Looking for Allgood Technology – the SMT assembly specialists?

Sorry but we have now retired and no longer provide assembly services.

I started Allgood Technology Ltd with my wife, 35 years ago in little more than a shed alongside Scotland’s Loch Ness.   I had been a Design Engineer with British Telecom Research & Development for 13 years and I had this mad notion of creating “an engineer’s prototype and small volume assembly shop” specialising in the then emerging Surface Mount Technology first encountered in the 1980s in the high-speed optical transmission systems I was helping to design.   I thought my design side experience that most contact assemblers lacked would mean we could really understand our customers’ problems, aiming to work with them, not just for them.  I am pleased to say this certainly has been the case.

Starting up in the Highlands was born out of a desire to live where we had holidayed many times (we are from Birmingham) and to prove a point that with modern carriers, location wasn’t a barrier to doing business and we did end up with customers in every part of the UK and even Europe.  In reality, starting a business meant we never had time to enjoy the location but it appealed to visitors!  Nessie kept her head down all the time we were there (she’s not real you know but don’t tell the Tourist Board….).

We relocated back to our Midlands home in 1996 and the business took off employing a range of fantastic staff most of whom we trained in house and who grew to become the most accomplished of assembly persons capable of the most exacting work.  They all deserve a mention but special thanks go to the pioneers: Morag, Christine, Brian, Leigh, Nicky, Julie, Amy, Hannah and Yasmin and so many others.

Of course, without customers we would have been going nowhere and we have been so lucky to work with (not just for!) companies of all sizes from one man and a dog (sometimes not even a dog) right up to multinationals on a huge and diverse variety of projects with applications quite literally from beneath the sea bed to the edge of space and everywhere in between.  We built parts for Oil well telemetry, safety systems for the Concorde aircraft, mixing desks for world famous music artists, machines to count money in banks and emergency vehicle dataloggers.  My background was telecoms of course but the variety of customers’ applications was wonderful for me to be involved in just from a personal interest point. 

But time waits for no man as they say and after 35 years, we weren’t getting any younger so when a few health issues started to appear we decided it was probably time to hang up the soldering irons and smell some Roses as a change from flux…….

But I can’t let it all go totally, at least not yet - I have amassed a lot of knowledge that might help others so I am considering a consultancy role or some way of getting involved with STEM education, see if I can give something back and encourage the next generation. I’ve recently reactivated a lifelong interest in Ham radio so am enjoying that again (callsign G8RXZ, mainly on HF and about to learn Morse!) 

If you want to get in touch, please feel free to email any questions on peter@allgoodtechnology.com which will remain my email for the foreseeable future.   

If you would like to remind yourself of our good old days and see what we did and who we did it for, please click HERE for the old website:  https://www.allgoodtechnology.com/index_final.html

(Please Note the landline phone no longer works and we have vacated the premises in Hortonwood).

Would I do it again?  Absolutely!  There are many things I would do differently and I probably should have been bolder (I never did get the helicopter!) but then again, many companies much bigger than us came and went while we kept soldiering on (or soldering on I suppose).    It’s been a heck of a ride but “Je ne regret rien”.   

Thanks again and best of luck with your projects.

Peter Allgood, Allgood Technology Ltd – 1990 - 2025