COMPANY PROFILE

Magenta Products Limited was formed in 1985 to produce equipment for the expanding radio telemetry market.

In the early years the company rapidly established itself with its unique fusion of microprocessor techniques and radio frequency engineering.

The company has always concentrated on high-performance, high-specification projects. Particular goals for new designs have been the reduction of size and power, whilst retaining maximum performance.

Custom-designed systems have been supplied for industrial monitoring, surveying, navigation, civil engineering and other projects requiring high-integrity, cost-effective solutions.

The company also supplies OEM's with radio modules from its standard range and customised designs for special applications.

A large proportion of Magenta's output is eventually exported by its customers. Its radio systems have been used from the Antarctic to equatorial regions, from below sea-level to 50,000 feet up.

There follows a short list of just some of the work undertaken by Magenta Products in its formative years:

1986
Supply of radios for use on Mobil Oil's single leg mooring and loading buoy in the North Sea

1987
Surface-mounted components used on all new designs

1988
12 metre Yacht World Championships in Sweden. Magenta's radio telemetry equipment was used to superimpose positions of 16 racing yachts on TV pictures for an Australian TV company.

1989
First integrated laser range and bearing unit for dynamic positioning of survey vessels. Successfully trialled for Shell Oil company in Gabon, Central Africa.

1990
Development of radio-linked navigation and environmental monitoring systems.

1991
Design and introduction of MP2501 - UK's smallest, full specification radio data transceiver.

1992
UK's largest tidal data retrieval network installed in Humber Estuary.

1993
Introduction of hand-held radio data terminal with full MPT1329 and MPT 1411 compliance - the first of it's kind in the UK.

1995
Design and manufacture of a scanning radio telemetry system for environmental monitoring of water courses within a major European steelworks, providing 192 remote monitoring and control points.