Manufacturing

Redditch manufacturer wins £4 million US order

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Nicky Godding

Solid State, the London-listed specialist component design and manufacturer of computing, power, and communications products, has secured a £4.05 million order for its internet of things technology to a US customer from a new franchise line supplied by Solsta, its components division, which is based in Redditch.

The contract combines hardware and software applications in an industrial application. The customer solution creates smart vending machines by enabling smart billing and intelligent inventory control and management through the combination of an industrial router and cloud based services. The success of this contract demonstrates the Group strategy of broadening its complementary technology set and internationalising the Group.

Delivery of the contract is expected to commence this year and be completed by middle of 2025.

Solsta is additionally expecting to work with the client to develop a Gen 2 5G router based successor to the current technology.

Jon Baxter, Executive Director Sales & Operations EMEA at Solsta, Solid State's components division, said: "The recent restructuring of the Pacer business in the USA has enabled this significant development in the components division.   

"This solution brings together both access to hardware and engineering know-how to create a product which matches the needs of our client exactly."

Nicky Godding

Nicky Godding is editor of The Business Magazine. Before her journalism career, she worked mainly in public relations moving into writing when she was invited to launch Retail Watch, a publication covering retail and real estate across Europe. After some years of constant travelling, she tucked away her passport and concentrated on business writing, co-founding a successful regional business magazine. She has interviewed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs who have built multi-million-pound businesses and reported on many science and technology firsts. She reports on the region’s thriving business economy from start-ups, family businesses and multi-million-pound corporations, to the professionals that support their growth and the institutions that educate the next generation of business leaders.

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