Newbury Electronics has recently completed its latest consignment of PCBs for Matrix Telematics, an international provider of telematics systems for vehicle management and tracking. The two companies have been working together for over five years and this success is based on; "relationship, performance and cost," according to Matrix Managing Director, Geoff Ball.

Newbury Electronics was delighted to hear that Team Impulse, a group of students from St Paul’s School, London had won first place in the European CanSat 2015 competition. The company first became involved with this team of young engineers when they were asked to supply prototype PCBs back in the autumn of 2014. These were then incorporated into the satellite that secured them first place in the UK competition and took them onto the final i...

Cranfield Precision, part of the Fives Landis group, is just one of a string of UK based engineering teams, which also includes the Satellite Applications Catapult and the University of Southampton Nanofabrication Centre, who turn to Newbury Electronics to fulfill their PCB production and placement requirements.

Newbury Electronics has announced that is has upgraded its PCB Train Express service to a same day turn around on prototype PCBs. Previously, if the data was received by 9am, the boards would be dispatched the following working day. As a result of refining its processes, the company will now complete the entire process from receipt of data, tooling and testing so that the boards will be dispatched the same day and delivered by 12pm the following ...

Student engineers from Kingston University have turned to Newbury Electronics for both design advice and the manufacture of a series of bespoke PCBs for use in their latest Formula Student Electric car. Engineering departments from universities across the country compete every year in a race where conventional combustion engines go head-to-head with alternative fuelled vehicles.

  The designers and manufacturers of the Soundbeam that created an award-winning 'touch free' device, which uses sensor technology to translate body movement into music and sound, turned to Newbury Electronics when they need PCBs for their product.

Newbury Electronics has announced that it is helping the Satellite Applications Catapult bring the benefits of satellite technology to all businesses and organisations, regardless of their size. Newbury Electronics has recently used its specialist production skills to supply prototype circuit boards that measure 44mm2, slightly smaller than a credit card, designed by two summer interns working at the Catapult.

Dr Mark Holton and the Swansea Live Animal Monitoring (SLAM) group, led by Professor Rory Wilson at Swansea University, has designed and produced an innovative range of lightweight, robust tracking devices, with the aid of Newbury Electronics, to aid their research into previously unknown animal behaviour.

Newbury Electronics has announced the formation of Newbury Innovation, a division solely focussed on electronic design and the launch of a supporting website (newburyinnovation.co.uk). This division recognises the increasing importance of the company's expertise in electronic design and development and is an area where they envisage considerable growth.

In response to its ever expanding order book, Newbury Electronics has recently installed three Yamaha I-Pulse M20 SMD placement machines in its production facility in Newbury. This investment more than doubles the company's production capabilities and takes the total number of SMD machines to five, making the company the second largest user of this technology in the UK.

Newbury Electronics will be supplying three PCBs for installation in the data buoy that forms the hub of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP) Observatory. Two of the PCBs will be located in the large data buoy which is anchored approximately 500km off the Irish coast, whilst the third PCB will be installed in the sensor frame hanging 30m below the surface buoy.

Newbury Electronics recently welcomed local West Berkshire MP, Richard Benyon, to its premises to learn more about the company's redevelopment of its Newbury site.  Work on the initial phase started earlier in June as part of a two phase development which will ultimately provide increased production space, new offices and deliver savings in both water and electricity consumption.

The first machine of its type to be installed in the country, a UV-P300 LDI laser direct imaging system from Limata has been installed at Newbury Electronics. The machine uses the latest in laser technology to produce far more technically demanding PCBs than more traditional photo lithographic techniques.