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24-491: EEV or EeV may refer to: English Electric Valve Company , a designer, developer and manufacturer of electronic components and sub-systems Enhanced environmentally friendly vehicle , a car category used in European emission standards Equine encephalosis virus , a species of virus European embedded value , a type of embedded value in finance EeV (10 electronvolts),

48-475: A vertically integrated company which The Scotsman described as "[a combination of British Aerospace's] contracting and platform-building skills with Marconi's coveted electronics systems capability". for example combining the manufacturer of the Eurofighter with the company that provided many of the aircraft's electronic systems; British Aerospace was MES' largest customer. In contrast, DASA's response to

72-572: A US-based designer and supplier of speciality semiconductor components used in military and aerospace applications, establishing e2v's first US manufacturing base. In 2014 e2v acquired AnaFocus, based in Seville Spain, a designer and manufacturer of specialist CMOS imaging products. In 2016, e2v acquired Signal Processing (SP) Devices Sweden AB. In March 2017, e2v itself was acquired by Teledyne Technologies for some £627 million ($ 789mn) and changed its name to Teledyne e2v. The US acquisition

96-550: A key to his appointment. GEC favours forging a national "champion" defence group with BAe to compete with the giant US organisations". When GEC put MES up for sale on 22 December 1998, BAE abandoned the DASA merger in favour of purchasing its British rival. The merger of British Aerospace and MES was announced on 19 January 1999. Evans stated that in 2004 that his fear was that an American defence contractor would acquire MES and challenge both British Aerospace and DASA. The merger created

120-418: A major American defence contractor, for US$ 1.4 billion. The 1997 merger of American corporations Boeing and McDonnell Douglas , which followed the forming of Lockheed Martin , the world's largest defence contractor in 1995, increased the pressure on European defence companies to consolidate. In June 1997, British Aerospace Defence managing director John Weston commented "Europe... is supporting three times

144-722: A short period as Marconi Applied Technologies, and then in 2002 he led a management buy out supported by 3i following the collapse of the Marconi group . Following further growth under 3i, in 2004 the company floated on the London Stock Exchange. In 2017, e2v was acquired by Teledyne Technologies and changed its name to Teledyne e2v. The company has received 12 Queen's Awards for Technology in its history, most recently in 2006 for low-light imaging devices and in 2004 for thyratrons for cancer radiotherapy treatment. In its final annual report prior to acquisition, namely for

168-540: A subsidiary of BAE Systems, but the assets were rearranged elsewhere within that company. MES-related businesses include BAE Systems Submarine Solutions , BAE Systems Surface Ships , BAE Systems Insyte and Selex ES (now a part of Leonardo ). The Marconi Company had been formed by Guglielmo Marconi in 1897 in Britain, originally under the name of The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company. Following GEC's acquisition of Marconi as part of English Electric in 1968,

192-574: A unit of energy See also [ edit ] EEVBlog (Electronics Engineering Video Blog), a blog and YouTube channel by David L. Jones Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title EEV . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=EEV&oldid=945281350 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

216-464: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages English Electric Valve Company Teledyne e2v (previously known as e2v ) is a manufacturer with its headquarters in England, that designs, develops and manufactures systems and components in healthcare, life sciences, space, transportation, defence and security and industrial markets. The company

240-454: Is the largest image sensor flown into space. In 2015, NASA's New Horizons probe, which had launched from Earth ten years earlier, used CCDs made by e2v to capture images of Pluto. Almost four years later, in early 2019, New Horizons similarly captured and transmitted images of 486958 Arrokoth , an object located in the Kuiper belt . As of 2018, e2v was one of the suppliers of CCDs for

264-916: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope . It is also a supplier of CCDs to ESA for its FLEX satellite , which will study plant health and stress from space and is scheduled for launch into earth orbit in 2024. Major clients include: With its HQ in Chelmsford, Essex, England, e2v has two UK based design, development and manufacturing facilities ( Chelmsford , Lincoln ), one in Grenoble , France, one in Seville , Spain, and one in Milpitas , US. It also has an operational base with customer support facilities in Beijing, China. Over 30% of

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288-624: The 12 months ending March 2016, e2v's turnover was £236.4 million, of which 44% was generated from its imaging division, 34% from radiofrequency (RF) power products and 22% from semi-conductors, and it employed around 1,600 staff across nine engineering facilities and six sales offices. Its profit before tax for the same period was £37.6mn. The company has received 13 Queen's Awards for Technology in its history, most recently in 2006 for low light imaging devices and in 2004 for thyratrons for cancer radiotherapy treatment. Hugh Menown, responsible for developing double- cathode and hollow anode thyratrons,

