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Company Overview
Filtronic is a leader in designing, manufacturing, and testing high-performance RF components, focusing on microwave and mmWave frequencies. Their products are essential for communication networks in sectors like telecommunications, aerospace, defense, and space. Established in 1977, Filtronic is known for innovation and quality, with operations in the UK and USA.
Investor Relations
Filtronic is publicly traded on the AIM of the London Stock Exchange under the stock code FTC.
Recent Achievements
  • Leading in mmWave technology, particularly in E Band.
  • Key technology supplier to the HAPS industry.
  • Exclusive supplier in the USA for a major telecom provider.
  • Expertise in contract manufacturing for Aerospace and Defence.
  • Developed communication technology exceeding 10Gbps for trackside to train applications.
Core Competencies
  • Accelerating market entry and increasing sales and market share for clients.
  • Reducing data communication costs per Gbps.
  • Providing customized solutions to lower development and NRE costs.
  • Enhancing client products for competitive advantage.
Why Choose Filtronic?
Filtronic offers in-house expertise in designing and manufacturing bespoke microwave and mmWave components up to 114GHz, providing unique solutions for challenging RF applications.
Manufacturing and Testing
Filtronic's manufacturing involves precision microelectronics assembly, offering hybrid manufacturing services in the UK and USA. They ensure quality assurance with in-house testing facilities, including module calibration and various stress and leak tests.
Markets
  • Telecommunications Infrastructure: Supplies plug-and-play transceiver modules for 5G backhaul.
  • Critical Communications: Provides reliable products for public safety networks.
  • Aerospace and Defence: Supplies TRMs for AESA radars and other RF components.
  • Space: Develops transceiver modules for HAPS and satellite markets.
Products
  • RF Filters: Minimize interference.
  • RF Combiners: Equipment-sharing products for complex applications.
  • MMICs: High-performing devices for microwave applications.
  • Integrated Sub-systems: Includes switched filter banks, TRM modules, and power amplifiers.
Services
  • Design: Expertise in RF systems and MMICs.
  • Manufacturing: Advanced facilities for microelectronic component assembly.
  • Contract Manufacturing: Allows clients to use Filtronic's precision facilities for their designs.
Company Overview: Filtronic provides cost-effective manufacturing and sustained cost-reduction services for both high-volume and complex products. They collaborate with clients to customize products for efficient volume manufacturing, investing in hybrid assembly, advanced microwave test systems, and military standard processes.
Contact Information:
Business Address: NETPark Plexus, Thomas Wright Way, Sedgefield, County Durham, United Kingdom, TS21 3FD
Phone: +44 (0) 1740 625 163
Email: [email protected]
Website: filtronic.com
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Company overview Enabling the future of RF, microwave and mmWave communication.

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At the forefront of RF for over 40 years Experts in design, manufacture and testing of high-performance RF components Filtronic designs and manufactures products that transmit, receive and condition radio waves, particularly at microwave and mmWave frequencies. Mission-critical communication networks depend on our systems and components. With an innovative culture, we enable creative solutions for highly complex RF challenges, pushing the boundaries in terms of size, weight and power. Our products are integral to a range of challenging applications including telecommunications infrastructure,...

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We help our clients get to market quicker – increasing their sales revenues and market share. Our capabilities and technologies reduce the overall cost of data communication, lowering the cost per Gbps. Taking unique challenges & providing a customised solution, we lower development & NRE costs, minimising the cost of quality for our client. We solve problems, engineer to engineer, we drive down whole life costs. We like to know our clients inside out, identifying ways to improve their products, increasing their premium & providing them with a competitive advantage. Company overview Our purpose:...

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Why choose Filtronic? Helping our clients get to market quicker Filtronic has a unique combination of the in-house expertise to design and manufacture bespoke microwave and mmWave components for a broad range of applications to 114GHz. Our engineering team has the skill-set to design integrated modules involving complex electronic control and calibration, which deliver world-class performance and reliability. Taking unique challenges and providing a customised solution We deliver unique, customised solutions for our client’s challenging RF applications. Our specialities include MMIC design, System...

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Powered by remarkable people It is our people that really set Filtronic apart. Our highly qualified team deliver outstanding products and service to our clients. Devising and creating extremely specialised products requires skilled engineers and designers, typically educated to PhD level. We have considerable depth of technology, engineering, manufacturing and operational management expertise across our operations, and our product-development specialists have a track record of market-leading innovation. Company overview

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Advanced RF communications equipment for specialist markets. Our markets Telecommunications infrastructure (4G & 5G) Filtronic is a key supplier to leading players in the mobile telecommunications infrastructure market, and we are the ‘go-to’ partner of choice for advanced mmWave applications. We differ from other players in the 5G backhaul market because we offer highly integrated, fully calibrated transceiver modules that simply drop-in between the baseband modem module and the antenna. This plug-and-play architecture eliminates the need for clients to develop in-house mmWave expertise resulting...

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Critical communications Telecommunication Infrastructure Trackside to train Providing reliable, highspeed, high capacity connectivity on rail journeys has become a strategic objective for governments and rail operators around the world. Filtronic is developing leading solutions to overcome the challenges of providing these services, with speeds over 10Gbps. Test and measurement Leading test and measurement companies globally value Filtronic’s expertise in mmWave tests. Working on a range of test and measurement devices across the spectrum, we enable our clients to test, with rigour their own...

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Our products Our product range and wider technology capabilities are supported by our IP and in-house knowledge, and we have an extensive patent portfolio. We offer a wide range of solutions, from individual components to fully integrated, calibrated systems. RF, microwave and mmWave components: With the increased number of wireless frequencies available in any given geography, RF filters play an increasing and vital role in minimizing interference. Filtronic produces a range of filters, including metal cavity filters, ceramic, combline, interdigital, lumped element, suspended substrate, waveguide...

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Integrated sub-systems: Our expertise in system integration enables reductions in component size, improved reliability and improved overall system performance. Switched filter banks Power monitoring Front-end modules Integrating filter and switch components in a single module eliminates transitions between circuits, providing for optimal matching. Filtronic devices improve overall performance, including better insertion loss, flatness and voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR). With all components integrated into a single module, our switched filter banks are compact and save a considerable amount...

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Our services Design: highly qualified engineers with an eye for detail The Filtronic team has more than 200 years of combined experience in microwave and mmWave product design and integration. We have access to an exclusive range of in-house designed GaAs MMICs and GaN FETs. Our MMIC engineers are experienced in designing on a wide range of GaAs and GaN foundries, and in using foundry models, as well as fine tuning and optimising our own model sets. We maintain a comprehensive range of Computer Aided Design systems for microwave circuit design, system simulation, thermal design, mechanical design...

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Business Address NETPark Plexus, Thomas Wright Way, Sedgefield, County Durham, United Kingdom, TS21 3FD T: +44 (0) 1740 625 163 E: [email protected]

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*Prices are pre-tax. They exclude delivery charges and customs duties and do not include additional charges for installation or activation options. Prices are indicative only and may vary by country, with changes to the cost of raw materials and exchange rates.