Raingauge Manufacturers Expand to New Premises

After 15 years based at the Business & Innovation Centre in Sunderland, Environmental Measurements Ltd (EML) have moved to brand new premises in North Shields on the outskirts of Newcastle, UK. At 3300 sq.ft. the new premises are almost 3 times larger than the previous premises in Sunderland and offer EML the extra capacity required for the Company’s future growth plans. The new premises were visited recently by the Elected Mayor of North Tyneside, Mrs Linda Arkley, seen in the picture with the Company’s General Manager and Technical Director Mark Dutton (centre) looking at some of the 67-ARG100 raingauges in the final stages of assembly prior to despatch to Singapore for installation on the Provision of Hydrometric and Hydro-Meteorological Services Stormwater Management project.

The Singapore order is just one of a number of significant overseas orders received by EML recently for their range of precipitation sensors. Others include an order for 55-ARG100 raingauges for the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in France; an order for 20-rain monitoring systems incorporating the ARG100 raingauge and DT2 data logger for a major hydrological project in Burma; and an order from EML’s Russian partner, Lomo Meteo of St Petersburg for 20-UPG1000 universal precipitation/snow gauges to be delivered in 2013.

EML is now one of the largest raingauge manufacturers in Europe and it is estimated that well over 20,000 of their ARG100 aerodynamic rain gauges are now installed worldwide.