Valeport was established in Dartmouth in 1969 with a small product range based around the 'Braystoke' impeller flow meters. Since then, the company has grown considerably with products covering many aspects of environmental, river, estuarine, coastal, hydrographic and oceanographic instrumentation, and a customer base that includes many leading academic, research and commercial organisations throughout the world.
Valeport has an ongoing research and development programme into sensors and instruments and has long established links with universities, institutes and other research organisations to ensure the product range is continuously updated to meet user requirements.
Since its inception, Valeport has maintained a policy of investment in a wide range of in-house skills and facilities that include electronic and mechanical design, development, manufacture, assembly, test and calibration. This gives the company direct control of all engineering activities and thus enables it to provide long term product support.
The nearby River Dart, its estuary and the proximity of the open sea, enable field testing and evaluation of oceanographic instrumentation to be carried out.
The latest product is the MIDAS hydrographic system which integrates single/dual frequency echosounding with DGPS, data logging and a rechargeable battery power source providing for true flexibility and ease of use. |