As a global leader in ultrasonic instrumentation, Coltraco Ultrasonics is proud of its industry-leading products and record. See some of our proudest moments and achievements below:
- Creation of our 120th export market
- Successfully navigated COVID19 without entering furlough at any stage
- Top 30 Global Vendor to Vestas, one of the world’s largest renewable wind energy companies
- We are the only UK company to have won 4 Intellectual Property theft cases in the Beijing Courts in China over 3.5 years
- Hong Kong Construction Industry Council Approval for for buildings’ airtightness and energy loss Portascanner® AIRTIGHT
- Original Signatory of the UK Women in Maritime Taskforce, September 2018
- Original Signatory of UK Armed Forces Covenant, September 2018
Awards
- Two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in 2019 and 2022
- Innovate UK citation of our Portascanner® COVID19 28-week technology track as “outstanding” in 2021
- Heathrow Global Britain Business Champions, September 2021, Winner
- Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) Awards 2020 Highly Commended for “Innovation of the Year for Fire”
- Lifetime Export Achievement Award, Mansion House 2019
- Young Exporter of the Year Award, Mansion House 2019
- Winner at the IHS Markit Safety at Sea Awards 2018 for “Best Safety Product of the Year”
- Winner at the SHE Awards 2018 for “Innovation of the Year for Fire” (Portasteele CALCULATOR)
- Seatrade Maritime Asia Awards 2018 for “Safety Initiative of the Year”
- Innovate UK “Best of British Innovators”, November 2017 Awarded to just 100 companies in the UK
- Winner at the UBM Seatrade Cruise Awards 2017, for “Supplier of the Year”
World-Leading Product Launches
- 2023 – Portascanner® WWATERTIGHT PRO – Ensuring watertightness on naval and merchant ships around the world
- 2022 – Portascanner® AIRTIGHT – Tested the airtightness of the Shanghai Tower, the world’s 2nd tallest building
- 2021 – Portasonic™ Calculator – World’s first pipe pressure calculator
- 2020 – Portasteele™ Calculator – World’s first liquid level to agent weight calculator
Notable Customers
Below are some of our most notable customers over the years.
- Sellafield, the UK’s former Atomic Energy Authority
- National Aeronautics & Space Agency (NASA)
- 90% of the UK and USA’s nuclear power stations
- Supplying the majority of wind energy locations of Vestas
- Supplied over 100 ships of the US Navy
- Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard – Complete Fleet contracts
- Royal Canadian Navy
- Royal Navy
- Royal Malaysian Navy
- Royal Air Force
- Spanish Navy
- Irish Naval Service
- Numerous global ship management companies
Our Initiatives
- Created the Centre for Underwater Acoustic Analysis (CUAA) as a “gift for the nation” for the Royal Navy in 2022-23
- Created our Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul, Calibration & Certification (MROCC) capability based at our laboratory in 2022
- Established the Durham Institute of Research, Development & Invention (DIRDI) at Durham University from 2021-22
- Laboratory co-located with Centre for Advanced Instrumentation, Department of Physics, Durham University, established in 2021
- Established our Global Distribution Network (GDN) strategy
- External stakeholder to UK Government’s 30-year Maritime 2050 strategy in maritime safety
- UK Research & Innovation/Innovate UK Net Zero Heat Cohort member for Built Environment energy loss and airtightness
Classifications, Certifications, and Approvals
- ABS Classification Society Type Approval
- RINA Classification Society Type Approval
- UL Listing
- KD983 UK Government NATO Company CAGE codes
- NATO Stock Nos.
- IMPA Part Nos.
- Fire Safety and Equipment Centre of Japan (FESC) Approval
- Zone 1 ATEX – Hazardous or explosive environment certification
- ISO 9001
- ISO 14001
- CE
- UKAS
- IMO SOLAS Fire Safety Systems (FSS) Code and MSC.1/1318 compliant
- IMO SOLAS Reg II-1/21.3 water tightness compliant
- BS ISO 14520 Gaseous Extinguishing Systems compliant
