History
 
Jun 1977   Original Filtronic established
Dec 1989   Establish wireless infrastructure business
Jun 1992   Form Filtronic Comtek (UK) Ltd
Jan 1993   Form Ferrite Division, Scotland (UK)
Oct 1994   Filtronic Comtek plc placing on UK Stock Exchange - £44 million
Aug 1995   Form Filtronic Comtek Pty in Brisbane, Australia
May 1996   Ceramic investment in Wolverhampton, UK
Mar 1998   Acquire Filtronic Components and Filtronic Cable Communications
Mar 1998   Filtronic Comtek plc renamed Filtronic plc
Jun 1998   Acquisition of Sage Laboratories Inc. (USA)
Sep 1998   Acquisition of LK Products Oy (Finland) - renamed Filtronic LK Oy
Oct 1998   Acquisition of Litton Solid State Subsystems Inc. (USA) - renamed Filtronic Solid State Inc.
Apr 1999   Established Representative Office in China
Sep 1999   Acquire Fuijitsu semiconductor plant in Newton Aycliffe
Sep 1999   Form Filtronic Compound Semiconductors Ltd
Oct 1999   Form Filtronic (Suzhou) Telecommunications Products Co. Ltd
Aug 2000   Acquisition of Sigtek Inc. (USA)
Oct 2003   Filtronic reorganises into three business
divisions; Wireless Infrastructure, Handset Products, Integrated Products
Sep 2005   Filtronic completes sale of Handsets Products division to Technitrol, Inc
Oct 2005   Official opening of Filtronic Comtek (Hungary) Kft performed by HRH The Duke of York
Oct 2006   Filtronic completes sale of the filter-based transmit-receive module and power amplifier businesses of its Wireless Infrastructure Division to Powerwave Technologies Inc.
Oct 2007   Filtronic completes sale of certain business and assets of Sage Laboratories Inc. to Sage Laboratories, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of TRU Holdings, Inc.
Mar 2008   Filtronic completes sale of the Compound Semiconductor business to RFMD.
Aug 2008   Filtronic completes sale of the Defence business to Teledyne Limited


 

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