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its engineering and manufacturing ca- Ocean Sonics manufactures the icLis- pabilities. Recent proofs of Novacavi ten Smart Hydrophone, an innovative long term commitment and expertise in passive acoustic monitoring system. designing and providing custom cables Ocean Sonics combines smart electron- to withstand the harsh environments of ics with very high signal performance defence, offshore energy and science/ to give customers reliable and easy to academia sectors are: 4GAX107 tough use hydrophone systems. This enables and size contained custom hybrid cable users to collect, record, measure and in support of the Danish Defense sub- process sounds. Committed to the re- sea demining program. Tasked by the sponsible collection of sound data from

Danish Defense Acquisition and Logis- our oceans, Ocean Sonics has created tics Organization, Novacavi technical hydrophone systems that are non-dis- project team developed a high technol- ruptive to sensitive ocean ecosystems.

Novacavi ogy underwater hybrid cable that allows As a certi? ed B Corp company, Ocean

Peschiera Borromeo MI, Italy

ROVs to enhance and extend operation- Sonics meets rigorous social and en- www.novacavi.it al capabilities in Baltic Sea water. vironmental performance standards,

CEO/President: Gianluca Ramploud rooted in accountability and transparen-

An Italian privately owned company cy. Creating digital hydrophone arrays established in 1975, Novacavi supports is now simple. Connect two or more demanding subsea sector encompassing icListen Smart Hydrophones together defence, offshore energy and science and they self-synchronize, operating as with its involvement in developing and one. Whether using internal hydrophone manufacturing ? t for purpose extra per- memory, or logging multi-channel data formance cables skilfully applying ma- externally, users record multichannel terials expertise, engineering versatility

Ocean Sonics array data. The Ocean Sonics approach and production ? exibility into creative

Great Village, NS, Canada offers a range of geometries, including and reliable cable solutions.

www.oceansonics.com vertical, horizontal, very small geomet-

As applications have evolved, so have

CEO/President: Mark Wood rical arrays or spread out over many km.

Massa Products Corp.

Hingham, MA / www.massa.com

CEO/President: Donald P. Massa

Annual Sales: $15 million

Massa, founded in 1945 by Frank Massa, is a third gen- eration family business. Massa’s business is electroacoustics; sonar and ultrasonics. The company holds over 165 patents, including many of the fundamental patents in acoustics. Mas- sa designs and manufactures sonar and ultrasonic products for use in ocean, air and ? uids. Massa is the eyes and ears for naval ships and submarines that protect the U.S. coastline with its undersea technologies. Founded by the man who pio- neered the ? eld of electroacoustics more than 70 years ago,

Don Massa & Dawn Massa Stancavish the company maintains family ownership and leadership.

Massa has roughly half its business in military sonars, so. Massa won the Northeastern University Family Business and half in industrial products and sensors. It continues to of the Year Award in June, and has recently been awarded pioneer the electroacoustic ? eld with new product develop- several new contracts in both sectors of the business.

ments. Many companies and customers have found the Mas- Massa has been awarded many contracts for the U.S. Navy saSonic brand and products to be the best solution, especially including recently a $8.46m, federal contract from U.S. Na- when there are no apparent “off the shelf” options available. val Sea Systems Command for the design, fabrication, assem-

Massa’s team works well with other companies for custom bly, testing, inspection, packaging and delivery of TR-302D, products that will ? t their needs when it makes sense to do TR-355 and TR-355A transducers.

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