Press releases
Information material sent from NortekUSA to newspapers or journals
- New navigation capability to PUMA Ocean Racing Team
- Nortek announced today that it has collaborated with the PUMA Ocean Racing team to develop a modified compact Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) for PUMA’s Mar Mostro Volvo Open 70 yacht competing in the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012. The project, which was completed over the course of the past year, has resulted in the successful integration of boat speed, leeway and in-situ ocean current readings. Translation: a secret weapon in the battle to go as fast and efficiently as possible.
- Nortek User Symposium with focus on Renewable Energy
- Nortek UK would like to invite you to our first Offshore Renewables Symposium which will be held on the 26th and 27th October at the Sheraton Skyline near Heathrow Airport and focus on the “Use of acoustic Doppler measurement technology in the field of offshore renewable Energy.”
- Nortek b.v. acquires SeaDarq b.v.
- Nortek b.v. in the Netherlands has acquired SeaDarq b.v., a Dutch company that specializes in software enhanced radar systems with special focus on oil spill detection, small object detection, and upper layer current measurements
- Nortek music video
- Well, it isn't Michael Jackson but our latest 3D animation video with music from Guthrie Govan "Waves" is fun both to watch and listen to. A smaller version is available for download so you can explain to your relatives in 90 seconds what you do for a living.
- News
- NortekUSA Technical Symposium a Great Success!
- Scientists and engineers from across the globe gathered last week in beautiful Newport, Rhode Island for three days of presentations and training sessions on the use of Nortek instruments.
- The CWTM Conference (20-23 March) Features Much Exciting Nortek Research
- This March, Nortek will be well represented at the IEEE/OES Tenth Current, Waves and Turbulence Conference. Ten papers featuring research performed with the use of Nortek AWACs, Z-cells, Aquadopps, and Vectrinos will be presented.
- Nortek Brasil comes to life
- With the enormous focus on deep-water offshore activity in Brazil lately Nortek is pleased to announce the opening of our new office in Rio de Janeiro.
- 2010 User Symposium presentations
- What a fantastic atmosphere! What an impressive list of highly interesting presentations! The 2010 User Symposium held at Nortek's main office in June was a big success in every aspect of the word, and we already look forward to next year's seminar with great enthusiasm. In the meantime you will find a list of this year's presentations here:
- Expanding UK offices with additional sales engineer
- Due to our strong growth over the past years, Nortek UK will shortly be moving to new offices and we are now seeking a new sales engineer to serve the scientific and survey community, within UK and Ireland.
- New Managing Director at Nortek
- We are pleased to announce that Tore Hofstad has joined Nortek as our managing director. His arrival is part of an effort to to manage our continued growth, and he has already been joined by our new director of engineering, Håkon Steinbakk.
- Backstage information
- What do you do when you want to find informal ways to share information but you are too old for Facebook? If you want to be a little innovative, a possibility is to set up your own "Backstage" blog.
- ISO recertification complete
- We are pleased to announce that Nortek has been recertified for another three years under the ISO 9001:2008 standard. This means that the auditors have found that our production, development and distribution system for Doppler velocity systems are in compliance with the requirements of the standards.
- Happy New Year
- After a period of relative calm, we stand in front of a new year that we hope will bring important news in the form of new Doppler products and models. In the spirit of sharing, we have put down a few thoughts about 2009/2010 and what the new developments will mean for the measurement of ocean and coastal processes.
- Large array of Vectrinos
- Remember a year ago, when we announced the sale of 28 Vectrinos to State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering of Dalian University of Technology in China? These have since then been put into operation, in a fairly spectacular sensor setup.
- New Wave Analysis Software
- Nortek in the US has partnered with WaveForce Technologies to provide a new comprehensive directional wave post-processing software toolbox called "Wavector"
- Aquadopp improves HiPAP® performance
- Kongsberg Maritime has developed a new system for measuring ocean currents along drilling risers. The data can be intergrated with the Kongsberg HiPAP positioning system to improve control of drilling operations.
- Job openings at Nortek
- In an effort to manage our continued growth, we have posted several important and exciting new job openings. The new people will complement our existing organization and help prepare us for our next leap as an independent oceanographic instrument manufacturer.
- International Sales (NOR)
- Part of Nortek’s success is the result of an excellent marketing and sales performance on the international market. To continue and further develop these activities, we look for a dynamic and open minded:
- Qmetrix BV changes its name to Nortek B.V.
- Our Dutch subsidiary Qmetrix B.V. changes its company name
