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Expanding production at LiverpoolTo accommodate the present increase in demand, MPE has been consistently investing in its manufacturing facility and direct production staff, with its manufacturing team increasing by some 27% over the last 12 months. Additional production personnel have been added across almost all functions. Areas including MPE’s proprietary capacitor winding facility, as well as the fabrication, inductor winding, assembly and dispatch functions, have been further augmented. Strengthening in these areas has been fundamental in MPE’s ability to fulfil larger project and custom project requirements. |
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Spotlight on Satnam SinghSatnam Singh conducts the design and development of new and existing products. He evaluates components and builds and tests prototype circuits. He has been heavily involved in MPE’s continuous improvement strategy, working closely with shopfloor production to ensure that existing filter designs can be manufactured as efficiently as possible. His new product development work has included current overload testing for a high-profile export project, as well as assessing the requirements of DEF-STAN 59-411 (Land Class A) for a new filter in a UK defence application. |
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Maintaining MPE’s strong pulseIn late 2017 MPE contracted the specialist US defence industry test house Jaxon Engineering & Maintenance of Colorado Springs to conduct further independent pulse current injection (PCI) testing of MPE’s HEMP protection filters. In attendance and assisting throughout this period of testing was MPE Design Engineer John Lindsay, enabling a flexible approach to the testing program and maximising the use of laboratory resource and time. PCI testing of MPE’s suite of commercial HEMP filters was conducted in line with the Standard IEC 61000-4-24. |
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HEMP expertise from MPE in demandSeptember 2017 saw the latest IEC SC77 Committee meeting take place in Kashiwa City, Japan. MPE design engineer John Lindsay participated as a technical expert representing the BSI and UK interests. Recent EMP and HEMP market activity was high on the agenda. Then, during October the annual EMSEC Workshop was hosted in Seoul by the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science (KIEES): Paul Currie of MPE delivered a presentation entitled “Global Trends within EMP/HEMP Filter Solutions”. |
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New distribution partner for ChinaMPE has signed Xi’An Tech Crown as its territory distributor for mainland China. The company is a subsidiary of Xi'An Henderson Optoelectronics Technology Co Ltd, which was founded in 2010 and now numbers 70 staff, 50 of whom are directly involved in research and production. From its base at Xi’An, capital city of Shaanxi Province in central China, Xi’An Tech Crown provides the design and supply of turnkey EMC and EMP solutions along with comprehensive training. |
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A decade of Israeli successAviem Systems Ltd of Netanya, near Tel Aviv, was appointed MPE’s distributor for Israel back in 2007. Sales within the territory continue to increase, and Aviem features consistently as one of MPE’s best performing distributors. The company provides marketing, sales and support for power electronic systems, including UPS systems, rectifiers, converters, filters and power supplies throughout Israel. Quality assurance is certified by the Israeli Standards Institute to ISO9001:2008 and also to Israel’s Ministry of Defense requirements. |
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Straight talking with MPE filteringBased on a satellite constellation, Presidential and National Voice Conferencing (PNVC) will provide a voice conferencing capability for the President, Secretary of Defense and other senior national and military leaders of the USA. In support of this program, MPE has designed and developed a custom HEMP filtering solution for the protection of the air and ground, fixed and transportable, “command post terminals” within the system. Via territory distributor, Technical Sales Solutions (TSS), MPE has delivered filters for integration prior to testing and verification at Raytheon. |
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Intelligent vehicle test chamber in KoreaChampioning MPE’s interests in South Korea, one of MPE’s top three sales territories last year, Eretec has completed a large anechoic chamber installation for testing intelligent automobiles at the INFAC Corporation. Eretec supplied and installed a complete turnkey chamber solution, including EMC shielding, EMC doors, EMC filters, waveguides and all internal equipment systems including pyramidal absorbers. Incorporated in this were power and dataline filters from MPE’s standard ranges of high-performance EMC filters, featuring high attenuation performance levels across the full frequency spectrum. |
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