Challenger Solutions gets AS9100 approval

“Everyone gets ISO 9001,” Challenger business development manager Richard Hancock told Electronics Weekly. “AS9100 approval now allows us know to deal direct with aerospace OEM’s”

The firm is mid-sized, with 85 staff. “We are big enough to cope but small enough to care,” claimed Hancock. “We have resources to handle one-off prototypes to full scale production.”

Based in South Woodham Ferrers, manufacturing services including surface-mount and through-hole assembly, box build, test, inspection – the latter including x-ray and automated optical.

Founded in 1994, the firm list aerospace, defence, oil, gas, communications, automotive and industrial as its target markets.