News & Events
11/11/2011 - ROYAL VISITOR PRESENTS QUEEN'S AWARD TO RADIO DESIGN
The staff of Radio Design were honoured today, to welcome the Duke of Gloucester to their Shipley, UK headquarters. The Duke, accompanied by the Lord Lieutenant of Bradford, unveiled a plaque in the company’s research facilities to commemorate Radio Design’s achievement of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation, 2011.
The prestigious and internationally recognised Queen’s Award has been won just four years after Radio Design was founded, and acknowledges the pioneering work of the company’s engineering team. The award specifically recognises Radio Design’s universal RF combiner unit, which enables multiple wireless network operators to share infrastructure equipment and enjoy significant financial, technical and environmental benefits as a result.
During his visit, the Duke of Gloucester was given a tour of Radio Design’s R&D and manufacturing facilities by the company’s managing director, Eric Hawthorn, who commented, “The Queen’s Award is an internationally recognised symbol of quality and excellence and represents a fitting reward for all the team’s hard work to generate commercial success. For a relatively young company, it is a privilege to receive this award as recognition of what we have achieved in such a short time.”
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04/05/2011 -RADIO
DESIGN ON THE SHORTLIST FOR BRITAIN'S TOP ENGINEERING
INNOVATION AWARD - Visit www.raeng.org.uk
Four
of the country’s finest engineering teams
are on the shortlist for Britain’s biggest
engineering innovation prize – the Royal
Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award. The
finalists for the £50,000 prize for 2011
are:
- Microsoft Research for the machine learning
capability of the Kinect human motion capture
system, used with Xbox 360, the Microsoft games
console
- Radio Design Ltd for the radio frequency
filter that allows telephone companies like
Orange and T-mobile to share their networks
- Jaguar for the new lightweight aluminium XJ
body, the first production car to be made using
aerospace cold joining technology
- Defence Science & Technology Laboratory
for a new modular ceramic armour system for
armoured personnel carriers.
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21/04/2011 -RADIO
DESIGN WINS QUEEN’S AWARD FOR INNOVATION
Radio
Design’s award is for outstanding innovation,
with demonstrated commercial success, over at
least 2 years.
Radio Design's MD, Eric Hawthorn, said, “our
team are honoured and proud to have received
this award which recognises engineering excellence
and the hard work required to turn this into
a commercial success. The Queen's Awards for
Enterprise are an internationally recognised
symbol of excellence which will greatly assist
with the promotion of our business at home and
abroad.”
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07/12/10
- RADIO DESIGN APPOINTS TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
"I
am pleased to announce that Martin Gostling
has been appointed to the position of Technical
Director". - Eric Hawthorn MD
This appointment results from the continued
successful growth of the company and the need
to keep a strong focus on technology strategy.
Radio Design has attained a market leading position
and is committed to maintaining this through
customer service, product quality, competitive
pricing and technology leadership. Martin will
have responsibility for the global technology
strategy of the company.
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Martin
graduated in 1996 with an MA, 1st class, in
Mathematics from Cambridge University. This
was followed by a Master of Mathematics from
Cambridge and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from
Leeds University. Martin joined Radio Design
after 7 years filter and systems design with
Filtronic and was our very first employee.
Martin is married to Alex and has a one year
old son, James. In his “spare” time
he is a member of Leeds City Athletics Club
and competes in their track & cross country
teams at national events.
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25/06/2010 - PHILIP DAVIES, MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
FOR SHIPLEY, VISITS RADIO DESIGN
Radio
Design Managing Director, Eric Hawthorn, welcomed
Philip Davies to the company’s headquarters
in his constituency of Shipley, West Yorkshire.
The visit followed Radio Design's success in the
recent Innovator/10
awards where the company won in the “Young
Innovative Business” category.
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During the visit they discussed the recent emergency
budget presented by The Chancellor of the Exchequer
to Parliament on 22 June 2010. Mr Hawthorn agreed
that concerns raised in his recent question
to the Prime Minister regarding incentives and
encouragement for entrepreneurs had been adequately
addressed by the budget.
