Gooch & Housego announces formation of corporate engineering group

Date Announced: 28 Jan 2013

Ilminster, UK - 28 January 2013

Photonic systems and components manufacturer Gooch & Housego (G&H) is pleased to announce the formation of a new corporate level engineering group specifically to handle externally funded system design and development activities. The new Systems Technology Group (STG) will build on G&H's existing expertise in customizing and integrating a wide range of optical technologies. This team will work with market facing customers to help design with them the new photonic system products they need and then transfer these seamlessly into G&H's worldwide manufacturing operations for volume production. The group will initially comprise several of G&H's most senior engineers and report to our Senior VP, Andrew Robertson and our CTO, Murray Reed. G&H anticipates a wide range of wide range of opportunities, in diagnostic and therapeutic life science systems and in space, aerospace and defense applications. Consequentially the Systems Technology Group is expected to expand rapidly and be a significant vehicle for the continued growth of G&H.
“Our aim is to harness G&H's unique engineering capabilities and focus these on achieving our strategic plan of becoming a complete solutions provider by supplying systems design services in addition to components and modules” said Murray Reed, G&H's CTO.
For further information please contact Andew Robertson, arobertson@goochandhousego.com.

About Gooch & Housego

Gooch & Housego is a vertically integrated supplier of critical photonic solutions: optical components, assemblies and sub-systems, in addition to light measurement instrumentation and services to the Aerospace & Defense, Biomedical, Industrial and R&D sectors. World leading design, development and manufacturing expertise is offered across a broad, complementary range of technologies:

• Precision-Optics
• Optical Coatings
• Acousto-Optics
• RF Electronics
• Electro-Optics
• Fiber Optics
• Crystal Growth
• NIST-traceable calibration standards and services
• Optical radiation measurement solutions including spectroradiometry and spectral imaging

The organization is proud of its quality assurance and of its AS9100, ISO9001 and SC21 accreditation and is expects to be awarded BS EN9100 standard shortly.

The company was founded in 1948 and has today six manufacturing sites in the USA and two in the United Kingdom in addition to sales offices in China, France, Germany, Japan and Singapore and an extensive network of distributors.

For more information, please visit www.goochandhousego.com or e-mail us at sales@goochandhousego.com


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Contact

Andy Robertson
VP Business Development

E-mail: arobertson@goochandhousego.com

Web Site: www.goochandhousego.com