312-783: The 4½" orthicon tube. In 1961 they acquired the Associated Electrical Industries valve business based in Lincoln . Sir Charles Oatley was a director of the company from 1966 to 1985. In 1962, EEV opened its first office in America in Buffalo , NY. In 1972, they opened an office in Paris, France and in 1977 they opened another office in Elmsford , New York. Keith Attwood, e2v's CEO from 1999 to 2013 led e2v through

336-522: The Marconi brand was used for its defence businesses, e.g. Marconi Space & Defence Systems (MSDS), Marconi Underwater Systems Ltd (MUSL). When it was bought by General Electric, MES represented the pinnacle of GEC's defence businesses which had a heritage of almost 100 years. GEC's history of military products dates back to World War I with its contribution to the war effort then including radios and bulbs. World War II consolidated this position with

360-561: The breakdown of the merger discussion was to merge with Aérospatiale to create the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company ( EADS ), a horizontal integration . EADS has since considered a merger with Thales to create a "fully rounded" company. While MES was responsible for the majority of GEC's defence sales other GEC companies achieved defence related sales, principally GEC Alsthom , GEC-Plessey Telecommunications (GPT) and GEC Plessey Semiconductors. This

384-559: The company involved in many important technological advances, most notably radar . Between 1945 and GEC's demerger of its defence business in 1999, the company became a major defence contractor . GEC's major defence related acquisitions included Associated Electrical Industries in 1967, English Electric Company (including Marconi as a subsidiary) in 1968, Yarrow Shipbuilders in 1985, parts of Ferranti 's defence business in 1990, Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering in 1995 and Kvaerner Govan in 1999. In June 1998, MES acquired Tracor ,

408-595: The number of contractors on less than half the budget of the U.S.". European governments wished to see the merger of their defence manufacturers into a single entity, a European Aerospace and Defence Company. As early as 1995, British Aerospace and the German aerospace and defence company DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (DASA) were said to be keen to create a transnational aerospace and defence company. Merger discussions began between British Aerospace and DASA in July 1998. A merger

432-587: The staff are engineers or scientists. e2v also has sales, service and technical support offices in the UK, North America, France, Japan, Korea , and Hong Kong: Marconi Electronic Systems Marconi Electronic Systems ( MES ), or GEC-Marconi as it was until 1998, was the defence arm of General Electric Company (GEC). It was split off from GEC and bought by British Aerospace (BAe) on 30 November 1999 to form BAE Systems . GEC then renamed itself Marconi plc . MES exists today as BAE Systems Electronics Limited ,

456-509: Was 70 years to the month after the original English company's registration in 1947. In its 2018 annual report, Teledyne Technologies said the final purchase price for e2v was $ 740.6 million, net of cash acquired as part of the business, adding that e2v had been Teledyne's largest acquisition in its history. Charge-coupled devices (sensitive optical imaging devices) made by e2v were used in the Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, which

480-456: Was agreed between British Aerospace chairman Richard Evans and DASA CEO Jürgen Schrempp in December 1998. GEC was also under pressure to participate in defence industry consolidation. Reporting the appointment of George Simpson as GEC managing director in 1996, The Independent had said "some analysts believe that Mr Simpson's inside knowledge of BAe, a long-rumoured GEC bid target, was

504-943: Was awarded the MBE in 1982. In 2013, e2v was awarded the Sir Arthur Clarke award for outstanding achievements by a team in space activities. In 2005, e2v purchased Gresham Scientific Instruments (renamed e2v scientific instruments), and sold in 2012 to SGX Sensortech. In 2006 it purchased the Grenoble, France facility from the Atmel Corporation in 2006 (now renamed e2v semiconductors) and MiCs Microchemical systems based in Corcelles Switzerland (renamed e2v Microsystems and sold to SGX Sensortech in 2012 ) and in October 2008 e2v acquired QP semiconductor,

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528-725: Was installed in the Hubble Space Telescope in 2009. In 2010, the company announced the establishment of the e2v microwave engineering centre in Lincoln, UK as part of a restructuring that saw the move of operational capabilities to the Chelmsford facility. In 2013 e2v supplied the CCD imaging array for the European Space Agency 's (ESA's) Gaia project to map the Milky Way . At one billion pixels, this

552-549: Was previously known as English Electric Valve Company and for a short time Marconi Applied Technologies . e2v was acquired by US company Teledyne Technologies in March 2017. The company began in the early 1940s as a part of the Marconi group, manufacturing magnetrons for defence Radar systems. The company was first registered as a separate company in Chelmsford , Essex in 1947 under Semyon Aizenshtein . Its initial name

576-514: Was the Phoenix Dynamo Co Ltd , though it immediately changed its name to English Electric Valve Company Ltd . In 1959 Bob Coulson established travelling-wave tube and microwave tube sections, and they were producing ceramic hydrogen thyratrons as well. By this time EEV was the largest hi-tech manufacturing company in the UK. A year later they won an EMMY award for outstanding contribution to electronics technology in developing

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