Space engineering company AVS moves into Aylesbury's Westcott Venture Park
One of the top organisations in the world providing super-sophisticated instruments and equipment for huge scientific centres and space missions has relocated to Buckinghamshire's Westcott Venture Park.
Added Value Solutions (AVS) UK will be headquartered at the Westcott Innovation Centre for the next two years. The Spanish AVS group has many locations and facilities in Spain as well as a sizable facility in Ithaca, New York. AVS UK is a subsidiary of the Spanish AVS company.
AVS works with sophisticated tiny satellites for the space industry as well as complicated instrumentation, robotics, mechatronics, in-orbit services, thermal systems and more. Once an idea has been developed, AVS completes the whole engineering process for the product, including manufacture and final testing and then commissions it.
Emily Dingle, the UK Chief Operating Officer at AVS said: “We've come to Westcott because of the amount of space it offers, while still being a strategic location for us, with many customers and partners within the Oxford-Cambridge Arc. The combination of workshops and office space really suits us while there is room for future growth over the next three to five years.”
“Being part of the next series of moon missions is fantastically exciting for a small company based in Westcott. The technologies we offer are vital to the European Space Agency programme as we look to explore further into our universe."
“We look forward to seeing the development of Westcott over the coming years including improved transport and catering facilities as more and more companies choose to base themselves here at this exciting location.”
Development Manager at Westcott, Nigel MacKenzie, said this about the move: “We warmly welcome AVS to our ever-growing family of rocket companies within the Westcott Space Cluster and Enterprise Zone and are working closely with AVS in the creation of its own facility at the Park.”
Main picture courtesy of AVS
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