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ValeportValeport

St Peter’s Quay, Totnes, Devon, St Peter’s Quay, Totnes, Devon,

UK TQ9 5EW UK TQ9 5EW

T: +44 1803 869292 T: +44 1803 869292

E: [email protected] E: [email protected]

W: www.valeport.co.uk W: www.valeport.co.uk

CEO/President: Matt Quartley CEO/President: Matt Quartley

No. of Employees: 81 No. of Employees: 81

Annual Sales: $12.5mAnnual Sales: $12.5m aleport is a U.K. manufacturer of underwater tion, calibration and testing of all its products. measuring equipment that reinvests in R&D In 2005, Charles stood aside as Managing Director to develop new products for Hydrographic & to be replaced by his son Matthew, who has been with

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Oceanographic markets. Valeport since graduating in 1994. A new investment of

Valeport was established in 1969, in the small port $3.6m in a 3.5 story facility was added in 2013 to more town of Dartmouth in the South West of England, with a than double the workspace to 28,000 sq. ft. and houses simple product range based around the Braystoke Impel- the entire production facility with a fully equipped CNC ler Flow Meter. Sold to Oceanics plc in 1982, a strategy workshop, state of the art calibration laboratory and two change saw Valeport put up for sale in 1985, and it was ? oors of ESD protected assembly workshop. The busi- acquired in a management buy out by Charles Quartley, ness now employs around 81 staff, and continues to invest

Technical Director of Oceonics. Since then, Valeport heavily both in new product development, and also in all has expanded its product range, and developed a strong the facilities necessary to manufacture and supply the reputation within the industry for high quality, reliable quality products for which Valeport is known. instrumentation. In 2003, the company outgrew the fac- Products include: Sound Velocity Probes / Sensors, Al- tory in which it had been based since 1969, and acquired timeters, Bathypacks, Depth and Pressure sensors, Radar a site a few miles up the river Dart in the historic town of Level Sensor, Current Meters, Tide Gauges, Wave Re-

Totnes. The new site met all requirements, and contains corders, CTD’s, Multi-Parameter CTD’s, new Fluorom- all the facilities necessary for the development, produc- eter and optical sensor range, plus a GPS Echo Sounder.

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