Thermal Vacuum Testing for Space arrives at TK

As part of TK's MetOP-SG programme - but also to widen our Space capabilities -  TK has installed Thermal Vacuum Capabilities. The system has kindly been supplied by ESC of Cambridge.

hereTK is please to announce that we have past the stringent tests from SGS to have our QA certification uplifted to ISO9001:2015 The certificate - the result  of hard work by Mick Clack, David Green and their colleagues - can be see here.

TK has completed the installation of an atmospheric measurements system in CRIRP, Qingdao, China. The transmissometer is designed to measure long-term trends in atmospheric absorption over a 300 Metre path at 340 GHz in the coastal city of Qingdao (famous for its Beer).

TK was delighted to host Simon Jenkins of BBC Sussex on the 26th January.   The 4 minute interview with Mick Clack  - with good jokes about flea powder - can be heard by listening below:

Josh Martin has passed NVQ Engineering Level 2 and will be moving onto to study for NVQ Engineering Level 3.

Thomas Keating welcomes Sam Martin to begin his toolmaking apprenticeship. First year training will cover the manufacture of personal equipment using traditional skills to our proven designs dating back to the early 1940's.