Our Technology Centres offer custom solutions for advanced projects

Technology Network

Connecting technologies, driving innovation

When your design demands expertise, reliability, and support across multiple technologies, our Technology Network brings it all together.

Seven specialised centres. One connected ecosystem. Endless possibilities for your next project.

Supporting you whether you need advice, a standard component or service, expert integration support, or a fully engineered custom solution.

What is the Technology Network?

Bringing together seven specialised centres across Europe, that work independently or in unison to support projects from concept through to production.

Each centre is dedicated to a specific discipline, and dedicated to solving design challenges in their respective technology fields – but their real strength comes from working together. This collaboration enables us to create solutions tailored to your exact requirements, no matter how wide-ranging or technically demanding your project may be.

Complex projects often involve challenges that cross traditional technology boundaries, requiring expertise from multiple specialised fields. By working together, our engineers can integrate components and systems from different technology areas seamlessly, creating customised, optimised solutions that precisely meet your project’s technical and performance goals. Ensure that potential compatibility issues, design constraints, or integration challenges are identified and resolved early, reducing development risk and accelerating time to market.

Whether your project involves combining embedded computing with fibre optics, integrating wireless connectivity with power supply solutions, or merging infrared imaging with magnetic components, our Technology Network will deliver end-to-end expertise tailored to your exact needs.

How does the Technology Network work?

Our Technology Network is flexible and responsive to your project needs:

  • Separately or together: Centres can operate independently or collaborate, depending on the scope and complexity of your project.

  • Multi-technology expertise all in-house: Each of our centres is staffed with highly experienced engineers dedicated to their specific technology area. Unlike providers who rely on outsourced expertise, our specialists work directly with you, enabling faster decision-making, deeper technical insight, and seamless multi-technology integration without delays.

  • Engineering support: Each Technology Centre provides a full suite of engineering support services designed to keep your project progressing smoothly. From component evaluation and design reviews to troubleshooting, system optimisation, and hands-on integration advice, you’ll get direct access to the tools, knowledge, and resources needed to solve challenges quickly and move confidently through each stage of development.

  • Support at every stage: Whether you are at the design, prototyping, testing, or production phase, we offer reliable and practical support. Our mission is simple: help you meet deadlines and bring products to market efficiently, without compromising quality or performance.

  • Staying on schedule: Our expert teams help you meet deadlines and accelerate time-to-market with efficient, focused assistance.

What the network offers

Our service offerings are designed to match how engineers work — clear, practical pathways from idea to finished product.

Standard services across all centres

Each centre provides a comprehensive range of services tailored to its specific technologies, covering every stage of your project. This includes expert component selection and integration advice, design services and prototyping, testing and pre-compliance certification, production and manufacturing support, and full lifecycle management with upgrades and future-proofing in mind. Aftersales support and obsolescence management ensure your solution continues to perform reliably long after deployment, supporting every technical and production milestone.

Component selection and design services

Expert guidance on selecting and designing the right components for your application, balancing performance, availability, cost, and long-term reliability.

  • Expert component selection based on performance, availability, cost, and lifecycle

  • Design support for complex or custom applications

  • Supporting complex, custom, and high-risk designs with specialist engineering expertise

Speak to our engineers to optimise your design from the start.

Prototyping and testing

Rapid prototyping and rigorous testing to validate designs early, reduce risk, and accelerate time-to-market.

  • Rapid prototyping to prove concepts and functionality

  • Electrical, environmental, and application-specific testing

  • Design refinement based on real-world test results

Contact us to move confidently from concept to prototype.

Pre-compliance and certification​

Support with pre-compliance testing and certification requirements to help ensure products meet regulatory standards first time.

-Pre-compliance testing to identify issues early

-Guidance on relevant regional and international standards

-Support through certification and approval processes

Talk to us about simplifying your compliance journey.

Production and manufacturing​

Scalable production and manufacturing support, ensuring consistent quality, efficient assembly, and smooth transition from prototype to volume.

-Low- to high-volume manufacturing support

-Quality assurance and process optimisation

-Reliable production planning aligned to demand

Get in touch to discuss scaling your product efficiently.

Product lifecycle management​

End-to-end lifecycle support, from concept and introduction through to end-of-life planning.

  • Lifecycle planning aligned to market and technology changes

  • Continuous improvement and cost optimisation

  • End-of-life and transition planning

Let’s plan your product’s long-term success together.

Aftersales support​

Ongoing technical and commercial support to keep products performing optimally throughout their operational life.

  • Technical support and troubleshooting

  • Repair, replacement, and service coordination

  • Long-term product and application expertise

Contact our team for dependable, long-term support.

Upgrading and future-proofing​

Design and technology updates to extend product life, improve performance, and adapt to evolving standards and market needs.

  • Technology refresh and performance enhancements

  • Design updates to meet evolving regulations

  • Support for platform and component migrations

Speak to us about future-proofing your next design.

Obsolescence management​

We can help with monitoring and mitigation of component obsolescence to minimise disruption and protect long-term product availability.

  • Proactive obsolescence monitoring and alerts

  • Alternative component and redesign strategies

  • Last-time buy and lifecycle planning support

Talk to us about protecting your designs from obsolescence.

Supply chain management​

Robust supply chain solutions to improve availability, manage risk, and ensure continuity across markets.

  • Secure sourcing from trusted global suppliers

  • Inventory, lead-time, and risk management

  • Supply chain optimisation and forecasting support

Get in touch to strengthen your supply chain strategy.

