Sole agents for MTL & Beka (since the 1970s) in Southern Africa offering hazardous area expertise including Intrinsic Safety. In July 2013, Extech signed agreements as Southern African agents for Extronics, XploreTech and MercuryHMI. In 2016 Extech signed with AEGEx for Zone 1 tablet. CorDEX was added in 2017 for Exd camera & thermal imaging products. In 2018 agreement was reached with i.safe Mobile in Germany to sell their i.safe mobile devices. These agencies complement each other enabling Extech to offer a more diverse product range of hazardous area products and a comprehensive solution for hazardous area networking / IIoT.

Haz Expertise is a sister company to Extech for supply of hazardous area products to SA & Rest of Africa. I set up a UK based supply chain company to Extech & ROA.

AGL is a new adventure for me with Angus & Luke to do business in UK/EuropeAGL Automation Ltd was formed in 2020 by Angus McCarter, Gary Friend and Luke Thomas with the simple aim of providing process automation solutions into specialised environments such as Hazardous, Harsh, Cleanroom and Biotech.As 3 engineers with decades of varied experience behind us we decided to setup a business to provide not only the appropriate hardware and software but also the technical know how to best fit your application. Our Business is focussed on the UK&Ireland with personnel located right across the UK. We are looking for partnerships & niches where we can add valueOur Current product portfolio includes the following products and is costantly expanding: Clean Room GMP compliant HMI's ATEX rated HMI's ATEX rated remote monitoring GSM Camera's ATEX rated mobile phones ATEX rated Bluetooth ear defendersFor more information please take a look at our website.

Started as a Design Engineer on MTL7000, managed technical support worldwide for 4 years before moving back into development to run MTL4500 project.