Company activity
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Design, development and manufacturing of mail processing and sortation equipment.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Video Coding System (VCS) hardware and software.
Material handling automation integration
Project management
Systems integration
Service and support
Turnkey integration
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Locations
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SOLYSTIC is headquartered in Gentilly (France). The production facility is in Bourg-Lès-Valence (France). SOLYSTIC has offices in Kontich (Belgium) and Shanghai (China). Its parent company Northrop Grumman A&IS is based in Baltimore (USA). Find the driving directions here.
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Our clients
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Postal operators
(International) mail consolidators
(Express) parcel operators
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Our market segments
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Outgoing mail sorting automation (letters & flat mail)
Incoming mail sorting automation (letters & flat mail)
Automated sequencing of mail (letters & flat mail)
Turnkey project management, design and integration of mail and parcel sorting centres :
• National mail processing networks
• International mail processing facilities
• Express delivery sortation / distribution centres
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Our policies
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SOLYSTIC's QUALITY POLICY
SOLYTIC's ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
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Ownership
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SOLYSTIC
is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation
and integrated within the Automation and Information Division
(A&IS) of Northrop Grumman's Electronic Systems sector.
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History
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SOLYSTIC is home to the engineering, manufacturing, project management and logistic support personnel who have been providing state-of-the-art postal automation for half a century. This history resulted in SOLYSTIC equipment being installed in more than 25 countries around the world.
SOLYSTIC mail sorting equipment includes the ELIT, COSMOS, STAR and MARS letter sorters, the TOP (AFSM-100) Flat Sorting Machine (the most widely fielded flat sorting machine) and the TOP 2000 (the most advanced flat sorting machine). SOLYSTIC was a pioneer in the development of OCR/VCS address recognition technology.
We are proud of our history and will continue to lead the industry in developing technologies for quality high performance automation at affordable pricing.
In addition to this, our ISIS information systems and “turnkey” global solutions enhance our proposal.
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Organisation chart
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Northrop Grumman Automation and Information Systems (A&IS) Division
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Northrop
Grumman Electronic Systems Automation and Information
Systems Division provides advanced integrated systems
for sorting and delivering mail and parcels and improving
material handling efficiency in government (postal), commercial
and industrial facilities
A&IS has been a supplier of USPS automation for more than 15 years. A&IS has delivered nearly 4000 systems including barcode sorters, scan-while-you-band systems, input and output subsystems, stamp vending machines and most recently the Automated Flat Sorting Machine 100.
A&IS also delivers industrial material handling systems for commercial client parcel sortation and distribution centres. The reference list includes UPS, FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, and Airborne Express.
A&IS is a business unit of Northrop Grumman Corporation Electronic Systems. The Electronic Systems sector realised estimated sales of $6 billion in 2004.
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About Northrop Grumman
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Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), headquatered in Los Angeles, Calif., with expected 2004 revenues of $29.9 billion, is a global aerospace and defense company providing high technology, innovative products, services and solutions for its U.S. and international military, government and commercial customers. The company has 125,000 employees and operations in 44 states and 25 countries. For corporate information: www.northropgrumman.com.
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