EoW July 2012

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Speciality fibre firm reflects on three decades of success

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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. throughout more than 50 countries including fibre optic gyroscopes (FOGs), fibre optic hydrophones, fibre lasers, fibre amplifiers (EDFAs), embedded sensors, specialist medical, government and Fibrecore products are used in of an incredibly broad range applications spread

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

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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 : www.fibercore.com

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EuroWire – July 2012