam Obrusník. The deal, which came to light through a European Commission filing, closed in April 2026: the American giant has taken over the entire share capital of the firm and will bring on board part of its staff.

The parties have not disclosed the value of the deal or the exact number of specialists moving to Apple. What is known is that PlasmaSolve employs between ten and twenty people.

Besides running the company, Obrusník teaches at a faculty of Masaryk University and works on plasma diagnostics and modeling. That expertise became the foundation of the business: PlasmaSolve started out as a consulting firm in plasma technology and materials science, before launching its own simulation software, MatSight, in 2023.

The program lets manufacturers test the parameters of a process for applying an ultra-thin protective coating to a metal surface before production even begins — revealing in advance whether the coating will be even and how effectively it will protect the material from scratches and damage. Apple already uses similar technology in the production of some iPhone models.

The company has not specified what interests it most — MatSight itself, the technology behind it, or the development team. The product's dedicated website is already offline, although information about it still remains on PlasmaSolve's homepage for now. Among the service's first clients were the companies Kolzer and Von Ardenne, as well as the Danish Technological Institute.

For Obrusník, the deal with Apple is a vivid example of how highly specialized work by Czech engineers and scientists can catch the attention of one of the world's largest technology corporations.