Cygnus Instruments celebrates 40 years in business
18/12/2023
In 2023, Cygnus Instruments is celebrating its 40th year in business, having been founded by George Edes in 1983.
Back in 1956, the future founder of Cygnus Instruments left his home country as a 12-year-old asylum-seeking refugee.
His parents told no one and sacrificed everything to give him, his siblings and his future children a better chance in life than what post-World War 2 (military-occupied) Hungary could offer.
George did not know he was heading to England, but once in the UK he took every opportunity open to him. He went on to complete a mathematics degree and became a commercial diver and a ship surveyor, which took him to Japan.
Around the age of 30, he closed a ship surveying business in Japan and headed back to the UK, with his wife, to start all over
again.
George created a new ship surveying business, Surtest Marine, and used it as a platform to develop pioneering ultrasonic thickness gauges. As soon as the products were proven, a new company called Cygnus Instruments was formed in 1983.
Sadly, George and his wife died in 1988. What followed was a series of turbulent chapters for the business. Their daughter, Lulu, joined Cygnus in 2005, determined to protect her father’s legacy. Those tough times are now in the company’s past, but appreciated because the team is strong-willed and passionate as a result.
40 years on and Cygnus Instruments is diversifying its product lines for wider industry use, strengthening its service and distribution offering worldwide, elevating the Cygnus brand and its customer experience and building even more robust and reliable equipment.
Today, the team at Cygnus forms a strong community and lives by the values that underpin the company culture. The company considers the founder’s legacy as a platform on which to build its own.
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