Marconi Applied Technologies/ArgusDirect

Marconi Applied Technologies is a leading manufacturer of Solid-State, Free Electron Technology and Photonics-based products, supplying key components and systems to a diverse range of markets.

Operating from a UK manufacturing base, we also have offices in New York, Ontario and Paris, as well as a worldwide network of distributors, resulting in more than 60% of orders being exported.

Together with Northamptonshire-based Marconi Caswell Technologies, we form Marconi plc's exciting new Optical Components business. This organisation has the pace and edge of a start-up operation, but the credibility, technology portfolio and operational infrastructure of an established player. Marconi Optical Components brings together unique capabilities in materials sciences and in the design and development of optical components, which will be supported by expanded production capacity for optical amplifiers and active optical devices.

Marconi plc is a global communications and IT company with 49,000 employees worldwide and sales in over 100 countries. It supplies advanced communications solutions and the key technologies and services for the Internet.