Flann are exhibiting at European Microwave Week, 29th September – 4th October 2019 at Porte De Versailles Paris, France on stand A2240. Come along and meet Sam and Ian to find out more about our journey.
Flann are honoured to be listed as one of the 50 most exciting companies in the South West by SW Business Insider. We have been listed amongst companies that are innovating in their fields or have the greatest potential to bring about long term change. https://www.insidermedia.com/uploads/guides/sw_most_exciting_companies_2019.pdf
Flann are delighted to be exhibiting at the UK Space Conference 2019, 24 – 25 September 2019 ICC Wales, stand C7. There will be a Networking Drinks Reception at 6pm Tuesday 24th September at our stand C7, please feel free to join Sam and Jim to learn more about Flann’s Spaceflight journey.
Flann were delighted to be part of Insider’s South West Aerospace and Defence Innovation round table, which brought together some of the standout businesses within the region’s thriving aerospace and defence sector and supply chain to discuss the challenges and opportunities ahead for the industry. Click here to read the article at InsiderMedia.com
Congratulations to Ben, awarded ‘Overall Winner’ and ‘Third Year Student Award Winner’ in the Higher Education Engineering Awards 2019 for his achievements in mechanical engineering and mechanical design for manufacture. Ben has now completed his foundation degree in mechanical design for manufacture, supported by Flann after performing superbly through his apprenticeship here. We are very…
Flann Microwave is delighted to have been shortlisted for the Cornwall Business Awards as Exporter of the Year. New to the awards this year was the opportunity for all shortlisted businesses to take part in a showdown day where each was given 10 minutes to present to a panel of judges and answer questions…
Flann are honoured to be highly commended for our Excellence in Innovation in International Trade by South West Global Growth Awards, and be grouped with so many distinguished exporters. We at Flann strive to be Innovative in all we do, and appreciate external recognition of this thank you to South West Global Growth Awards sponsors…
We invite you to explore a selection of capability developments here at Flann captured in our new 2019 brochure, please feel free to download and explore our key capabilities. Click here CAPABILITY BROCHURE (7MB)
Flann are pleased to announce that once again we will be exhibiting at IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, the World’s largest RF and Microwave event. This year’s event will be at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Centre (415 Summer Street Boston, MA 02210) and Flann will be on booth 1325. The IMS2019 Exhibition consists of…
World leading microwave engineering company Flann Microwave has announced the appointment of Ian Crane as its new Chief Operating Officer.
World leading microwave engineering company Flann Microwave is launching the latest phase in a major investment programme which is growing its workforce and enhancing its precision manufacturing capabilities. The company has in the last year celebrated a series of milestone projects for customers including NASA and the Met Office as it continues to grow its…
A partnership of three Cornish companies has secured funding of £148,000 to develop state-of-the-art technology to enable faster and more accurate communication with satellites. Flann Microwave, Teddington Systems and Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd will be working together to create miniaturised components for the next generation of tiny communications satellites, known as nanosatellites and CubeSats. Bristol-based…
World leading microwave engineering company Flann Microwave is supplying vital components to the US space agency NASA for a major spaceflight mission making the first-ever global survey of Earth’s surface water. The multinational Surface Water and Ocean Topology (SWOT) satellite, planned to launch in 2021, is being jointly developed and managed by NASA, the French…
The team representing Flann at this year’s IMS in Philadelphia.
A potentially lifesaving piece of emergency equipment to help people suffering cardiac arrest is now available to the community in a Cornish town after it was purchased and installed by engineering company Flann Microwave. The automated external defibrillator (AED) can deliver a high energy electric shock to help restart the heart of someone in cardiac…
Engineering company Flann Microwave has been sharing its expertise with a pair of international students keen to get an insight into the work of the global market-leading business. Bodmin-based Flann opened its doors to the two machining students from Lycée Réaumur vocational high school, in Poitiers, France, giving them hands-on experience working with Flann’s precision…
Ollie Ubly and Ben Berger attended the Apprenticeship Recruitment event hosted by Cornwall College Group. Following on from the success of previous apprenticeship schemes run between Flann Microwave and Cornwall College we have identified the need to promote and encourage students to consider Engineering Apprenticeships for the future of our continued success. Ollie is a…
Flann Microwave Ltd visited Mach 2018 to review new manufacturing technologies that could be implemented to increase capability and drive innovation through the company. Citizen LEV BNA42 lathe. Sliding head with live tooling. The unique feature of this range is the LFV (low freq vibration) technology that lets you define the chip formation which in…
Flann Microwave welcomed Franco Mucchietto, Marco Pennacchi and Alberto Perinati one of our distributors for Italy. Pictured above are Angela Harvey from Flann Microwave, Franco Mucchietto from DSPM, Steve Mobbs from Flann Microwave, Marco Pennacchi and Alberto Perinati from DSPM.
