China Contributes 13% Revenue for Speck Instruments

Reading: Spectris is a British engineering group, last year's revenue of 902 million pounds (14.9 billion US dollars), of which 97% came from outside the United Kingdom. They produce about 10,000 instruments and can be divided into 50 categories. Among them, Servomex produces instruments for semiconductor manufacturers and medical companies.

In a remote, leafy area in southern England, a worker is using a technique between the Vietnamese glassblower and the Swiss watchmaker to craft a small glass ball on top of a thin tube.

John Hill claims to be a "microtechnician." He said he has been doing this work for 31 years, but "has not yet reached the level of perfection."

Hill is one of 170 British employees in the Servomex business of Spectris. Spectris is a British engineering group with revenues of £902 million ($1.49 billion) last year, 97% of which came from outside the UK.

Watch Hill's operation at the Servomex smart factory in Crowborough, East Sussex, where John Hoiggins has been in the company for 5 years.

When he was 47 years old and he was a mechanical engineer, he said: “As far as I know, not many companies can do this kind of work, and we do not want to pass this production technology to others. It is in our hands that we control it. One of the keys to staying ahead in the industry."

Servomex is a world-leading manufacturer of gas analysis equipment and is one of the 13 operating units of Spectris. These departments of Telegraph have global reach.

These departments have their own expertise in the field of professional instrumentation and measurement equipment, and the products they produce are used for industry and research.

They produce about 10,000 instruments and can be divided into 50 categories.

Among them, Servomex produces instruments for semiconductor manufacturers and medical companies.

Other departments produce systems for measuring the vibration of air molecules to monitor noise pollution, or instruments for recording the thickness of steel pipes or optical fiber cables.

Since 2002, in addition to the economic downturn in 2008-09, the profits of Spectris have grown year by year.

Analysts in the City of London projected that in 2011, the adjusted profit of Spectris will reach around 170 million pounds, a 28% increase over the previous year, five times that of 2002. Since January 2008, the stock price of Spectris has doubled.

Nearly one-third of Bulbe's 2010 revenues came from Asia, and the Chinese market contributed 13% of its revenue to Spectris. Revenue from China is growing at a rate of 15-20% per year. For this, the quietly spoken Irishman Ho Kam-ho explained that the broad macroeconomic situation is one of the reasons.

“China and other emerging economies are increasingly interested in installing automation equipment to increase production efficiency and increase investment in healthcare and safety, both of which require the use of more specialized equipment.

"So, when you read that Chinese factories use robots instead of manpower, or build new hospitals or pollution monitoring stations, these two types of behavior are generally beneficial to us."

Most parts of Spectris focus on narrow product areas. Servomex is an example. Like most departments in the group, Servomex has only a handful of competitors around the world.

A key component of most of Servomex's products is a small sensor made by Hill that can cost up to 1,000 pounds.

In a remote, leafy area in southern England, a worker is using a technique between the Vietnamese glassmaker and the Swiss watchmaker to craft a small glass ball on top of a thin tube.

John Hill claims to be a "microtechnician." He said he has been doing this work for 31 years, but "has not yet reached the level of perfection."

Hill is one of 170 British employees in the Servomex business of Spectris. Spectris is a British engineering group with revenues of £902 million ($1.49 billion) last year, 97% of which came from outside the UK.

Watch Hill's operation at the Servomex smart factory in Crowborough, East Sussex, where John Hoiggins has been in the company for 5 years.

When he was 47 years old and he was a mechanical engineer, he said: “As far as I know, not many companies can do this kind of work, and we do not want to pass this production technology to others. It is in our hands that we control it. One of the keys to staying ahead in the industry."

Servomex is a world-leading manufacturer of gas analysis equipment and is one of the 13 operating units of Spectris. These departments of Telegraph have global reach.

These departments have their own expertise in the field of professional instrumentation and measurement equipment, and the products they produce are used for industry and research.

They produce about 10,000 instruments and can be divided into 50 categories.

Among them, Servomex produces instruments for semiconductor manufacturers and medical companies.

Other departments produce systems for measuring the vibration of air molecules to monitor noise pollution, or instruments for recording the thickness of steel pipes or optical fiber cables.

Since 2002, in addition to the economic downturn in 2008-09, the profits of Spectris have grown year by year.

Analysts in the City of London projected that in 2011, the adjusted profit of Spectris will reach around 170 million pounds, a 28% increase over the previous year, five times that of 2002. Since January 2008, the stock price of Spectris has doubled.

Nearly one-third of Bulbe's 2010 revenues came from Asia, and the Chinese market contributed 13% of its revenue to Spectris. Revenue from China is growing at a rate of 15-20% per year. For this, the quietly spoken Irishman Ho Kam-ho explained that the broad macroeconomic situation is one of the reasons.

“China and other emerging economies are increasingly interested in installing automation equipment to increase production efficiency and increase investment in healthcare and safety, both of which require the use of more specialized equipment.

"So, when you read that Chinese factories use robots instead of manpower, or build new hospitals or pollution monitoring stations, these two types of behavior are generally beneficial to us."

Most parts of Spectris focus on narrow product areas. Servomex is an example. Like most departments in the group, Servomex has only a handful of competitors around the world.

A key component of most of Servomex's products is a small sensor made by Hill that can cost up to 1,000 pounds.