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A2 About Alsigns

Alsigns (Best-Surelite) Self-Powered Ltd) has a long established business relationship with mb-microtec ag supplying not only Traser watches to the UK market but also safety signs and equipment.

Asigns has been in the energy-free light source industry for over twenty years, supplying luminous borosilicate glass products for EXIT signs and other advisory or warning artefacts as well as emergency escape units for the shipping industry, aircraft, submarines and the building services industry.

Alsigns currently employs 34 staff and their dedication, experience and excellence has been marked out in the firm's output throughout its spheres and markets world-wide.

Douglas Williams (FSRS, FIOP, FCA) has been the Chief Executive Officer of Alsigns ever since its inception in 1982 (as Surelite Ltd.). He and his father (George Williams) began a fire laboratory in Cheshire in 1962 called Warrington Research Centre [later Warrington Fire Research Centre] which attained recognition by the Fire Research Station (Boreham Wood), the British Standards Institution and others as a centre of excellence and by the building industry as the core tester, researcher and certifier of building products world-wide.

Once a consultant to UKAEA/BNFL, Douglas travelled widely in Australia, Canada, Africa and the UK in connection with nuclear matters and industry which consolidated his field experience in design solutions at construction sites. He later formed hazard evaluation connections and in association with UCLA (California USA), founded the Safety and Reliability Society Limited (SARS) in Southport, England [now in Manchester]. The Society is prominent in "big-bang" hazard analysis and Douglas remains a founder fellow of the Society.

Douglas Williams has lectured at Bristol, Cranfield and Bradford Universities and is the former Chairman of Technology Transfer Services Ltd through a joint holding with that university. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Petroleum and has been accepted as an affiliate member of the Chartered Institute of Mechanical Engineers. Further, he is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and has served in his own businesses continuously throughout his career.

Contact Douglas Williams at Alsigns.

ALSIGNS is also the umbrella company for Surelite Ltd and certain other fellow organisations that manufacture self-powered lighting products created by a combination of the hydrogen light industry and the mechanical engineering industry. These innovative lighting systems make a significant contribution to the saving of energy as they are not dependent on fossil fuels (ie. they are not electricity-based or battery-powered) but are instead a "clean" system based on the use of tritium gas (also known as "hydrogen 3" or H3 technology).

Robert E. Chapman (B.Sc) has been the Managing Director of Alsigns Ltd since 1995. Robert joined the company in 1995 in the post of Research Consultant (Hydrogen Light Technology) and Company Secretary, having previously pursued a career in the chemical industry at Albright & Wilson Limited in Whitehaven, Cumbria, where he worked as a technical sales chemist and then as a patents information officer in the Business Studies Unit of the company.

Robert Chapman has lectured in computer studies at Uxbridge and Slough. Currently he is head of management and carries the responsibilities of overseeing compliance under the requirements of the applicable Radiological and Data Protection regulations as well as supervising the legislative provisions and their applicability to Health and Safety.

Contact Bob Chapman at Alsigns.