Tekdata Interconnections has invested in SolidWorks 3D CAD tools to support ongoing expansion of its specialist design services for complex wiring and mechanical assemblies.

Tekdata Interconnections has successfully completed custom wiring for an underwater analysis pod designed to operate up to 100 metres depth, enabling its customer, defence contractor Systems Engineering and Assessment Ltd (SEA), to deliver the completed pod within tight constraints on time and cost.

Tekdata Interconnections’ Cryoconnect division have supplied to ALMA a new generation of cryogenic looms which are at the front end of data collection, which will enable a team of international scientists to study distant galaxies. The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) is a European Southern Observatory (ESO) led international partnership between Europe, North America, East Asia and the Republic of Chile.

Tekdata Interconnections announced it is in contention for a European Supply Chain Excellence award in the Automotive, Aerospace & Industrial category. The winner will be announced at the Awards dinner on held Thursday 18th November at London's Grosvenor House Hotel in Mayfair. The European Supply Chain Excellence Awards were launched in 1997 as an initiative to recognise and reward organisations across Europe that demonstrate excellence in their...

Tekdata Interconnections Ltd officially opened its new facility on Thursday, July 8. Professor Keith Mason, CEO of the Science & Technologies Facilities Council and Ernie Edwards, Managing Director of Tekdata Interconnections, cut the traditional ribbon – albeit a more rugged version of it as a tribute to the company’s innovative cabling products – to declare open the facility. The ribbon used was representative of the wiring Tekdata desig...

Tekdata Interconnections has completed delivery of 10 test benches supporting Spain’s Eurofighter Typhoon programme, meeting a demanding design and assembly schedule that required the project to be completed within one year. The test benches form part of a suite used to test and integrate the entire avionics fitment for each aircraft before installation and ongoing diagnostics.

Tekdata Interconnections announced it has signed up to the ‘Skills Pledge’ programme, a voluntary and public commitment made by companies to invest in the skills of its workforce. The company has come a long way from a point six years ago when there was little formal training and development programme in existence.

Tekdata Interconnections’ Cryoconnect Division has delivered wiring harnesses for the UK Astronomy Technology Centre’s SCUBA 2 project, the world’s first large-format CCD-like camera for sub-millimetre astronomy, which is being integrated with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii. The harnesses use Tekdata’s connector-less vacuum feedthrough technology to couple the detector array, which has more than 10,000 pixels, to the SCUBA 2 ...

Tekdata, the UK-based specialist in high-performance interconnects for markets such as defence, aerospace, energy management and space exploration, has announced a 23% increase in turnover for the last financial year and, unlike many businesses today, is increasing staffing to continue improving its performance.

Tekdata Interconnections' Cryoconnect Division has completed delivery of bespoke flight harnesses for the Alpha Mass Spectrometer, a space-research instrument due to be launched to the International Space Station aboard one of the last ever NASA Space Shuttle missions in July 2010.

Tekdata is proud to announce it reached the finalist stage of The National Business Awards. The company qualified in the category Small to Medium Sized Business of the Year Award for which a formal presentation was made to the jury on 29th September; the award ceremony will take place on 10th November at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London.

Tekdata Interconnections Ltd, a leading wiring systems specialist with some of the world's largest companies as customers and partners, today announced it will be relocating nearby to its manufacturing facilities in Stoke-on-Trent and very close to its origins. This move will help the company serve its existing and new client base from both sides of the Atlantic, and provide a better working environment to its workforce which increased by over 25...

The Ariane 5 space mission has just launched carrying two satellites to collect signals remaining from the Big Bang, which will rely on ultra-low-temperature electrical interconnects developed by Tekdata. The satellites on board are the Herschel Space Telescope, which is the largest optical space telescope ever launched, and the Planck satellite for radiation measurement. Planck’s instruments are capable of measuring radiation levels below two ...

Tekdata Interconnections Ltd has been presented with the first ever ‘Company of the Year for Innovation’ award by Northern Defence Industries (NDI), an association of more than 200 leading British SMEs working in the defence industry. The award is in recognition of Tekdata’s wide range of technologies and innovative solutions applied to many technically challenging problems. Ernie Edwards, Managing Director of Tekdata, accepted this newly-c...

Amid growing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by armed forces, both for intelligence gathering and strike operations, Tekdata Interconnections Limited has delivered high-performance, lightweight actuator harnesses to help progress the UK’s Mantis medium-altitude long-endurance UAV project.

Tekdata’s expertise in specialist interconnects is helping hasten the arrival of all-electric aircraft, which eliminate bulky hydraulic actuators and bleed systems for lighter and more efficient planes. Tekdata has completed development of the wiring harness for GE Aviation’s actuation system for the Elgear electrically actuated landing gear aimed at the Airbus A320 replacement airliner.

Tekdata Interconnections has been awarded a major contract from Northrop Grumman to provide wiring harnesses for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) program. Tekdata will provide technical expertise and build the high-specification cryogenic wiring harnesses that will connect parts of the JWST in orbit.

Tekdata Interconnections is pleased to report it has just broken a number of records: not only has the company’s production reached record levels, but in the last five months it has had three of its five best months in terms of order intake. The largest single element in its current production is a range of jet engine and fuel control units.

Tekdata Interconnect is now offering a complete range of solutions for FRES (Future Rapid Effect System) and other military vehicles. Tekdata not only does provide a complete design, development, prototyping, trialling and production service, but the company can also do supply the complete range of cables and harnesses that is needed in a modern military land vehicle.

Tekdata Interconnect is claiming a breakthrough in the design and manufacturing of medical interconnections by developing a new set of medical connectors designed around a two-pin block as the core of a flexible and modular interconnect system. Operators can quickly configure connectors up to 48 channels “on the ward”. The Stoke-on-Trent manufacturer is also using hygienically recyclable components, such as the moulded-bellows contact desig...