Radio Design is becoming recognised as the
world leader in the design and manufacture of
bespoke filter solutions for network sharing
applications. The company currently supplies
custom designed filter systems to leading cellular
infrastructure OEMs and cellular network operating
companies worldwide. Radio Design products are
used in some of the biggest shared cellular
networks. Radio Design operates from facilities
in the UK, India and Finland.
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03/06/2010 -
RADIO DESIGN PRESENTING AT 10TH ANNUAL NETWORK STRATEGY
EVENT
| Radio
Design is presenting at the IIR 10th annual
Network Strategy event, "Managed Services
& Network Sharing" 29th June 2010,
Grange City Hotel, London. Managing Director,
Eric Hawthorn will present a paper titled "Assessing
the benefits of network sharing technology."
Visit the Website -
http://www.iir-telecoms.com/event/networkstrategy |
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29/05/2010 -
MD ERIC HAWTHORN QUESTIONS PM DAVID CAMERON
Managing
Director, Eric Hawthorn, poses a question to David Cameron
on capital gains tax at 22 min 45 sec into the
attached video clip. |
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HERE TO SEE CLIP
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28/05/2010
- MD ERIC HAWTHORN INTERVIEWED BY ITV NEWS
Managing
Director, Eric Hawthorn, interviewed by Chris
Ship, Political Correspondent, ITV News, following
David Cameron's first major speech as Prime
Minister "Transforming the British economy:
Coalition strategy for economic growth"
which was presented on May 28th at Salts Mill.
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20/04/2010
- NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS AND BASESTATIONS 2010
Radio Design was a silver sponsor of the Next
Generation Networks & Basestations 2010
Conference, April 19th - 21st, 2010 Bath, UK.
Systems Expert, Martin Gostl ing,
presented a paper on “Network Sharing
– Maximise Benefits With Innovative Filter
Combining”.
Andrew Bateman (CEO Avren Events) stated “Radio
Design’s perspective on network sharing
complimented earlier operator and analyst presentations
with their perspective on filter combiners as
an essential part of optimally designed networks.”
Click
here for "Avren Events: Next Generation Networks
and Basestations 2010"
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15/03/2010
- TELEGRAPH AND ARGUS PRESS ARTICLE
| Radio Design press
article - "Boffins at a specialist electronics
firm have been rewarded for their ingenuity
in helping to cut costs for mobile phone companies." Click here to read full article.
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04/03/2010
- RADIO DESIGN WINS YOUNG INNOVATIVE BUSINESS AWARD
Radio
Design was presented the Young Innovative Business
Award at the Yorkshire Forward Innovator/10
Awards Ceremony, which took place on the 3rd
March 2010. We are delighted to have won this
award which is aimed at businesses that have
shown creativity and entrepreneurial flair in
the launch and early growth of a business. |
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From left to right:
Yorkshire Innovation - Richard Gregory, Eden Project
Founder - Tim Smit, Radio Design Managing Director
- Eric Hawthorn, Yorkshire Forward Board Member
- Julie Kenny, Radio Design Filters Expert - Liz
Phillips, Radio Design Programmes Director - Paul
Trigg and Radio Design Systems Expert - Martin
Gostling. |
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http://www.itv.com/news/economic-unrest11999/
05/06/2009
- RADIO DESIGN EXPANDS TO INDIA: Radio Design India
Private Ltd
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Design is pleased to announce the opening of
its headquarters in Gurgaon, India and the establishment,
in December 2008, of its subsidiary company
Radio Design India Pvt Ltd.
Our team in India is headed by Mr Gaurav Chauhan
(Director of Radio Design India Pvt Ltd) who
holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics
& Telecommunication (First Class with Distinction).
He brings an excellent blend of hands-on experience
in all aspects of Cellular RF Network Planning
and Optimisation along with skills in Business
Administration, Sales and Technical Support
of RF products. |
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24/11/2008
- RADIO DESIGN EXPANDS TO FINLAND: Radio Design Oy
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Design is pleased to announce the opening of
its Oulu, Finland R&D centre. Headed by
Mr Jorma Ohtonen, MD Radio Design Oy and Regional
Director Radio Design Ltd. The opening of this
facility marks a significant milestone in the
company’s continued growth and success
providing support to Nordic operators and OEMs.