Flann and University of Exeter research project aims to pave way for 5G communications revolution Microwave engineering company Flann Microwave is teaming up with the University of Exeter as part of ground-breaking research which could help pave the way for the next generation of 5G mobile communications. Flann is working with PhD researcher Julia De…
With a warm welcome from Cornwall Space UK, Flann nygoodhealth.com Microwave Limited participated at the Washington Satellite Show on booth 2337 at the Walter E Convention Centre with Aerospace Cornwall and Goonhilly Earth Station. Pictured above is the Flann Microwave Limited team, Steve Mobbs International Sales Manager, Angela Harvey Head of Finance and Operations, Kevin…
Flann Microwave is working with the Met Office to provide a key component for the UK weather radar network and to help upgrade and future proof the system – including monitoring the current the current snowfalls affecting the UK. The network is a vital element in the Met Office’s weather forecasting and monitoring activities, with…
We extend a warm welcome to our partners Syratron Technologies and thank them for their representation of Flann Microwave Limited at the IRSI (International Radar Symposium India) National Science Fair. IRIS National Science Fair is an outstanding example of public-private partnership initiated by Intel Technology India Private Ltd (Intel) with the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government…
Growing orders lead Flann to boost Bodmin workforce A growing order book and plans for future development of the business means leading microwave engineering company Flann Microwave is to increase its workforce in Bodmin by 10 per cent. With a current team of 60 based in Bodmin, Cornwall, Flann has grown over six decades to…
We extend a warm welcome to our new partners Takitek and thank them for their representation of Flann Microwave and our products at the Microwave Workshop Exhibition (MWE). MWE is the largest comprehensive event in Japan for RF/microwave engineers and researchers in academic and governmental institutions as well as private companies and has provided workshops…
Steve Mobbs, International Sales Manager and Sam Brokenshire, Technical Sales Engineer pictured here with Ewald Kalteiss and Mark Dorowski from our partners Pro Nova Elektronik, exhibiting at EuMW 2017 in Nuremberg. We received a great deal of interest shown in our Series 562 Seamless Semi-Rigid Waveguide Flange to Flange Adapter and our Series 350 Coaxial…
Flann’s engineers are celebrating the publication of a new three-part international standard that will define how waveguide is used for decades to come. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) standard IEEE 1785 sets requirements for waveguides from 75 GHz to 3.3 THz – previously there was no internationally agreed standard for waveguides operating above 330…
Flann played a starring role in a BBC TV news broadcast last month as part of a week-long series of features on successful business based in the South West of England. Aptly titled ‘Under the Radar’, the series for BBC South West’s Spotlight evening news programme showcased five companies who have built successful long-term track…
Flann Microwave is celebrating 60 years of success which has seen the company become the market leader in the design and manufacture of precision microwave communications equipment. It has been a remarkable journey for the business founded in Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, UK, in 1956 by engineer Bernard Fleming, who took his experience in radar…
There are really good reasons for considering commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) products rather than custom designs in many technology and application areas. Indeed considering COTS is mandatory for many organisations and even enshrined in law for US government procurement.¹ The main reasons for using COTS components are rapid availability, low cost and low risk. Clearly in…
European Microwave Week is back in the UK for 2016 at ExCel, London between 3-7 October. Flann Microwave will be exhibiting a selection of our world leading waveguide components on booth 183. Please drop by and meet our sales and marketing team or, if you would like to arrange a private meeting please use the…
A new book, “Electronics for Microwave Backhaul”, has just been published by Artech House and co-authored by Flann’s CEO Dr James Watts. This timely new resource presents an overview of the electronics of mobile network backhaul. Infrastructure planning, architecture evolution, digital controls, and countermeasures are all presented highlighting the building blocks of specific backhaul features.…
We’re in the middle of a busy exhibition here in San Francisco. It has been great to meet so many of our customers – if you’re at the show, please come and see us at Booth 2532!
For 2016 the International Microwave Symposium IMS2016 is being held in San Francisco at The Moscone Center at 747 Howard St., San Francisco, CA 94103. Flann Microwave will be exhibiting a selection of our world leading waveguide components on booth 2532. Please drop by and meet our sales and marketing team or, if you would like to arrange a…
Flann’s engineers have just completed final testing of the first 330 GHz cavity frequency phenadip.com meter. This Power-over-Ethernet controlled device is able to repeatably tune a ‘notch’ frequency response to any frequency within the waveguide band of 217 – 330 GHz, and this allows the frequency accuracy of measurement systems to be confirmed. Frequency measurement…
Flann’s Chairman, Mrs Colleen Fleming, recently spent time in Taipei with our Taiwanese distributor, Step Electronics. She met with Spark Wang and Sean Kao and wishes to thank them and the rest of the Step staff for their warm welcome and kind hospitality. They discussed the current business situation in Taiwan and joint plans to grow Flann’s…
Flann’s CEO, Dr James Watts, will be presenting an invited talk on antennas for 4G and 5G backhaul at the international Exeter Microwave Metamaterials Meeting (XM3), 7-8 December 2015. As the demand for mobile communications grows, the need for high capacity backhaul links is escalating and this will mean that very sophisticated antenna systems will be…
Flann Microwave Ltd seeks new representatives in China Flann Microwave is looking to appoint new partners to represent its world leading portfolio of passive waveguide components in China. Interested parties are invited to make a submission of interest to Flann via email at sales@flann.com. Please include a company overview, details of your existing partners and a…
Flann’s CEO, Dr James Watts, recently participated in a Carey Federation Science Day at Ashwater Primary School. As part of the day’s activities Dr Watts, a Physicist, ran a learning station on thermal modafprovig.com imaging which the children greatly enjoyed. Flann Microwave actively participates in local community programmes in order to foster greater understanding of…
Today Flann Microwave Ltd, the industry leader in passive waveguide components, launched its new website…
Flanns RF and Microwave design team have published two new antenna design aid charts for download.
Building on the success of the RS485 version of the Series 624, Flann now offers a Power over Ethernet version. As well as the advantages that come with the ability to send commands over an Ethernet connection…