Spectris develops and markets productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls. The company had sales of £1,230.8 million in 2012 and employs around 7,600 people worldwide. Spectris is listed on the London Stock Exchange (symbol – SXS) and is a member of techMARK, the London Stock Exchange’s index for technology companies, and the FTSE4Good index of socially-responsible companies. Customer Benefits Spectris products help customers to speed up processes, save time, cut waste, and improve accuracy. Everything that we do is about making technology more productive, giving our customers a competitive edge. We enhance productivity. Examples of typical benefits to the customer include: Semiconductor manufacturer saved $6m per month from contamination monitoring Automotive component processing cut from 3.5 hours to 6 minutes with UV curing Coating thickness reduced by 30%, and application costs by 20%, with particle measurement instrumentation Product variation of glass fibre reduced by