MANUFACTURING WORLD-CLASS SEISMIC INSTRUMENTATION FOR MORE THAN THIRTY FIVE YEARS
We provide a full range of products and services including:
- Supply of standard instrumentation
- Bespoke engineering and system design
- Supply of turnkey seismic monitoring systems
- Field services, including integration testing and commissioning
- Project management
- Maintenance and after-sales support
- Summary data analysis
- Quality Control
- Compliance monitoring solutions
Made in the United Kingdom...
We manufacture all of our instrumentation at our dedicated 20,000 sq. ft. facility in Aldermaston, in the UK.
Quality Management and investment in design
All of our sensors are built in clean, HEPA filtered laminar flow environments which achieve ISO Class 7 cleanliness (equivalent to FED Class 10,000).
The most critical mechanical components are designed and manufactured in-house using the latest CAD/CAM technology and are machined on our 4 state of the art CNC milling machines, including 2 robotically tended 5-axis machines. This allows for reduced lead time, tight process control, and a lean design cycle due to our ability to rapidly develop and refine product prototypes.Electronic assemblies are built to meet the standards of IPC-A-610, for quality and reliability.
Robust Supply Chain Management
Quality Assurance
Before any order leaves our facility, it is subjected to a full independent ‘user-experience’ system integration test, followed by a final QA sign off.
Güralp Systems has been certified to ISO9001 for more than ten years, and achieved the ISO9001:2015 in 2018 with no nonconformances.
Our certification recognises our quality management system covering the design and manufacture of low noise broadband seismometers, accelerometers, digitisers and networking equipment for science and engineering. Software design and development.
These high standards are maintained through regular, rigorous internal and external audits.
... and trusted by customers all over the world
Civil Engineering sector
Energy sector
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Meet our senior management team...
Chris has been Chief Executive of successful international technology and consulting companies, for nearly 20 years. This includes experience of managing privately owned firms, private equity backed businesses and divisions of listed public companies, and he has led several large international merger and acquisition transactions. He has an MBA from Cranfield School of Management, and has been a reserve army officer, an elected councillor in Westminster City Council, and a Trustee of the Royal Institution.
Having held group accountant and corporate finance roles in Amersham plc, a FTSE 100 plc. Chris went on to become the CFO in several venture and private equity backed businesses in life sciences.
Following the trade sale of the last company in 2009, where Chris was the CEO, he started his own corporate finance consultancy specialising in technology businesses. Here he advised on numerous deals from trade sales, mergers, acquisitions and distribution agreements including negotiating a trade sale that won the British Venture Capital Association deal of the year award.
As well as working in finance within the high tech sector for all of his career, Chris also holds a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College.
Neil joined the Güralp sales team in 2010 with a MSc in Geological Hazard Assessment from the University of Portsmouth, and a BSc in Physical Geography from the University of Leeds.
Neil became Head of Aftermarket Services in 2015 and was instrumental in transforming Güralp's service, repairs and technical support services, introducing a more coherent customer service focus within the business. Since early 2016 Neil has been the Commercial Director for the business, responsible for global sales activities.
Neil has extensive field experience from his time with Güralp, undertaking a number of field installations, most recently supporting a service visit to Iceland. He firmly believes in the importance of building strong relationships and is very active in meeting with our clients and distributors from across the world. Neil can frequently be found representing Güralp at international geophysics conferences and has a particular interest in projects in technically challenging environments.
Neil is a father of two and keen sportsmen and frequently engages in a wide range of activities, having recently completed his first Marathon.
Phil joined Güralp in 2014 with the remit of accelerating the process of bringing new, innovative products to market in a sustained manner. He strongly believes in providing a working environment that encourages individual freedom to innovate whilst maintaining a strong commercial connection with the engineering process.
An engineer by background, Phil has always maintained a 'hands on' approach. His commercial engineering experience is split between Electronic design and Software development. He also has a number of years’ experience in the use of CAM techniques and passionately believes in exploiting the synergy between computer aided design and computer aided manufacturing techniques.
As Manufacturing Director, John has overall responsibility for all delivery functions including Procurement, Planning, Manufacturing and Facilities. He has an innovative and strongly commercial approach with a record of successful business development, cross-functional management and operational effectiveness within the high technology manufacturing environment.
John initially joined the engineering team at Güralp in 2014 bringing extensive operational management experience including proven capabilities in team building, project delivery, process analysis, change implementation and stakeholder relations.
Previous roles include twelve years as Operations Director and several other senior leadership roles in technology firms spanning satellite communications, broadcast technology and support engineering services.
As Technical Director, Chris has responsibility for the quality of our instrumentation, incorporating the instrument test and calibration processes as well as our dedicated service and repair department.
Chris joined Güralp over thirty years ago and played an instrumental role in developing the technology that established the reputation of the company. He has extensive understanding of the full Güralp product range dating back to our original 3T seismometer, still in production today.
During his time with Güralp, Chris has played a lead role on many significant projects, personally performing a number of deployments on behalf of Güralp and our customers in projects around the world. His contribution to the design, manufacture, training and support of these projects gives him a first-hand insight into the imperative of producing high quality instrumentation that performs as expected.
...and our client relationship team.
Our global commercial team has regional responsibility for providing project and tender management support to our distributors and being the main point of communication with our customers.
James Lindsey
Americas
During his time in Southampton, James practiced geophysical data processing and field techniques including the use of SeismComP to process offshore OBS data from the PI-LAB project.
James now manages our projects and sales activities across the Americas, coordinating with a trusted group of local distributors to deliver quality sales support to Güralp customers in the region.
In his spare time, James enjoys playing football (soccer) and hiking along the UK’s south coast.
Aaron Clarke
Northern Europe
Aaron joined Güralp in early 2023, coming from a varied technical sales background. With experience covering several scientific sectors, such as: Oceanographic Research, Regulatory Compliance and Petrochemicals, he is familiar with working with a range of clients ranging from large Multinationals and Public Bodies to small startups. He also holds a Bsc in Marine Biology
When not in the office Aaron enjoys rock climbing, scuba diving and is a car enthusiast and miniature painter.
Ella Price
Asia
Ella had her first introduction to Güralp when she joined us for work experience during her last year at school, so we are delighted that she elected to return to us after completing her academic studies.
Ivan Kabalila
Middle East and Africa
Prior to joining us, Ivan worked for several years in a logistical role in the construction industry.
Connor Foster
Sales Support
Assistant
Connor joined us in 2022 and has been developing his knowledge of the Güralp product range whilst producing quotes for our distributors and providing support across the global sales and marketing team.
Previously, Connor studied Classical French cuisine and worked in Micheline-starred restaurants after graduating college.
Outside of work, Connor enjoys spending his time in the Gym, working on and driving cars as well as sports target shooting.