Avingtrans signs deal to make airport scanner parts

15th Feb 2016 12:05

(ShareCast News) - AIM-listed Avingtrans said that it has signed a three-year £3.5m deal with Californian security screening specialist Rapiscan to provide parts for a new airport scanner.Avingtrans, which designs, makes and supplies critical components, modules and associated services to the aerospace, energy and medical sectors said the "new and ground-breaking" airport scanner, the RTT110 was also the first scanner to pass successfully the European Civil Aviation Conference's Standard 3 threat detection test for baggage-borne explosive risks.The standard will become compulsory for airports around the world by 2020, it added.Avingtrans added that Stainless Metalcraft, part of the Group's Energy and Medical division, had signed a £1m a year framework agreement with Switzerland's Bruker BioSpin.The agreement will see Stainless Metalcraft produce high integrity cryostat components for Bruker's Nuclear Magnetic Resonance systems (NMR).NMR spectroscopy complements other structural and analytical techniques, such as X-ray, crystallography and mass spectrometry and can be used alongside MRI related technology, to provide multidimensional images and spatially resolved information, Avingtrans said.Production will initially take place in the UK, before manufacturing transitions to Metalcraft's own established facility in Chengdu, China.