Fiberguide Industries has launched a newly redesigned website to assist customers with product selection. The new website, streamlines visitors' access to updated specifications and application notes on the company's full line of optical fibres and fibre assemblies.

Visitors to the site can review technical specifications, including power handling requirements and mechanical data on silica and buffer materials, to help select the right optical fibre. A new applications notes page contains case studies that review a variety of previous photonics challenges and how they were solved.

Fiberguide Industries manufactures a comprehensive line of standard and custom high optical transmission fibres and ultra-precision arrays. The company is a subsidiary of the global technology group Halma p.l.c., which also includes photonics specialists Ocean Optics, a leader in spectroscopy and optical thin films, and Labsphere, a recognized expert in the light metrology field. Registered by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a Contract Manufacturer and Custom Device Manufacturer, Fiberguide's corporate and optical fibre manufacturing facilities are located in Stirling, New Jersey, with a manufacturing/assembly facility in Caldwell, Idaho.

Halma p.l.c., is an international market leader in safety, health and sensor technology. Halma's subsidiaries make products that protect lives and improve the quality of life for people through innovation in market leading products which make its customers safer, more competitive and more profitable. These subsidiaries are assisting India's economy in areas such as manufacturing, energy, water and waste treatment, the environment, construction, transport and health.

Mr Kuniyur J. Srinivasan, Country Head & Managing Director, Halma India, Mumbai. Tel: 022-67080400. Fax: 91-22-67080405. Email: Srini@halma.com