Tideland Signal Corporation – Commitment

Tideland Signal Corporation brings strength in people along with product innovation to provide complete Aids to Marine Navigation solutions meeting customer needs. We continually utilize new technologies to enhance the performance of traditional AtoN products, while conceiving, developing and manufacturing electronic aids to navigation. Our philosophy of ‘Quality First’ demands a close working relationship with our local, regional and global partners. Our dedication to this quality culture, whether in the form of a product of service, benefits our clients and assures the highest quality of aids to navigation in the world. This gives Tideland Signal Corporation a deep feeling of pride and helps to maintain our number one position in customer satisfaction.

Tideland was the first company to install Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) on buoys. The success with AIS led to Tideland opening a new division; Tideland Maritime Systems (TMS) in 2002. TMS, specializing in VTS and AIS related business, is building a client base with shore based monitoring stations with port and national clients. Teaming arrangements with a full range of partners allow us to provide our clients with a full range of port security solutions, from AIS only port displays to a full function VTIMS operations centers.

The Company has headquarters in Houston and offices in USA, Canada, Singapore, UAE and the United Kingdom with divisions dedicated to AtoN service in the Middle East, Offshore Oil and Gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico and buoy production in Canada, Asia, South America, England and the Middle East.

Since it inception, Tideland has led the world in many firsts, including:

World’s first transistorized, automatic lampchanger (1965)
World’s most efficient 300mm lantern (1967)
First windows based AtoN satellite monitoring system (1991)
The first solar powered rotating beacon of 24NM range (1990’s)
First Lloyd’s approved rotationally molded polyethylene buoy (1990’s)
One of the first Aids to Navigation companies to introduce LED’s (1990’s)
Production of the worlds lowest power Racon, the System 6 (2002)
First private light range tunnel, built according to IALA recommendations (2003)
19 US. and 29 foreign patents; (other patents pending)

Our dedicated team of scientists and engineers provides us with product innovations that allow Tideland to lead the industry with new, reliable, cost effective products.

In our more than 50 years history, Tideland Signal Corporation has provided equipment for hundred’s of thousands of installations with equipment operating in almost every country in the world.

Tideland Signal Corporation is a founding member of the IALA Industrial Members Committee, is accredited to ISO 9001:2000 and belongs to numerous professional and trade organizations associated with the maritime industry.

Tideland’s primary aim is to provide quality products at a competitive price.

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