About Fire Testing Technology

Vision and Mission

Vision

Fire Testing Technology’s vision is to provide the best solutions to help our customers reduce loss due to fire.

Mission

Fire Testing Technology’s mission is to give a professional world-wide service that is committed to continuous product development, incorporating innovative solutions and resulting in a better user experience and great products.

Values

Ambitious

To be the best in all aspects of our business.

Committed

To deliver on the needs and desires of our Customers and invest in people, to develop and evolve them, to exceed expectation.

Excellence

Constantly developing the solutions that we offer and strive to provide our Customers with the best possible services we can.

1989

FTT was founded by instrument engineer Stephen Upton and fire scientist Stephen Grayson.

1993

FTT introduced their first generation cone calorimeter. This cone calorimeter was an affordable option, in comparison to what was currently on offer in the industry. This addition opened up the market, allowing a wider group of researches to be able to access the technology.

1998

FTT acquired the fire instrumentation side of the business under the trade name Stanton Redcroft. By 1998 FTT were seen as the global supplier of Calorimeters, NBS Smoke Chambers and Oxygen Indexes and were producing more than 40 different fire test instruments.

FTT’s products offered the full range of equipment required to undertake the fire testing work needed for the European Construction Products Regulation.

2005

Judges Scientific plc, listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange (“AIM”), heads a group dedicated to growth in the scientific instruments sector both through a “buy and build” strategy and organic growth. Formed towards the end of 2002 with a different business model in mind, the company made its first foray into the world of scientific instruments in May 2005 with the acquisition of Fire Testing Technology. The directors identified scientific instruments as a sector in which the United Kingdom could justly boast of being a global centre of excellence. With a large number of privately-owned companies created by entrepreneurial scientists and engineers, the Judges management team recognised the sector as being ripe for consolidation. Since the FTT acquisition, a further 14 businesses have been brought into the Judges family of companies in furtherance of its strategic aims.