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NIC Instruments

Folkestone, United KingdomFounded 1955Industry

NIC Instruments is a Folkestone, Kent manufacturer of EOD and IEDD equipment, including hook-and-line sets, tool kits, search mirrors, manipulators and robots.

What it does

EOD equipmentdemining/UXOmetal detectionEOD tool kithook and line setmanipulator

Threats covered

improvised explosive devicesunexploded ordnance/landmines
Categories

Profile

NIC Instruments is a Folkestone manufacturer of EOD and IED search, bomb-disposal, mine-detection and mine-extraction equipment, including hook-and-line systems and robots. Its history begins in 1946 with two brothers making surgical and medical devices; their businesses merged in 1955 to form NIC Instruments, and Companies House records the limited company as incorporated on 24 December 1955 at Gladstone Road, Folkestone.

More profile

A distributor page presents it as a UK source of EOD and mine-action tools. No contracts, funding or ownership changes were found in the sources read.

Ownership

Privately held UK limited company; no parent identified

Parent: none identified

Sources (5)
Not verified or not found
  • Contracts, customers and funding: none found.
  • Persons with significant control: not read.
Questions

What does NIC Instruments do?

NIC Instruments is a Folkestone, Kent manufacturer of EOD and IEDD equipment, including hook-and-line sets, tool kits, search mirrors, manipulators and robots.

Where is NIC Instruments based?

HQ (as found): Folkestone. HQ country: GB.

Who owns NIC Instruments?

Privately held UK limited company; no parent identified. Parent: none identified

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