ULE.L Regulatory News (ULE)

19 May 2017

Ultra Electronics Holdings plc

("Ultra" or "the Group")

Ultra Electronics receives further AS9100 registration for aerospace quality management

Ultra Electronics announces that its Nuclear Sensors & Process Instrumentation (NSPI) business in Round Rock, Texas recently received its AS9100 registration. This international quality management standard recognises that Ultra Electronics has the necessary processes in place for the aerospace industry's demand for safe, reliable products that meet or exceed the requirements of customers and regulatory authorities.

As a registered AS9100 supplier, NSPI provides its aerospace customers with a competitive advantage by strengthening their supply chain as a mature designer and manufacturer of high quality and high reliability sensors. Ultra Electronics' focus on operational excellence and continuous improvement ensures less scrap and rework, better documentation, lower risk of product delivery disruptions, and a stronger focus on customer satisfaction.

Attainment of the AS9100 registration demonstrates Ultra Electronics' continued commitment to increasing customer satisfaction, lower costs and improved risk management across a growing number of aerospace subsystems and platforms.

Chris Brown, Director of Industrial Marketing at Ultra Electronics, commented:

"Ultra Electronics has served the market for decades with our Weed Instrument and Furnace Parts brand of sensors for use in mission-critical, harsh environment applications. Our aerospace customers were asking for AS9100 certification and we listened. Achieving this certification is an important milestone us. It demonstrates we've achieved the next step in maturing our excellent quality management system, and assures our aerospace customers they will receive the highest level of service in the development and delivery of reliable, high-performance sensors. The certification strengthens our relationships with existing commercial and military aerospace customers and positions us to pursue supply chain positions on new programs. It is an important part of our growth strategy over the next decade."

Enquiries:

David Matthews, Senior Market Application Specialist (512) 434-2840

sales@ultra-nspi.com

Susan McErlain, Corporate Affairs Director 07836 522 722

James White, MHP Communications 020 3128 8756

www.ultra-nspi.com 

Further information about Ultra:

Ultra Electronics is an internationally successful defence, security, transport and energy company with a long track record of development and growth. The Group manages a portfolio of specialist capabilities generating innovative solutions to customer needs. Ultra applies electronic and software technologies in demanding and critical environments ranging from military applications, through safety-critical devices in aircraft, to nuclear controls and sensor measurement. These capabilities have seen the Group's highly-differentiated products contributing to a large number of platforms and programmes.

Ultra has world-leading positions in many of its specialist capabilities and, as an independent, non-threatening partner, is able to support all of the main prime contractors in its sectors. As a result of such positioning, Ultra's systems, equipment or services are often mission or safety-critical to the successful operation of the platform to which they contribute. In turn, this mission-criticality secures Ultra's positions for the long-term which underpins the superior financial performance of the Group.

Ultra offers support to its customers through the design, delivery and support phases of a programme. Ultra businesses have a high degree of operational autonomy where the local management teams are empowered to devise and implement competitive strategies that reflect their expertise in their specific niches. The Group has a small head office and executive team that provide to the individual businesses the same agile, responsive support that they provide to customers, as well as formulating Ultra's overarching, corporate strategy.

Across the Group's three divisions, Ultra operates in the following eight market segments:

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