Private company

Kelvin Hughes

Logo: kelvinhughes.com4

British company

Hensoldt UK, formerly Kelvin Hughes, is a British company specialising in the design and manufacture of navigation and surveillance systems and a supplier of navigational data to both the commercial marine and government marketplace. The company provides radar systems to navies, governments, coastlines, ports and VTS installations as well as radars for land based security and surveillance applications.2 It is part of Hensoldt AG.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1947Founded1
  • Industryweapons industry1
  • HeadquartersEnfield1
  • Websitewww.kelvinhughes.com
  • Legal formPrivate Limited Company3
  • LEI213800DQ9FVZ6OMKJH123
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)3
  • Registered addressVOLTAGE, EN3 7XQ Enfield, United Kingdom3
  • Registered withCompanies House, 010301353

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Photo: John Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

Hensoldt UK, formerly Kelvin Hughes, is a British company specialising in the design and manufacture of navigation and surveillance systems and a supplier of navigational data to both the commercial marine and government marketplace. The company provides radar systems to navies, governments, coastlines, ports and VTS installations as well as radars for land based security and surveillance applications.2

Corporate structure

Kelvin Hughes is part of a group headed by Hensoldt AG. 11 entities, 5 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Hensoldt AG Taufkirchen, Germany
    • Kelvin Hughes Enfield, United Kingdom
    • HENSOLDT AVIONICS GMBH Subsidiary · Pforzheim, Germany
    • HENSOLDT FRANCE SAS Subsidiary · Plaisir, France
    • HENSOLDT HOLDING GMBH Subsidiary · Taufkirchen, Germany
      • HENSOLDT HOLDING GERMANY GMBH Subsidiary · Taufkirchen, Germany
    • HENSOLDT OPTRONICS GMBH Subsidiary · Oberkochen, Germany
      • HENSOLDT SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD Subsidiary · Centurion, South Africa
    • HENSOLDT SENSORS GMBH Subsidiary · Taufkirchen, Germany
      • GEW TECHNOLOGIES Subsidiary · Pretoria, South Africa
    • HENSOLDT SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. Subsidiary · Singapore, Singapore

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Products and brands

  • depth gauge

Listed on Wikidata.1

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. Succeeded Hughes & Son1

Timeline

  1. 1947Founded Founded1

Sources

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