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EuroWire – July 2012 10
News
Corporate
Fibercore Ltd, a leading UK-based
company in the design and
manufacture of speciality optical fibres
is celebrating 30 years of innovation
and excellence within the highly
specialised sector.
The company continues to embody the
spirit of innovation; technical excellence
and quality which has seen it flourish
through three decades of monumental
changes in both technology and its
effects on society as a whole.
Established in 1982, Fibercore was
formed as a business venture spin-out
from the Optical Fibre Group of the
University of Southampton, to offer the
speciality optical fibres, developed at
the university, commercially.
Managing director Dr Chris Emslie
said: “The company was born from a
foundation of professional research,
excellence and expertise, so three
decades on we are proud that Fibercore
is still a byword for quality, innovation
and unrivalled technical support.”
Its divestiture from the Cisco group in
February 2011 means Fibercore starts
its third decade as an independent
company.
This new-found freedom is enabling
the company to drive forward the
boundaries of the technologies that
truly benefit its customers in key areas
such as aerospace, metrology, telecoms
components, sensors, defence and
fundamental research.
Fibrecore products are used in
an incredibly broad range of
applications spread throughout
more than 50 countries including
fibre optic gyroscopes (FOGs), fibre
optic hydrophones, fibre lasers, fibre
amplifiers (EDFAs), embedded sensors,
specialist medical, government and
corporate research agencies and
telecommunications components.
With the move to the company’s
purpose-designed R&D and
manufacturing facility, Fibercore
House, in 2003, it was able to increase
its manufacturing capabilities ten-fold
and enabled the company to introduce
‘world-class manufacturing’ philosophies
to what was traditionally viewed as a
scaled-up laboratory process.
The total shipments of fibre from
Fibercore House now average more
than 1,300,000m per month – a figure
believed to be higher than that of any
other ‘speciality’ fibre manufacturer
anywhere in the world and providing
Fibercore with unmatched experience
in the volume manufacture of
highly-specified ‘speciality’ fibre.
Fibercore Ltd – UK
Website:
Speciality fibre firm
reflects on three
decades of success
▲ ▲ The Fibercore team