AEL Crystals Ltd is located in Crawley, West Sussex. Incorperated by a management buyout in 1992 the company can trace its history back to 1945 and is the longest established company in this specialised market in the UK.
AEL employs a staff of 10 in the UK with a turnover of £5 million and holds over 4000 lines in stock.
AEL’s product range includes all Frequency Control products ranging from ultra high stability OCXO, TCXO, VCTCXO products through to low cost Ceramic Resonators. Saw, VCO, and high frequency Ceramic products are also supplied to fully complement the range of products.
Products are manufactured at AEL’s partnership factories in Japan, Taiwan and China where all products are produced to AEL’s technical and test specifications in QS9000 and ISO9000:2000 accredited production facilities.
The company specialises in Frequency Control products alone to offer the best service and focus to our customers. AEL offers full technical and design support ranging from initial specification discussions through to Final PCB matching whether on concept designs using leading edge products or established designs using basic Crystal or Ceramic Resonators.
Full parametric and environmental testing facilities are available in Crawley HQ, this is used predominantly for verification of incoming quality but is also available for customer investigation and fault finding, testing capacity is up to 5000 pieces per hour.
AEL supply to a diverse range of markets and customers globally, these include Telecommunications, Automotive, Audio Visual and Wireless with 60% of sales being outside the UK.
Logistics support ranging from JIT, Kanban, Buffer stocking, fixed price contracts to direct shipping for offshore customers are offered enabling customers to find the least problematic and most competitive solution to all of their Frequency Control requirements.