<SEC-DOCUMENT>0001127602-20-001179.txt : 20200106
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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001127602-20-001179
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	4
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20200102
FILED AS OF DATE:		20200106
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20200106

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Secor Thomas N
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001552961

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		4
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-35083
		FILM NUMBER:		20510762

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		GSI GROUP INC.
		STREET 2:		125 MIDDLESEX TURNPIKE
		CITY:			BEDFORD
		STATE:			MA
		ZIP:			01730

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			NOVANTA INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001076930
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	MISCELLANEOUS ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES [3690]
		IRS NUMBER:				980110412
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			A3
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		125 MIDDLESEX TURNPIKE
		STREET 2:		.
		CITY:			BEDFORD
		STATE:			MA
		ZIP:			01730
		BUSINESS PHONE:		781-266-5618

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		125 MIDDLESEX TURNPIKE
		STREET 2:		.
		CITY:			BEDFORD
		STATE:			MA
		ZIP:			01730

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	GSI GROUP INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20050622

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	GSI LUMONICS INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19990401

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	GSI LUMONICS
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19990331
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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Each Restricted Stock Unit (&quot;RSU&quot;) was the economic equivalent of one Novanta Inc. common share. On January 2, 2020, the RSUs were settled in Novanta Inc. common shares.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Each Restricted Stock Unit represents the right to receive one Novanta Inc. common share on the first anniversary of the Grant Date (or, if such date is not a business day, on the first business day immediately following the first anniversary of the Grant Date).</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">The Restricted Stock Units were fully vested and non-forfeitable on the Grant Date.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">As of the date the reporting person ceases to be a director of the issuer, each Deferred Stock Unit will convert into a share of issuer common stock. The Deferred Stock Units were fully vested and non-forfeitable on the Grant Date.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <remarks>Exhibit 24--Power of Attorney</remarks>

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        <signatureName>/s/ Timothy Spinella, Attorney-in-Fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2020-01-06</signatureDate>
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<TEXT>
                                                  EXHIBIT 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

With respect to holdings of and transactions in securities issued
by Novanta Inc. (the ?Company?), the undersigned hereby constitutes
and appoints the individuals named on Schedule A attached hereto
and as may be amended from time to time, or any of them signing
singly, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to
act as the undersigned?s true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

1.      prepare, execute in the undersigned?s name and on the
undersigned?s behalf, and submit to the United States Securities
and Exchange Commission (the ?SEC?) a Form ID, including amendments
thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain
and/or regenerate codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to
make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by
Section 16(a) of the Securities	Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
or any rule or regulation of the SEC;

2.	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, Forms 3, 4,
and 5 in accordance with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended, and the rules thereunder;

3. 	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the
undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and
execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and execute any
amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with
the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

4. 	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection
with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact,
may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required
by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents
executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned
pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may
approve in such attorney-in-fact?s discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full
power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing
whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the
exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully
to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do
if personally present, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorneys-in-fact substitute
or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.

The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact,
in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are
not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned?s
responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until
the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5
with respect to the undersigned?s holdings of and transactions in
securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the
undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing
attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of
Attorney to be executed as of this 9th day of May,2019.


	/s/ Thomas N. Secor
	Signature

	Thomas N. Secor





Schedule A

Individuals Appointed as Attorney-in-Fact with Full Power of
Substitution and Resubstitution

Robert Buckley

Timothy Spinella

Peter Chang

John Burke

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