Gooch & Housego Announces Aerospace & Defense Quality Assurance Qualifications

Date Announced: 17 Apr 2013

Gooch & Housego is pleased to announce Aerospace & Defense quality assurance qualification updates. The company has been awarded AS/EN9100 certification. This means the company is now qualified to be listed on the International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG) Online Aerospace Supplier Information System (OASIS) supplier database.

To add to AS/EN9100 9100 qualification, the company has recently requalified as a SC21 Bronze award holder. Together this means that Gooch & Housego is now in a position to supply airframe and avionic manufacturers in the both the civil and defense sectors with optical components and sub-systems for both R&D and production.

Gareth Jones, Gooch & Housego CEO, commented: "The efforts G&H has gone to achieve AS9100 qualification and the re-award of SC21 Bronze certification are indicative of the commitment the company has to strengthening its support for the aerospace and defense supply sector. Maturity and expertise in supply and supply chain management in aerospace and defense manufacturing is one of the pillars of G&H's strategic growth. In this way we give confidence to our customers and our shareholders."

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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