Cable Detection Ltd is part of the Hexagon Machine Control Group. Manufacturing and servicing buried service location equipment is our sole focus. Using our in house expertise we are pushing the boundaries of the buried service location sector and discovering new ways to improve on traditional methods of underground data capture.
Cable Detection, located in Staffordshire (UK) has a customer base stretching right around the world. Our customers believe that we should let technology help us to reduce the risk of human error on-site by allowing advances in technology drive the products available to them.
Our History
Cable Detection’s history stretches back to over 125 years ago when it was originally founded in 1880 under the name of Hall Brothers. Manufacturing and servicing of surveying instruments was always the specialty of the company. In 2005 Cable Detection was became part of the Hexagon group of companies.
Hexagon AB is a global technology group with strong market positions in measurement technologies. Hexagon has more than 7 500 employees in 39 countries and net sales of about 12 000 MSEK. Hexagon's vision is to be number 1 or number two in each strategic business and the group's strategy is to be the most cost-efficient and innovative supplier.