MANUFACTURING WORLD-CLASS SEISMIC INSTRUMENTATION FOR MORE THAN THIRTY 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 accredited to ISO9001 for more than ten years, and achieved the ISO9001:2015 in 2018 with no nonconformances.
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...
The Güralp team is led by Executive Chairman, Dr Chris Potts who has a PhD in Seismology from Cambridge University. He is supported by a Board of Directors responsible for bringing the latest Güralp products and services to market:
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 in addition to his aftermarket responsibilities.
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.
His broad experience covers all aspects of business including Operations, Sales, Engineering, Business Systems and Finance across market sectors including Manufacturing, International Supply Chain Management, and Seismology.
Gordon joined the team at Güralp in 2014 as Head of Operations before being appointed to the Board in 2015. Responsible for all aspects of Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Business Systems and Quality Assurance, Gordon is driven by a constant desire to improve and refine our manufacturing processes, and is dedicated above all else to the timely delivery of quality products to our clients worldwide.
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.
...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.
Will joined Güralp in August 2017, shortly after graduating with a BA in Natural Sciences and an MSci in Earth Sciences from the University of Cambridge.
Will has spent time working at the British Antarctic Survey and GFZ Potsdam analysing geophysical, geochemical and landslide data collected on rapid response field campaigns conducted during his MSci research after the 2015 Gorkha earthquakes.
Will began his work at Güralp focussing on China and Central Asia, taking a particular interest in rapid response deployments. This geographical region has since expanded to include India and the USA. Will makes regular visits to these areas and is always willing to arrange meetings at conferences or specific visits to discuss future projects.
Will’s key concentrations now are focussed on delivering simple-to-deploy systems in response to major events as well as introducing innovative hardware such as posthole and borehole equipment to improve accuracy in existing broadband networks.
Eleanor has previously worked at the British Geological Survey as part of their Field Seismology Team. She enjoys seismic fieldwork, and learning more about the advancements in technology that Güralp are putting into new generation instruments. Within Güralp, Eleanor works to supply equipment to projects in Asia.
Sally is part of the EMEA client relationship team, with responsibility for South Eastern Europe and the continent of Africa.
Cassandra is focused on supporting our distributors with the supply of seismic systems to the Asian market and is particularly interested in seismic research, structural health monitoring, and learning all she can about Güralp’s product range.
Sadie has been working at Guralp since January 2019. She earned a BSc in Geophysical Sciences at the University of Southampton, focusing on geomagnetic reversals and has a keen interest in applied and marine geophysics.
Whilst undertaking her Bachelors, Sadie spent time collecting and analysing seismic data in various field locations as part of her study into seismology and natural hazards. During this time she developed a keen interest in plate tectonics and the dynamics of the lithosphere.
Sadie has started her professional career as a sales manager for the Americas covering the region of Latin America.
James joined Güralp in July 2019 after completing his Masters degree in Geophysics at the University of Southampton. He has now joined the Americas team within Güralp’s sales team as a sales manager.
James’ masters project focused on the correction of bathymetry datasets through analysis of sound velocity profiles and also has experience of working with OBS data from the NERC funded CHIMNEY project investigating the risks of leaks from storing CO2 under the seabed.
Marie joined Güralp in January 2019 after two years working in Luxembourg for a civil engineering consultancy firm as a project engineer. She has now joined Güralp’s sales team as a sales manager for Europe.
Marie graduated in 2015 from the Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble with a MSc in Earth Sciences focused on tectonics. Her graduate work included three-dimensional digital and analogue modelling of the Tibetan Plateau based on the interpretation of field and geophysical data.
Sofia joined Güralp in 2016 as a Support Technician after completing her Masters in Automation Engineering at the University of Padova. Her thesis, on the subject of ‘control theory’ was based on a project she undertook at the Institut de Robotica i Informatica Industrial of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona.
Since joining, Sofia has developed her knowledge of the Güralp product range, she is now delivering training, support on our new product range to our customers and distributors as a Support Engineer, as well as producing documentation for new OBS systems and testing new software releases. Additionally, Sofia has sales responsibility for the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese markets.
