Demand for imaging helps double profits

A steady showing from its core business areas helped

, the developer and manufacturer of high-tech electronic components and sub-systems, to boost sales by almost 12 per cent and more than double its profits to £12m compared with 2005.

The company's three divisions — medical and science, aerospace and defence and commercial and industrial — all made a positive contribution to the results, with medical and science in particular recording a 34 per cent increase in sales to £21m. This came on the back of increasing demand for its imaging products, particularly the intra-oral X-ray dental sensor and L3Vision sensors for life sciences applications, said the company.

Although there was a drop-off in sales for aerospace and defence within the company's sensor division, e2v said it had confirmed its position as a key supplier to the Eurofighter Typhoon programme, with orders for solid-state sensors worth £2.5m and a contract to supply sensors for the second phase of the plane's Missile Approach Warning System.