About Us

Pioneers in Asphaltic & Unbound Materials Testing

Established in 1990, Cooper Technology is a British company and one of the world leaders in the design and manufacture of high performance testing equipment for asphaltic and unbound materials used in highway construction.

The Nottingham Asphalt Tester (NAT), designed in the 1980’s by our Chairman Keith Cooper whilst working at the University of Nottingham, was the first of its type. Since then our product range has increased steadily and now includes Gyratory Compactors and Roller Compactors to prepare and compact specimens in addition to Servo Hydraulic and Servo Pneumatic Universal Testers, Triaxial Testers, Fatigue Systems and Wheel Trackers to perform standards.

Why Choose Cooper?

GLOBAL SUPPLIER THAT IS LOCAL ENOUGH TO CARE...

As a customer focused business, we listen. The Cooper Technology approach is to first establish customer requirements and then to offer best advice on the options available in order that customers can make informed decisions. We pride ourselves on working in partnership with customers rather than just “order taking”.

Our consultative approach ensures that the application is fully understood before an order is accepted, thus ensuring the equipment ordered is fit for purpose and will deliver the expected results and reliably day after day and year after year.

DESIGN, DEVELOP, AUTOMATE, TEST...

Cooper Technology is much more than a manufacturer: all our machines are fully designed and developed by our dedicated in-house design team, all our engineers are degree educated in their relevant fields, and every engineering discipline is covered.

Mechanical Design
Via the use of 3D CAD packages we ensure our business is best positioned to utilise the most state-of-the-art geometrical modeling systems available. These systems further permit calculating customer specific solutions within the shortest possible time.

Electrical/Electronic Design
The team works according to the very latest norms in system technology. Our customers expect electronic products that have better quality, more flexibility and new features at a competitive price. To remain at the forefront of today’s market demands, we equip our design engineers with systems that deliver flexibility, high performance and reliability.

Software design
NI LabVIEW is our chosen solution: our highly trained professional users develop using this language. NI LabVIEW is a graphical development environment that combines the ease of use of configuration-based tools with the flexibility of a powerful programming language. It enables the programmer to quickly create user interfaces as well as perform advanced control, signal processing and analysis, communication and logging.

Hydraulic/ Pneumatic
Cooper engineers team up with global industry specialists to deliver a system that utilises the best possible solutions on the market today. Our servo Hydraulic/Pneumatic solutions have delivered reliably over the last 20 years, whilst being consistently refreshed in order to ensure the perfect interface with mechatronic solutions.

ACADEMIC LINKS...

Nottingham
Our heritage is one of close links with the pavement engineering department of Nottingham University. This department, now known as NTEC, has global recognition and is considered as being at the forefront of pavement research. Our longstanding relationship with Nottingham is today as strong as ever. The current KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) establishes our position at the cutting edge of unbound materials technology.

Standards Committees
Our expertise often plays a critical part in the development of new, and existing test standards. We are at the forefront of standard development, working closely with key decision makers worldwide and harnessing links with new related industries ensuring that practical solutions to everyday problems are achieved.

QUALITY ASSURANCE

When choosing Cooper Technology as your business partner, you are also selecting our international reputation for competence, integrity and innovation. Each item of equipment is subject to rigorous quality tests at every stage of its design and manufacture to ensure that we provide our customers with an outstanding product.

Quality is fundamental to our activity; it not only relates to the final product but extends also to the systems we employ. Our systems are internationally recognised via ISO 9001:2008. Our certified partner in helping us achieve this recognition is BSI (British Standards Institute). For over 100 years, BSI has led the way in developing the concept of standards and ensuring that they are relevant to your business. No other certification body can offer the expertise, knowledge and recognition that is associated with a BSI certificate.

BUSINESS AWARDS

Cooper Technology strikes again; after winning the EEF’s Future Manufacturing Business Growth Award 2010, becomes International Business of the year for Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Cooper was declared regional winner at the Roundhouse in Derby on the 26th of February 2010.

EMDA article published Dec 2009

UK Trade & Investment article published Dec 2009

Derby Telegraph article Award published March 2010

Derby Telegraph article Road to Success published March 2010

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