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We specialise in designing and delivering bespoke test solutions catered to your specific requirements.
We design, manufacture, supply, service, repair and integrate electronic test equipment and diagnostic solutions, together with related software systems and product development for the entire life cycle of critical applications for the Military, Aerospace, Space and other civil markets.
Our offering of a full suite of products and services, which span the entire product lifecycle from concept, design and production into the aftermarket, conversion and disposal, together with our strategy of innovation, global reach and efficient allocation of resources is what makes us stand out.
We actively pursue long-term relationships over short-term profit, which is borne out of our readiness to invest in bespoke products and services, new premises and new equipment in support of your programmes. Working alongside you, we look for efficiency in processes and effectiveness across the whole project to deliver far above your expectations.
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Female and diverse workforce
We believe diversity is a fertilizer of creativity, leading us to recruit people from different horizons, background, gender and ethnicity. We employ passionate individuals who genuinely care about our customers and who thrive to resolve challenges. This diversity is further represented within the leadership team to encourage better day-to-day decision-making.
Our people and their experience, enthusiasm and passion for engineering and resolving our client’s challenges are our biggest assets. We actively encourage them to continuously develop their practical and academic skills as we acknowledge this leads to greater personal fulfilment and resultant customer satisfaction.
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Racal Instruments formed
Racal acquires Dana Laboratories and forms Racal Dana Instruments.
Racal Automation is formed to focus on Automated Test Equipment.
Racal Automation Wareham facility opens as dedicated test programming facility.
Racal Automation and Racal Dana merge to form Racal Instruments
Racal Electronics taken over by Thomson CSF. Racal Instruments became Thales Instruments.
Thales Instruments bought by Lehman's and revert back to Racal Instruments Group.
EADS Group invest in the UK by buying Racal Instrument Group.
The ATE/Instrument part in UK is driven by EADS Test & Services (now SPHEREA).
All EADS Test and Services and EADS Test Engineering Services consolidated into a single site at Ferndown.
EADS Test and Services rebranded to become Cassidian Test and Services Limited.
10th July
SPHEREA Group is founded.
Spherea UK moves to its new engineering centre of excellence at Aviation Business Park.
Spherea UK doubles in size and welcomes a new shareholding structure as part of Spherea Group
Spherea UK continues to grow despite COVID-19 and becomes carbon neutral.
Major work has been completed to increase shop floor footprint to work on more and bigger test equipment.
Diversification of our offer to include hydromechanical test systems.
We are proud to have been awarded a Gold Award by EcoVadis for our Sustainability Rating, placing us in the top 5% of the 80,0000 companies EcoVadis has assessed so far.
It means a lot to us as it acknowledges that we can be a successful and growing company whilst being sustainable. Business success should not be achieved to the detriment of the environment and we are proud to have been able to demonstrate this!
To celebrate our completion of the assessment, EcoVadis will be planting a tree on our behalf through their partnership with One Tree Planted.
Our parent company, Spherea group has a worldwide reach with offices in countries across Europe, North America and Asia. It offers testing solutions to increase the availability and operability of critical systems across aeronautics, defence, transport and energy.
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We are a climate positive workplace, believing that putting our environment at the forefront is crucial to reverse climate change. We have partnered with Ecologi to make it easy to take action.
This year we have offset around 45 tonnes of CO2 and are now considered a carbon neutral business. 45 tonnes of CO2 are roughly the same as 35 long haul flights or 111,645 miles driven in a car.
How have we achieved this? We are supporting climate projects around the world with Ecologi such as a wind power project in South Africa or a solar power project in Vietnam.
Together we are stronger, that’s why we believe in collective action. You can be part of this. Follow this link and join the fight to reverse climate change.
NI’s European supply network has recognised us as the most capable outsource integrator for the management of large, complex projects. Within their tiered partner network, we are just one of three partners to hold Diamond status and are the only one selected for aerospace and defence. This brings us access to a higher level of support which includes advice, favourable purchasing terms and improved delivery timescales.
More than 150 active customers make use of our specialist expertise in this technology, demonstrating our commitment to providing reliable, COTS-based systems, which are created with long-term support and obsolescence issues in mind.
Improving our offer and developing new technologies has been key to our success over the last 50 years. Our R&D programme, developed through a substantial annual group investment of 8% of profit, is at the heart of what we do. It has allowed us to build a strong library of technological building blocks across software, electronics and systems.
From our first fully analogue ATEs using early transistors & Fortran programming, the use of the first PC, the introduction of IEEE, floppy disks, Ethernet, VXI, PCI, PXI, PXIe to the current ultra high speed ATE, building on Hardware in the Loop & System integration benches, we have seen it all and are excited to continue to be at the forefront of innovation and development.
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