Sintela Limited
| ISIN | 🆔 |
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| Industry | Fibre-optic sensing |
| Founded 📆 | 16 October 2017[1] |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , |
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Key people | Magnus McEwen-King (CEO)[2] |
| Revenue🤑 | ~£15 million[3] (2021) |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 42 (2022[3]) |
| 🌐 Website | sintela |
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Sintela Limited is a United Kingdom-based company that develops fibre-optic sensing technology. Founded in 2017, the company is based in Bristol and has offices in Bristol, Dorchester, and the United States. It develops distributed fibre-sensing technology that is used for exploration and production in the oil industry, pipeline monitoring, railway and highway supervision, border and perimeter surveillance and for geoscience research.
History and leadership
Sintela was founded on 16 October, 2017[1] by Magnus McEwen-King and a group of four other co-founders, all of whom had worked together at QinetiQ, a defence contractor.[3] Initial funds were primarily self-financed.[3] According to The Times, Sintela made around £15 million in 2021, and sales had increased 2,800% over the previous four years.[3] In 2023, The Times ranked Sintela as the sixth-fastest growing company in the UK;[4] sales grew 231.4% from 2021 to 2023.[2] Sintela makes between 90%[2] and 95% of its revenue from exports,[3] and it manufactures products in the United Kingdom, United States, and India.[3]
In 2019, Austrian rail company Frauscher worked with Sintela to develop a DAS system for railways.[5] In 2022, Sintela announced a partnership with SLB to develop fibre-optic technology in the carbon capture and storage and geothermal industries.[6][7] In 2025, Sintela collaborated with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to develop a "first-of-its-kind" DAS system that can detect changes and disturbances on the seabed.[8][9]
Sintela has offices in England (Bristol and Dorchester) and the United States.[10] Its chief executive officer (CEO) is Magnus McEwen-King.[3] As of December 2022, the company employs 42 people.[3] Sintela also works in collaboration with other companies, including SLB and Sensonic. According to The Times, 350 people work in the partnership.[3]
Products
Sintela develops distributed fibre-sensing technology, which gives sensing function to fibre-optic cables.[3] According to The Times, Sintela technology is "used to monitor long, spread-out pieces of critical national infrastructure that require constant surveillance, including the US-Mexico border, oil pipelines and busy railway lines",[3] and to "track of the position of trains, identify damage to oil pipelines, and secure electricity pylons against metal theft".[2][11] In order to sell their product, Sintela partners with larger companies.[11]
In an experiment for Earth and Space Science, Onyx was used to examine the potential of DAS systems in planetary exploration.[12] In a study for Nature, Onyx was used to record strain among deployed undersea cables.[13]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Sintela Limited overview". gov.uk. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Sunday Times 100". The Sunday Times. June 30, 2023. Retrieved March 18, 2025.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 Wilson, Amy (28 December 2022). "Rising stars: three fast-growing manufacturers". The Times. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
- ↑ Tyler, Richard (29 June 2023). "100 fastest-growing companies in Britain 2023 revealed". The Times. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
- ↑ "New Era for Frauscher". Railway-News. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
- ↑ Evans, Morgan (11 April 2022). "Schlumberger, Sintela Co-Developing Upstream, Midstream CCS Solutions". Natural Gas Intel. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
- ↑ "Schlumberger, Sintela Plan To Spread Fiber-Optic Technology". Journal of Petroleum Technology. 4 April 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
- ↑ Nava, Raul (17 March 2025). "MBARI researchers deploy innovative new tech for seafloor monitoring". Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
- ↑ "New Geo-sense Seafloor Monitoring Technology Developed By MBARI". DeeperBlue. April 13, 2025. Retrieved August 22, 2025.
- ↑ Arthur, Andrew (21 November 2022). "South West tech firms named among the 50 fastest growing in UK". Business Live. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Tyler, Richard (29 June 2023). "What it's really like managing rapid growth". The Times. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
- ↑ Harmon, Nicholas; Porter, Ryan; Rychert, Catherine; Schmerr, Nicholas; Smith, Madison M.; Shen, Zhichao; Wu, Wenbo; Giles, Jacob; McCall, Naoma; Wang, Jingchuan; Wike, Linden; West, John; Hoyle, Austin; Deykes, Naya (2024). "Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Future Planetary Applications: Initial Results From the San Francisco Volcanic Field, a Lunar Analogue". Earth and Space Science. 11 (12): e2024EA003640. Bibcode:2024E&SS...1103640H. doi:10.1029/2024EA003640. PMC 11602534 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 39620052 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Gräff, Dominik; Lipovsky, Bradley Paul; Vieli, Andreas; Dachauer, Armin; Jackson, Rebecca; Farinotti, Daniel; Schmale, Julia; Ampuero, Jean-Paul; Berg, Eric; Dannowski, Anke; Kneib-Walter, Andrea; Köpfli, Manuela; Kopp, Heidrun; van der Loo, Enrico; Mata Flores, Daniel; Mercerat, Diego; Moser, Raphael; Sladen, Anthony; Walter, Fabian; Wasser, Diego; Welty, Ethan; Wetter, Selina; Williams, Ethan F. (August 2025). "Calving-driven fjord dynamics resolved by seafloor fibre sensing". Nature. 644 (8076): 404–412. Bibcode:2025Natur.644..404G. doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09347-7. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 12350177 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 40804151 Check|pmid=value (help).
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