Scotland's Economy
MESL Microwaves – Globally Connected
January 22, 2013 by MESL Managing Director Mike Huggan 1 Comment | Category Economy, Exports, Uncategorized
Founded in 1964, MESL microwave has established a strong reputation internationally for its microwave products – we export more than 70 per cent of the components we manufacture in the UK to more than 25 territories.
In 2008 we recognised the huge opportunities available in the emerging ‘space’ market and through working with Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Development International we secured research and development funding to support our plans to diversify our product range and enter the new ‘space’ market and overseas territories.
Fast forward four years and we are seeing positive results – 95 per cent of the products we have designed for Space are for export markets.
The world class engineering skills available in Scotland has already been recognised with our company winning projects to develop components for NASA (Jet Propulsion Labs) for a satellite to measure the oceans surface height and with Mitsubishi for components for the guidance of the HTV vehicle which is the new supply vessel for the international space station that replaces the space shuttle along with Thales Alenia Space and Astrium, two of the world’s leading satellite manufacturers.
Our engineers are involved with the European Space Agency in creating the technology roadmap for microwave transmissions, this will increase the data rates from Earth to Satellites and then back to Earth again, much like the 4G telecoms revolution is doing for mobile telephone networks enabling high definition video to be sent around the world.
We are implementing a 10 year plan to diversify into the Space payload market to create the highly skilled, high added value jobs required to ensure that Scotland and the UK remain that the forefront of the world’s technology markets. This new strategic direction for MESL will ensure the success of the company for the next 48 years, whilst remain and growing from our Edinburgh base.
Today the latest Global Connections Survey was published today, showing a seven per cent increase in Scottish exports in 2011.
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Interesting. Sounds like MESL Are claiming to have discovered this opportunity. TRAK based in Dundee has been in the “new” space market for 15 years before MESL even considered entering and it’s revenues in space dwarf MESL’s . Still, better late than never!