Tideland Signal
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| Type | Rock Hill Capital |
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| Founded | 1954 |
| Headquarters | Houston, Texas, United States |
| Key people | Matt Scheuing (President) |
| Products | Navigational aids |
| Owner(s) | Rock Hill Capital |
| Website | www.tidelandsignal.com |
Tideland Signal Corporation states it is the world’s leading manufacturer of marine aids-to-navigation. Their web site provides information on many firsts:
- World’s first transistorized, automatic lampchanger (1965)
- World’s most efficient 300mm lantern (1967)
- First windows based AtoN satellite monitoring system (1991)
- The first solar powered rotating beacon of 24NM range (1990’s)
- First Lloyd’s approved rotationally molded polyethylene buoy (1990’s)
- One of the first Aids to Navigation companies to introduce LED’s (1990’s)
- Production of the world’s lowest power Racon, the System 6 (2002)
- First private light range tunnel, built according to IALA recommendations (2003)
- First polyethylene buoy with enhanced current design features (2005)
- First 30 degree vertical divergence LED lantern (2011)
- Combined RACON and AIS unit with patent pending (2012)
- 20 US. and 29 foreign patents; (other patents pending)
Tideland is a founding member of the IALA Industrial Members Committee, is accredited to ISO 9001:2008 and belongs to numerous professional and trade organizations associated with the maritime industry.
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