Aquatec Group

General information

History
Aquatec was founded by the current managing director in 1990 as a specialist consultancy in oceanographic instrumentation design. Since then, the company has established a diverse portfolio of products for measurement of physical oceanographic and process parameters including temperature, depth, vibration, attitude, suspended sediment, and marine mammal activity, as well as underwater data communication systems and marine mammal deterrents.

Expertise
Aquatec Group employs highly qualified engineering personnel with extensive expertise in oceanographic and offshore applications. In-house expertise includes

- Oceanographic instrumentation
- Low power data loggers
- Digital signal processing
- Temperature and pressure measurement
- Underwater optical instrumentation
- Suspended sediment acoustic characteristics
- High frequency acoustics
- Underwater sound propagation
- Underwater acoustic communication
- Marine mammal acoustics
- Cathodic protection

Facilities
Aquatec uses sophisticated computer-based design and leading-edge software development tools throughout all phases of the design process, thus ensuring a rapid and flexible response to customer demands.
A fully equipped electronics laboratory provides all the necessary facilities for instrument development, assembly, calibration and test, while strict sub-vendor quality control ensures a consistent high quality for production component manufacture.

Support
Our fully trained team provides technical support for installation, commissioning, training, and trials in the laboratory, construction yard, on the dockside, at sea or offshore. With extensive experience in oceanographic, acoustic, sonar and acoustic communications, our engineering staff can assist with all your related instrumentation needs.

Research
The Aquatec Group maintains strong links with universities and research institutions around the world, and is a prominent partner in collaborative research, complementing its internal, market-led product research and development programme.

Quality
The Aquatec Group is an ISO 9001:2008 certified company, qualified for the design and manufacture of instrumentation systems.