Our technologies
A carefully selected portfolio of specialist leading technologies to support our chosen markets
Offering you a choice of thousands of standard off-the-shelf products as well as custom solutions for complex designs, across many specialist technology areas. We’ll have the solutions to fulfil your design requirements.
We’ll work with you to ensure you always source the right technology for your solution – to meet both your time and budget requirements, along with providing any technical expertise for more challenging projects. If you can’t find what you are looking for or you need advice on the options available, our team of technical experts will be able to guide you through.
When resource or capacity is limited, you can depend upon our knowledge and dedicated Technology Centres to support you from concept through to production
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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.