The R&D team will work hand in hand with
Radio Design’s UK based filter systems
experts to ensure that cost effective products
are designed and developed to fully meet customer
requirements in a market where filtering challenges
continue to grow in complexity. |
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Radio Design Oy
Kaarnatie 27
90530 Oulu
Finland
For more information contact:
Jorma Ohtonen
Tel: +358 40 822 6125
Email: Jorma.ohtonen@radiodesign.eu
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21/04/2008
- LAUNCH OF OPERATOR SITE SHARE COMBINER
Radio Design have launched an Operator Site Sharing
Combiner. This unique product allows two 3G operators
to share the entire antenna system and therefore allows
for effective site sharing and significant reductions
in both OPEX and CAPEX. A 2G path is included that
allows for 2G BTS to also share the site and antenna
system and therefore deliver further savings to the
operators. The main features of the combiner are:
- Low loss in all Tx and Rx paths
- Allows both Rx and Tx diversity
- 2G/3G combining included in the same unit reducing
overall system losses
- AISG layer one converter included removing need
for additional smart bias-Ts
- Designed to fit in a large range of cabinets
and suitable for both indoor and outdoor use
01/03/2008 - SALES
DIRECTOR APPOINTMENT
Effective March 1st 2008 Radio
Design is very pleased to announce the appointment
of Anthony Chadwick to the position of Sales
Director.
Anthony has over 10 years of sales experience
within the telecommunications industry. He has
successfully driven revenue growth for leading
wireless telecommunications providers within
both the OEM and network operator segments.
His career includes senior sales leadership
positions with Filtronic Comtek and Powerwave
Technologies. He has extensive experience in
both the developed and emerging markets and
has successfully established direct and indirect
sales channels within these regions.
Please join me in welcoming Anthony to the
Radio Design team and wishing him every success
in his new career. |
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28/02/2008 -
TEAMBUILDING WALK
On a rare sunny day in West Yorkshire members of the
Radio Design engineering team conquered the peaks
of Ilkley Moor. Most of us have worked together for
at least 10 years and some for as many as 25! We still
enjoy each other’s company and make sure we
find time to fit in some social events to our busy
work schedules. Pictured here from left to right:
Iain Rawson – Mechanical Expert, Adam Wilder
– Filter Expert, Paul Hickling – RF Electronics
Expert, Phil Sleigh – Filter Expert, Paul Trigg
– Programmes Director, John Tinker – Manufacturing
and Materials Expert, Martin Gostling – Systems
Expert.
18/12/2007 - RADIO DESIGN
CERTIFIED ISO9001 COMPLIANT
Radio Design was recommended for the certificate of
approval for its’ Quality Management System
compliant to ISO 9001:2000 by Lloyds Register QA on
18th December 2007. This achievement was less than
6 months from the launch of Radio Design. The premises
audited were the offices and development labs at its
Shipley location. The certification is for ‘provision
of design and product development services for the
wireless infrastructure market.’ The certificate
itself was presented on 1st February 2008.
10/07/2007 - NEW TEAM APPOINTMENT
Radio Design is pleased to announce the appointment
of a team of filter systems experts with over 200
years collective design and manufacturing experience
in the wireless infrastructure base station market.
Operating from headquarters in Shipley, West Yorkshire,
this team will provide products, design and support
services globally.
09/07/2007 - NEW MANAGING DIRECTOR
APPOINTMENT
Radio Design, a division of TRAC International Ltd,
is pleased to announce the appointment of Eric Hawthorn,
BSc (Hons), FIET, CEng, to the position of Managing
Director. With over 20 years experience in RF systems
for wireless infrastructure base stations, Mr Hawthorn
will lead a team of engineering experts and specialists
providing filter systems product development, design
and support services.
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