Custom solutions

Beyond the standard offerings, each centre provides more advanced solutions tailored to your specific design requirements. This can include advanced testing and technology-specific services designed to optimise your product performance. For detailed capabilities, visit the individual centre pages.

Standard components

For engineers who know what they need – fast:

  • Access to a broad portfolio of trusted, high-performance components
  • Advice from engineers who understand real-world design constraints
  • Fast supply, European reach, and technical validation

Ideal for: Evaluating options, replacing parts, or keeping your project on track.

Integration support – for more complex designs

When your design needs more than just components – it needs to fit, connect, and perform optimally:

  • Component selection and compatibility advice
  • System-level design considerations
  • Troubleshooting and optimisation
  • Support through design, prototyping, and testing

Ideal for: Adding new functionality, improving system performance, or reducing development time.

Semi-custom solutions

When standard parts don’t fully meet your needs:

  • Mechanical or electrical modifications
  • Firmware adjustments
  • Interface and environmental adaptations

Ideal for: Enhancing performance, meeting unusual requirements, or avoiding a full custom redesign.

Fully custom engineering solutions

For projects with unique, high-complexity demands:

  • Requirements definition
  • Custom design and prototyping
  • Advanced testing and certification
  • Manufacturing and lifecycle support

Ideal for: Challenging specifications, specialised applications, or complete engineering collaboration across disciplines.

When resource or capacity is limited, you can depend upon our knowledge and dedicated Technology Centres to support you from concept through to production

Our Technology Centres

BioPhotonics

With more than 15 years of experience in sales, installation, and service of BioPhotonics systems, we can offer products and solutions tailored to your specific requirements.

The wide range of BioPhotonics cameras, lasers, LED light sources, spectrometers, optical components, microscope systems, microscope accessories, and associated software enables us to assemble almost any photonics or imaging solution.

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Embedded Computing

The Embedded Computing Technology Centre drives advanced solutions, so you can deliver the technologies of tomorrow – today.

Design customer driven systems, build prototypes and manufacture products to meet your distinct needs. Many of the platform-based technologies that we offer were designed with customisation in mind.

Our capabilities help us to offer solutions across all stages of your project. Whether your requirements are standard, modified or highly customised, our experts support and identify your aims and work to ensure that we provide a solution that fits.

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Fibre Optics

The Fibre Optics Technology Centre allows our engineers to develop fibre optic solutions to meet changing demands in a high-speed world.

With over 25 years of experience in fibre optics and application engineering for hardware and components, we help to analyse and qualify to improve the stability and functionality of your transceivers. Supporting our engineers with expertise and state of the art technology, the Fibre Optics Technology Centre houses a number of our specialist capabilities.

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Infrared Imaging

Our specialist infrared team are available to support your development process from design to build by ensuring you have everything you need, when you need it.

The approach to any infrared imaging project begins by listening intently to ensure that we fully understand your specific requirements. It’s only then that we can advise you on the best suited infrared technology – from cores and lenses to detectors, blackbodies, and processing boards – and help you plan the design, manufacture, and test process.

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Interconnect and Cable Assembly

The capabilities and expertise housed within the Interconnect and Cable Assembly Technology Centre ensure that our team can support you every step of the way.

Providing and customising bespoke specialist fibre and cables including hybrids with custom connectors, the Technology Centre is on hand to support with design, assembly, testing and approvals for your customised solutions.

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IoT and wireless

The IoT and Wireless Technology Centre has the ability to support complex discrete component design-in from a bespoke System on Chip (SoC), right through to fully integrated modules that are certified and application ready.

Creating custom solutions that add connectivity to an application requires specialist expertise and capabilities. Our team of wireless technology hardware design and software application engineers cover RF, wireless, cellular and many more state-of-the-art technologies. Together they have extensive individual and collective experience of developing customised solutions, ensuring we can bring your concept to life.

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Magnetic Products

The Magnetic Products Technology Centre is at the forefront of our solution led approach for applications that require customised cores and components, driving our commitment to developing an enhanced technological future together.

Over the last 25 years, we have grown our expertise in the design-led customisation of magnetic components. With the largest team of technical support specialists, the Magnetic Products Technology Centre is at the forefront of magnetic based technological advancements. Our team design and manufacture magnetic components including transformers, inductors, and even cores to meet the technical and commercial aspects of your project, whether you are in design or production.

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Power Supply

The extensive breadth of experience held by our in-house design industrial power engineers ensures that we have the expertise to develop customised industrial power supply solutions, ranging from 1W to 25kW for a wide range of applications.

Whether you’re looking to modify or configure a standard power product, integrate it into a custom design, design and modify a rack, chassis, PCB, or require a full custom-designed power solution, our Power Supply Technology Centre can support you with the design, assembly, testing and integration of a tailored industrial power solution to meet your specific application’s requirements.

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Why engineers trust our Technology Network

  • Deep expertise across multiple technologies
  • A collaborative approach to solving complex challenges
  • Advice grounded in engineering reality, not just product specs
  • Support throughout the entire product lifecycle
  • European reach with strong local and technical presence

Why choose the Acal BFi Technology Network?

You’ll gain more than a service provider — you gain a partner. Our end-to-end support, European reach, and multidisciplinary collaboration create a powerful advantage for your designs.

By working with us, you’ll access a network built to accelerate innovation, overcome complexity, and deliver high-quality solutions faster than ever before.

Ready to move your project forward? Explore each Technology Centre to learn more about our capabilities — or speak directly with our specialists for tailored guidance.