About Us

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Formed in 1984 and known for many years as Fibredata, OMC has evolved over the past two and a half decades into one of the most comprehensive suppliers of optical fibre assemblies, light-emitting diode backlights and custom optoelectronic solutions in Europe, devising and manufacturing solutions for the widest range of markets including major industrial, medical, instrumentation & consumer electronics.

Through the eighties and nineties the company established the brand name LED Technology™ for backlights and discrete LED components, as well as the Fibredata™ brand for fibre related products, pioneering a number of technologies such as the application of polymer and large core glass fibres in high voltage electrical distribution and winning the UK National Electronic Component Award for innovation in 1993 after the successful introduction of the company's range of LED backlighting solutions, product areas which, through ongoing product evolution, the company continues to lead to this day.

In order to more accurately reflect the company’s ever expanding range of activities and product lines and the increasingly international nature of the company's market, in April 2000 the company took its current name, The Optoelectronic Manufacturing Corporation, although Fibredata™ and LED Technology™ remain trademarks of the company.

The Redruth site, which occupies approximately 116,000 sq feet, remains dominant in the production of both glass and polymer optical fibre devices, assemblies, transmitters and receivers, edge-lit backlights, moulded and profiled lightguides and innovative custom optoelectronic parts. The company also offers a vast range of both pinned and surface-mount light-emitting diode components as well as LED displays, and maintains an extremely well-equipped R & D facility for the design and test of new developments and solutions.

In addition to data-communication, backlighting and indication components, OMC have introduced a range of high performance products designed for lighting applications, including high power light-emitting diodes and next generation surface-mount devices, as well as ‘building blocks’ such as sub-assemblies, drivers and controllers to facilitate the use of these high brightness devices in as wide a range of both industrial and architectural applications as possible, including large scale machinery, signage and both domestic and commercial lighting.

OMC has also recently introduced an exciting range of functional, low energy, extremely long-life finished LED lighting products aimed at replacing traditional lighting both for the commercial and domestic user.